Islamic taxes information

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 poor and needy.^[1]^[2] It was a tax collected by the Islamic state.
jizya - a per capita yearly tax historically levied by Islamic states on certain non-Muslim subjects—dhimmis—permanently residing in Muslim lands under Islamic law, the tax excluded the poor, women, children and the elderly.^[1]^[3]^[4]^[5] (see below)
kharaj - a land tax initially imposed only on non-Muslims but soon after mandated for Muslims as well.^[1]
ushr - a 10% tax on the harvests of irrigated land and 10% tax on harvest from rain-watered land and 5% on Land dependent on well water.^[2] The term has also been used for a 10% tax on merchandise imported from states that taxed the Muslims on their products.^[6] Caliph `Umar ibn Al-Khattāb was the first Muslim ruler to levy ushr.^{[citation needed]}

The taxes stipulated by Islamic law generally did not generate enough revenue even for the limited expenditures made by pre-modern governments, and rulers were forced to impose additional taxes, which were condemned by the ulema.^[7]

According to scholar Murat Çizakça, only zakat, jizya and kharaj are mentioned in the Buktasira.^[8]^{[clarification needed]}

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Böwering, Gerhard, ed. (2013). The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought. Princeton University Press. p. 545. ISBN 978-0691134840.
^ ^a ^b Nasr, Seyyed Vali Reza (2001). Islamic Leviathan : Islam and the Making of State Power: Islam and the .... Oxford University Press. p. 144. Retrieved 11 September 2014. islamic taxes.
^ Abdel-Haleem, Muhammad (8 Sep 2010). Understanding the Qur'ān: Themes and Style. I. B. Tauris & Co Ltd. pp. 70, 79. ISBN 978-1845117894.
^ Abou Al-Fadl, Khaled (2002). The Place of Tolerance in Islam. Beacon Press. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-8070-0229-2. . When the Qur'an was revealed, it was common inside and outside of Arabia to levy poll taxes against alien groups. Building upon the historical practice, classical Muslim jurists argued that the poll tax is money collected by the Islamic polity from non-Muslims in return for the protection of the Muslim state. If the Muslim state was incapable of extending such protection to non-Muslims, it was not supposed to levy a poll tax.
^ Jizyah The Oxford Dictionary of Islam (2010), Oxford University Press, Quote = Jizyah: Compensation. Poll tax levied on non-Muslims as a form of tribute and in exchange for an exemption from military service, based on Quran 9:29.
^ Fauzia, Amelia (21 February 2013). Faith and the State: A History of Islamic Philanthropy in Indonesia. BRILL. p. 78. ISBN 978-9004233973. Retrieved 11 September 2014.
^ Patricia Crone (2013). "Traditional political thought". In Böwering, Gerhard (ed.). The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought. Princeton University Press (Kindle edition). p. 557.
^ Çizakça, Murat (2011). Islamic Capitalism and Finance: Origins, Evolution and the Future. Edward Elgar Publishing. p. 162. ISBN 9780857931481.

[PEIT-1] Böwering, Gerhard, ed. (2013). The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought. Princeton University Press. p. 545. ISBN 978-0691134840.

[Nasr-2] Nasr, Seyyed Vali Reza (2001). Islamic Leviathan : Islam and the Making of State Power: Islam and the .... Oxford University Press. p. 144. Retrieved 11 September 2014. islamic taxes.

[Abdel-Haleem2010-3] Abdel-Haleem, Muhammad (8 Sep 2010). Understanding the Qur'ān: Themes and Style. I. B. Tauris & Co Ltd. pp. 70, 79. ISBN 978-1845117894.

[4] Abou Al-Fadl, Khaled (2002). The Place of Tolerance in Islam. Beacon Press. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-8070-0229-2. . When the Qur'an was revealed, it was common inside and outside of Arabia to levy poll taxes against alien groups. Building upon the historical practice, classical Muslim jurists argued that the poll tax is money collected by the Islamic polity from non-Muslims in return for the protection of the Muslim state. If the Muslim state was incapable of extending such protection to non-Muslims, it was not supposed to levy a poll tax.

[5] Jizyah The Oxford Dictionary of Islam (2010), Oxford University Press, Quote = Jizyah: Compensation. Poll tax levied on non-Muslims as a form of tribute and in exchange for an exemption from military service, based on Quran 9:29.

[6] Fauzia, Amelia (21 February 2013). Faith and the State: A History of Islamic Philanthropy in Indonesia. BRILL. p. 78. ISBN 978-9004233973. Retrieved 11 September 2014.

[7] Patricia Crone (2013). "Traditional political thought". In Böwering, Gerhard (ed.). The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought. Princeton University Press (Kindle edition). p. 557.

[future-8] Çizakça, Murat (2011). Islamic Capitalism and Finance: Origins, Evolution and the Future. Edward Elgar Publishing. p. 162. ISBN 9780857931481.

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