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A comparison between pre-Islamic documents and those of the Islamic period reveals that conquering Arabs increased the land taxation without exception. Thus, raising taxes of each acre of wheat field to four dirhams and each acre of barley field to two dirhams, whereas during reign of
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in 717 brought the finances of the Umayyads to the brink of collapse. Even before Sulayman's ascent to power, the powerful governor of Iraq,
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was also used as a general term describing all kinds of taxes: for example, the classic treatise on taxation by the 9th century jurist
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and denoted a lump-sum duty levied upon the lands of conquered provinces, which was collected by hold-over officials of the defeated
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was paid could not be transferred to Muslims; instead, they could lease such land, but in that case they would be required to pay
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was a reciprocal 10% levy on agricultural land as well as merchandise imported from states that taxed Muslims on their products.
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Cummings, John Thomas; Askari, Hossein; Mustafa, Ahmad. "Islam and Modern Economic Change" in Esposito, 1980, pp. 25–47
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Melis, Nicola, "Lo statuto giuridico degli ebrei dell'Impero Ottomano", in M. Contu – N. Melis - G. Pinna (a cura di),
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was levied on most land without regard for the cultivator's religion. The reforms of Umar II were finalized under the
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it used to be a single dirham for each acre of wheat or barley field. During the later stage of the
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refers to a land-tax levied by Muslim rulers on their non-Muslim subjects, collectively known as
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and would thereafter form the model of tax systems in the Islamic state. From that time on,
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Landlord and Peasant in Persia: A Study of Land Tenure and Land Revenue Administration
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20th-century Russian orientalist, A. Yu. Yakubovski, compares the land tax system of
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Poliak, A. N. "Classification of Lands in the Islamic Law and Its Technical Terms".
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Cooper, Richard S. "The Assessment and Collection of Kharaj Tax in Medieval Egypt",
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from it. With the passage of time, the practical result of that reform was that
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worked out a compromise in which, beginning from 719, land from which
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Melis, Nicola, "Il concetto di ğihād", in P. Manduchi (a cura di),
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The First Dynasty of Islam: The Umayyad Caliphate AD 661-750
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Changes soon eroded the established tax base of the early
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Trattato sulla guerra. Il Kitāb al-ğihād di Molla Hüsrev
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The Institute of Ismaili Studies, Glossary H-K (kharaj)
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The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought
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on land, which carried a lower rate of taxation, and
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