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 - Contemporary Arab Scholarship in the Social Sciences

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Publisher's Synopsis

In this exhaustive survey of the institution of al-kharaj - land tax in Islam - Ghaida Khazna Katbi provides a comprehensive and minutely detailed history of a practice which evolved from an exigency of conquest into an essental pillar of the early Islamic state.

Book information

ISBN: 9781848850637
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Imprint: I. B. Tauris
Pub date:
DEWEY: 340.5909
DEWEY edition: 22
Number of pages: 410
Weight: 796g
Height: 240mm
Width: 166mm
Spine width: 38mm