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Islamic taxes are taxes sanctioned by Islamic law. [1] They are based on both "the legal status of taxable land" and on "the communal or religious status of the taxpayer". [1] Islamic taxes include zakat - one of the five pillars of Islam. Only imposed on Muslims, it is generally described as a 2.5% tax on savings to be donated to the Muslim ...
Khums is the first Islamic tax, which was imposed in 2 AH/624 CE, [a] after the Battle of Badr. [3] It is separate from other Islamic taxes [ b ] such as zakat and jizya . [ 5 ] [ 6 ] It is treated differently in Sunni and Shia Islam ; key topics of debate include the types of wealth subject to khums, the methods of its collection and ...
After the Norman conquest of Sicily, taxes imposed on the Muslim minority were also called the jizya (locally spelled gisia). [215] This poll tax was a continuation of the jizya imposed on non-Muslims in the Emirate of Sicily and Bari by Islamic rulers of southern Italy, before the Norman conquest. [215]
Islamic law and custom prohibited the enslavement of free dhimmis within lands under Islamic rule. [76] Taxation from the perspective of dhimmis who came under the Muslim rule, was "a concrete continuation of the taxes paid to earlier regimes" [77] (but much lower under the Muslim rule [78] [79]).
An iqta (Arabic: إقطاع, romanized: iqṭāʿ) and occasionally iqtaʿa (Arabic: إقطاعة) [1] was an Islamic practice of tax farming that became common in Muslim Asia during the Buyid dynasty. Iqta has been defined in Nizam-al-Mulk's Siyasatnama. Administrators of an Iqta were known as muqti or wali.
(Zakat purifies the wealth of a Muslim, (according to Surah At-Tawba, Ayat 60 in the Quran [5]), and several a hadith.) In Pakistan Zakat is levied on sahib-e-nisab , i.e. a person who owns or possesses assets liable to Zakat under Shariah equal to or more than nisab , (about US $300, calculated according to the value of 612.32 grams of silver ...
Beneficiaries of zakat include orphans, widowed, poor muslims, debt-ridden, travelers, zakat collectors, new converts to Islam, Islamic clergy. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Zakat is prescribed to cleanse the individual's wealth , heart, and baser characteristics in general, and to replace them with virtues.
The reforms of Umar II were finalized under the Abbasids and would thereafter form the model of tax systems in the Islamic state. [3] From that time on, kharaj was also used as a general term describing all kinds of taxes: for example, the classic treatise on taxation by the 9th century jurist Abu Yusuf was called Kitab al-Kharaj , i.e.