Aleppo Shariah Authority prevents entry of Flour to areas dominated by Assad

  Aleppo's Shariah Authority has issued recently a circular prevents the entry of  Flour material to areas still under the Assad control by officials who are in charge of the granaries and also for traders, Any violation will be subject to penalty.

As Syria’s civil war enters its third year, the rebels are struggling to figure out how to govern the large swaths of territory they have seized. In Aleppo, which has no unified rebel command and is riven by factions, the job hasn’t been easy: The city has two rival legal systems, each controlling its own terrain and backed by different militias, NYtimes reported from Aleppo last month.

 Many members of the Shariah Authority come from the countryside or have ties to the petty bourgeoisie in the cities — socially conservative Sunni traders and merchants. The members of the Integrated Judicial Council, on the other hand, are all part of the urban professional class and were relatively privileged by their relationship with the government prior to the war, NYtimes reported from Aleppo last month.

And so the question isn’t so much whether Islam will play a central role in postwar Syria: That matter has already been decided by the insurgents’ almost unanimously Sunni character and increasingly religious cast.

Eqtsad is Zaman Alwasl Business newspaper