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...

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...

adult men. The jizya amount could also be vary with the income of the individual. However, according to Shibli Nomani, the word jizya is an Arabicised...

special tax called Jizya from non-Muslims (dhimmi), who are not liable to pay Zaka'at, who live in a Muslim state. Historically, the jizya tax has been understood...

tax and acknowledging Muslim rule. Dhimmis were also required to pay the jizya. The Rashidun caliphs had placed special emphasis on relatively fair and...

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...

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...

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...

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...

in Vadnagar, Vishalnagar and Ahmadabad. Raj Singh protested against the Jizya tax levied by Aurangzeb. Raj Singh opposed Aurangzeb multiple times, once...

under Ottoman law in exchange for loyalty to the state and payment of the jizya tax. Non-Muslim Ottoman subjects faced geographic and lifestyle restrictions...

they were required to pay higher taxes than Muslim subjects, including the jizya, which was a key source of state revenue. Many Christians and Jews converted...

exempt from certain duties specifically assigned to Muslims if they paid the jizya poll tax, but otherwise equal under the laws of property, contract, and...

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and Christians were required to pay the jizya while pagans were either required to accept Islam, pay the jizya, be exiled, or be killed, depending on which...

the Muslim poor and needy. It was a tax collected by the Islamic state. jizya - a per capita yearly tax historically levied by Islamic states on certain...

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Umayyad and Abbasid rule. Christians and Jews were often obligated to pay the jizya, or poll tax levied on non-Muslims. During the 980s, the Fatimid Caliphate...

taxes affecting all of his subjects. In 1679, Aurangzeb chose to re-impose jizya, a military tax on non-Muslim subjects in lieu of military service, after...

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their own religion, in return for paying a special head tax called the jizya. The Quran uses the term in a variety of contexts, from religious polemics...

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...

subject to Jizya tax and with a list of restrictions. Early Sultans of the Delhi Sultanate exempted the Brahmins from having to pay Jizya, thus dividing...

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though kafir able-bodied adult males with income were obliged to pay the jizya, which signified their status as dhimmis. Akbar, the Mughal emperor Humayun's...

large-scale conversion from Christianity to Islam, motivated in part by a jizya tax for those who refused to convert. Islam became the faith of the majority...

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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of jizya over the conversion to Islam is a major economic motivator. Hindus and Buddhists who were classified as Dhimmis had to pay mandatory Jizya instead...

the jizya relates to the belittlement of the Disbelievers, whether that is by virtue of paying the jizya or expressed in the manner in which the jizya is...