An iqta (Arabic: اقطاع, romanized: iqṭāʿ) and occasionally iqtaʿa (Arabic: اقطاعة) was an Islamic practice of tax farming that became common in Muslim...
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Mamluk Sultanate (section Iqtaʿ system)
provisioning them through confiscated iqtaʿat (akin to fiefs; singular iqtaʿ) from his predecessors' emirs. He created a loyal paramilitary apparatus...
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again. Razia treated him leniently; she took away the iqta of Lahore from him, but assigned him the iqta of Multan, which Iltutmish had assigned to Ikhtiyaruddin...
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from raids ceased and soldiers turned to iqta as a source of income. Gradually, the soldiers turned their iqta lands into independent ownerships and grew...
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formed out of the area referred to in the Ottoman sources as the Iqta of Turabay. This iqta consisted of the nahiyas (subdistricts) of Atlit and Marj Bani...
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who was a hand-maid of Turkic origin. As a prince, he was assigned the iqta' of Badaun in 1228. He administered Badaun with the support of Ainul Mulk...
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exact nature of this assignment is not clear: Minhaj describes it as an iqta', Fakhr-i Mudabbir calls it a "command" (sipahsalari), and Hasan Nizami states...
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around Wasit, and was granted Governorship of the region of Wasit as an ıqta. In alliance with the troops of the Caliphate, they defeated Dubays at the...
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Baghdad. According to the history of Miskawayh, they began distributing iqtas (fiefs in the form of tax farms) to their supporters. This period of localized...
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Amir al-ʿarab (section Incorporation into iqtaʿ system)
al-ʿarab as an "iqtaʿ iʿtidād (fief of reliance). This status officially precluded the Bedouin from the military service required of iqtaʿ-holders, indicating...
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Sultanate, belonging to the Mamluk dynasty (Slave Dynasty). He introduced IQTA (Tax, revenue) system. Died in 1236 1211–1215 Anangabhima Deva III of the...
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Mazalim Officials Robe of honour and tiraz Shurta Vizier Financial administration Diwan Iqta' Kharaj Military Abna al-dawla Ghilman Battles Commanders Wars...
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Amir-i-Majlis (chief of protocol), and granted him the iqta' of Multan. In c. 1310, Alauddin granted Alp Khan the iqta' of Gujarat. The Jain works praise Alp Khan...
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nobles. The lands of vassals were called fiefs. A similar system is the Iqta‘, used by medieval Islamic societies of the middle east and north Africa...
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themselves vassals to the king. Agricultural production was regulated by the iqta, a Muslim system of land ownership and payments roughly (though far from...
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by appointing family members and Muslim aristocracy as na'ib (نائب) of Iqta' (farming provinces, اقطاع) under contract. The contract would require that...
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Mazalim Officials Robe of honour and tiraz Shurta Vizier Financial administration Diwan Iqta' Kharaj Military Abna al-dawla Ghilman Battles Commanders Wars...
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over 20,000 men. The head of Iqtas were known by different names, such as Hakim, Faujdar, or Momin. These head of Iqtas had their own bodies of men, which...
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Caliph himself was reduced to the role of a figurehead. The reliance on the Iqta system also ate into Fatimid central authority, as more and more the military...
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biographer ibn Abd al-Zahir reported that he was granting Assassin lands in iqtâ' to his generals, and in 1265 began to tax the "gifts" the Assassins received...
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Mahmud was later honoured with the iqta of Kashamandi for his gallantry in Tarain. After the death of his uncle, the iqta was passed to Bakhtiyar. However...
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independence. Malikshāh was the one who moved the capital from Ray to Isfahan. The Iqta military system and the Nizāmīyyah University at Baghdad were established...
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children and women who took possession of the Iqta of their forebears, were to be deprived of their Iqtas and compensated with the money required to sustain...
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of majority or died. The Seljuks adopted and strengthened the traditional iqta' system of the administration of state revenues. This system secured the...
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equipped. The basis of the military system in the Islamic Middle East was the iqta' system of fiefs, which supported a certain number of troops in every district...
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brother Toghrul II, and transferred Arran to his nephew's possession as iqta in 1136. Eldiguz eventually married Mu’mina Khatun, the widow of Toghril...
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Mazalim Officials Robe of honour and tiraz Shurta Vizier Financial administration Diwan Iqta' Kharaj Military Abna al-dawla Ghilman Battles Commanders Wars...
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the Lajjun Sanjak (Lajjun District). The sanjak was officially called the Iqta (Fief) of Turabay until 1559 when it became officially known as the Lajjun...
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From the 10th century, masters would distribute tax farming land grants (Iqta) to the ghilman to support their slave armies. The Buyids and likely the...
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