Al-nawa’ib

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Definition of "Al-nawa’ib"

Lit: Calamity, misfortune. Tech: Taxes imposed to meet any emergency arising out of some natural calamity. Also used for irregular levies of Muslim states imposed collectively on the people anywhere. Jurists opposed these levies, but they were in vogue during medieval Islam.


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