Islamic land tax - Al-Kharaj : from the Islamic conquests to the 'Abbasid period
Surveys the institution of al-Kharaj - land tax in Islam. This title provides a comprehensive history of a practice which evolved from an exigency of conquest into an essential pillar of the early Islamic state. It presents a documented statistical analysis of the historical materials for various re...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York : New York :
I. B. Tauris, in association with the Centre for Arab Unity Studies ; Distributed in the U.S. and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan ,
c2010
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| Series: | Contemporary Arab scholarship in the social sciences
vol. 6 |
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| Summary: | Surveys the institution of al-Kharaj - land tax in Islam. This title provides a comprehensive history of a practice which evolved from an exigency of conquest into an essential pillar of the early Islamic state. It presents a documented statistical analysis of the historical materials for various regions of the early Islamic world |
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| Physical Description: | xviii, 410 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1848850638 (hardback : alk. paper) 9781848850637 (hardback : alk. paper) |