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Early Islamic Institutions - Administration and Taxation from the Caliphate to the Umayyads and Abbasids (Paperback)
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Early Islamic Institutions - Administration and Taxation from the Caliphate to the Umayyads and Abbasids (Paperback)
Series: Contemporary Arab Scholarship in the Social Sciences
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The rapid expansion of the early Islamic world is conventionally
ascribed to a combination of perceptive military leadership and
religious fervour. By looking at the administration and taxation
which would be implemented by political rulers, Abd al-Aziz Duri
demonstrates how these leaders were able to provide for growth,
development and durability in a turbulent time, as well as
efficient mechanisms for taxation and tax collection. Drawing on
original research into the fiscal policies of this period,
especially land tax and the tax on non-Muslim populations, Duri
shows how different models evolved and renewed themselves. He
examines the political systems that accompanied these fiscal
regimes, and attitudes towards them. He also scrutinises the
institutions which supported this remarkably coherent mode of
governance, offering a new perspective on the relationship between
politics and Islam in this formative period. By looking at these
early Islamic institutions, Duri makes the argument that due to
persistence of such organization, from the early Muslim conquests
and the later Umayyad era to the end of 'Abbasid rule, the leaders
of the time can be seen to be particularly politically and
organizationally skilled. Duri's work makes a major contribution to
our understanding of how Islam established itself and flourished as
a lasting major force in the development of world history. Abd
al-Aziz Duri (1919-2010) was Professor of History at the University
of Jordan, having previously served as President of Baghdad
University from 1963 to 1968. Among the most influential of his
books on early Islam are The Economic History of Iraq in the Fourth
Century AH (1948), An Introduction to the History of the Dawn of
Islam (1949), and The Early Abbasid Period (1988), as well as
treatises on Arab nationalism such as The Historical Roots of Arab
Nationalism (1960) and The Historical Formation of the Arab nation:
A Study in Identity and Consciousness (1987).
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