Social Supervision in Islam

This paper aims to redefine the social supervision and control in Islam as one of the most important ways of preventing deviations and abnormalities based on Islamic social worlds which include real world, contemporaries’ world (Umwelt), ancestors’ world (Vorwelt), and non-material world. Using Islamic resources (Quran and Hadith), this paper demonstrates four areas of Islamic society especially intangible area. According to the definition of social worlds in Islamic society, there will be a new definition for concepts such as norm, audiences (deviants), executive guarantees, and social control agents. The above mentioned worlds are generalized into the intangible elements and even their tangible elements are redefined in new ways. This kind of attitude would improve the efficiency of the social supervision and control in Islamic society.