340 khaled fahmy © Koninklijke Brill BV, Leiden, 1999 Die Welt des Islams 39, 3 THE POLICE AND THE PEOPLE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY EGYPT BY KHALED FAHMY New York In the summer of 1817 Me ¥ med { Al " , Governor of Egypt for twelve years, appointed a new market inspector ( mu ¥ tasib ) for Cairo. Exasperated by repeated reports of irregularities and fraud in the markets of Cairo and frustrated by his previous mu ¥ tasib 's inability to impose law and order he is reported to have said, "I have extended my authority to lands far
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