Mutaqabbil

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Definition of "Mutaqabbil"

One who undertakes the contract of qibalah or tax-farming, in which a contractor pays the ruler an agreed amount, collects taxes from the people and retains the difference. In modern parlance, it was privatization of tax collection. It was a tyrannical system. See al-qibalah.


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