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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| 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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Table of Contents:
- 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