ePub Budismo para principiantes / Buddhism for Beginners (Spanish Edition) by Thubten Chodron in History

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This book deals with the evolution of Islamic state and society from the 10th to the 14th centuries; focusing on the history of the Arab society under the iqṭā' (allocated tax revenue) system. The book offers a well documented study of the system with its use of hitherto unpublished Arabic manuscripts. The introductory chapter deals with the historical origins of the iqṭā' system; while chapters that follow discuss the history of the system in Iraq; Syria and Egypt; including systematic studies on the rural life and peasantry in Egypt. State and Rural Society in Medieval Islam is the first thorough; book-length study to show how this system may explain various historical phenomena in medieval Islam. The iqṭā' system now can be seen as a system with a comprehensive life of its own.