Conversion and the Poll Tax in Early Islam. By Daniel C. DennettJr. Harvard Historical Monograph No. XXII, 1950. pp. xi, 136, including bibliography and index. 16s.

1951 ◽  
Vol 83 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 220-220
Author(s):  
J. N. D. Anderson
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Speculum ◽  
1952 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 214-215
Author(s):  
Richard N. Frye
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1952 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-87
Author(s):  
G. E. von Grunebaum
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2005 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 401-441 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chase Robinson

AbstractArabic and Syriac sources for early Islam, especially for seventh- and eighth-century Syria and Iraq, describe the use of neck sealings in the administration of the poll tax, which was levied upon non-Muslims. This article evaluates the relevant literary, historical and material evidence, including some surviving sealings, and proposes that at origin, neck-sealing related to other stigmatizing practices, and was principally symbolic and punitive. Des texts arabes et syriques, particulièrement originaires de la Syrie et de l'Iraq des septième et huitième siècles, décrivent l'usage des sceaux en pendentif pour l'application de la capitation qui était imposée aux non-musulmans. Cet article étudie les sources littéraires, historiques et archéologiques, y compris des sceaux qui nous restent, et suggère que à l'origine, les sceaux étaient liés à d'autres pratiques discriminatives/stigmatisantes, et étaient avant tout symboliques et punitives.


Author(s):  
Arezou Azad

Covering the period from 709 to 871, this chapter traces the initial conversion of Afghanistan from Zoroastrianism and Buddhism to Islam. Highlighting the differential developments in four regions of Afghanistan, it discusses the very earliest history of Afghan Islam both as a religion and as a political system in the form of a caliphate.  The chapter draws on under-utilized sources, such as fourth to eighth century Bactrian documents from Tukharistan and medieval Arabic and Persian histories of Balkh, Herat and Sistan. In so doing, it offers a paradigm shift in the way early Islam is understood by arguing that it did not arrive in Afghanistan as a finished product, but instead grew out of Afghanistan’s multi-religious context. Through fusions with Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, early Abrahamic traditions, and local cult practices, the Islam that resulted was less an Arab Islam that was imported wholesale than a patchwork of various cultural practices.


2018 ◽  
pp. 356-358
Author(s):  
Oleg I. Mariskin

The review on the book: Kirillov A. K. From the Poll Tax to Income Tax: Tax Reforms of Capitalistic Russia and Their Implementation in Western Siberia in the second half of the XIX – early XX century. Novosibirsk, 2017, 178 p.


Aleph ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 17-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard R. Goldstein
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