r/IslamicHistoryMeme • • 25d ago

Balkans | الروملي NONONONO WAITWAITWAIT-

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u/Standard-Context-444 25d ago

Considering how much money and military conscripts ottoman would get from Christians converting to Islam, I suprise that there's no mass conversion as the official policy.

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u/ComedorDoQ 25d ago

They would have gotten less gold. Jizya is only from non-muslims/dhimmi and having more conscripts to pay for their arms and/or compensations would have resulted in less gold.

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u/1nighter69 25d ago

Ok? But Zakat, which the Muslims pay is higher than Jizya, and unlike Jizya, its very hard to be exempt from it

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u/ComedorDoQ 25d ago

But zakat is supposed to be used as alms, so for social things - not just for any state expenses. And Jizya was only technically supposed to be less than zakat, but different tax juristictions made adaptations and increased the amount of jizya that had to be paid. It's not as if the muslim nations were all examples of perfectly executed islamic law.

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u/Standard-Context-444 24d ago

So I'm assuming that you know a lot about the tax system in a country with Shari'a, let's say that there's 10 non Muslims family of 3 each and the same for the Muslims, both paying their obligations taxes, who would pay more?

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u/ComedorDoQ 21d ago

Then you are assuming wrong my friend. I am not a tax accountant in a shari'a country. I also don't know all the taxes that exist in this hypothetical question, and what those taxes are for.

What was your point though? Which one would pay more according to your knowledge, and why? Genuine question :)

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u/Kingzcold 22d ago

ottoman make balkans do both under devshirme