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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Main Author: Katbi, Ghaida Khazna (Author)
Corporate Author: Markaz Dirasat al-Wahdah al-'Arabiyah (Beirut, Lebanon)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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
Series:Contemporary Arab scholarship in the social sciences vol. 6
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index 
505 0 |a 1. Systemisation of taxes under 'Umar bin al -Khattab -- 2. Tax measures under the Umayyads -- 3. Taxation under the 'Abbasids -- 4. The administration and systemisation of taxes -- 5. The beginnings and development of the Sawafi -- 6. The legal foundations of the Kharaj -- 7. survey and analysis of sources 
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650 0 |a Land value taxation (Islamic law)   |x History   |y To 1500 
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