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Jizya (Arabic: جِزْيَة, romanized:
jizya), or jizyah, is a type of
taxation historically levied on non-Muslim
subjects of a
state governed by
Islamic law...
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freedom of religion, in
exchange for
loyalty to the
state and
payment of the
jizya tax, in
contrast to the zakat, or
obligatory alms, paid by the
Muslim subjects...
- abled-bodied
adult men. The
jizya amount could also vary with the
income of the individual. However,
according to
Shibli Nomani, the word
jizya is an Arabicised...
- Qur'an’s
verses about the
Jizya.
These verses give the idea of the
Jizya as an act of
humiliation and
ethnic diversion. The
Jizya used to be a
tribute required...
- practicality, the
jizya replaced the
Sasanian poll taxes,
which tended to be much
higher than the
jizya. In
addition to the
jizya, the old
Sasanian land...
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exempt from
certain duties specifically ****igned to
Muslims if they paid the
jizya poll tax, but
otherwise equal under the laws of property, contract, and...
- he was able to
force some of the
local chiefs to
accept his rule and pay
jizya. A
group under Khalid ibn
Walid that he sent for a raid also
managed to...
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under Ottoman law in
exchange for
loyalty to the
state and
payment of the
jizya tax.
Orthodox Christians were the
largest non-Muslim group. With the rise...
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anything more than land tax,
while the term
jizya was
restricted to the poll-tax on dhimmis. The
influence of
jizya on
conversion has been a
subject of scholarly...
- and Jews were
allowed to
practice their own
religion but had to pay the
jizya (poll tax) from
which Muslims were exempt.
Muslims were
required to pay...
