Al-itawah

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Definition of "Al-itawah"

Originally, a due imposed on foreign traders in return for protection or a tax paid by strangers and all such Arabs whom no alliance had attached to the Qurashite clans. It was paid in money and did not take into account the value of the land. In the later usage it became a gross amount that was paid according to an agreement.


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