Scholars, Spice Traders, and Sultans: Arguing over the Alms-Tax in the Mamluk Era
Abstract Amidst the politics of the Mamluk-era spice route, why did the standard-bearers of Islamic law routinely oppose the sultanate’s imposition of an alms-tax on merchandise (zakāt al-tijāra), despite the abundance of support for such a tax within the classical tradition of Islamic law? Rather t...
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| Language: | English |
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Brill
2020
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Islamic law and society
Year: 2020, Volume: 27, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 53-82 |
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Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
B Commentaries B commercial law B Moral economy B Ibn al-Ḥājj B Ibn al-Humām B al-Nawawī B mercantile capitalism |
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