Islamic land tax - Al-Kharaj : from the Islamic conquests to the 'Abbasid period

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
Subjects:
Land value taxation (Islamic law) > History > To 1500

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