10-12-2010, 05:40 PM
[quote name='HareKrishna' date='12 October 2010 - 08:38 PM' timestamp='1286895647' post='108837']
After the Norman conquest of Sicily, taxes imposed on the Muslim minority, were also called the "jizya"
In practise however, the Jizya levied on non-Muslims was normally far larger than the Zakat tax on Muslims. Some evidence suggests that the Jizya was typically double the Zakat; for example, the Hedaya, an Islamic legal text, declared it lawful to require twice as much of a Zimmee [dhimmi] as of a Mussulman [Muslim]." Refusing to pay both Zakat and Jizya are crimes subjected to imprisonment and punishment
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Zakat was 3% tax, Jaziya was 30% tax
After the Norman conquest of Sicily, taxes imposed on the Muslim minority, were also called the "jizya"
In practise however, the Jizya levied on non-Muslims was normally far larger than the Zakat tax on Muslims. Some evidence suggests that the Jizya was typically double the Zakat; for example, the Hedaya, an Islamic legal text, declared it lawful to require twice as much of a Zimmee [dhimmi] as of a Mussulman [Muslim]." Refusing to pay both Zakat and Jizya are crimes subjected to imprisonment and punishment
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Zakat was 3% tax, Jaziya was 30% tax