The jizya and the dhimmis: regime, rights and truces

Islamic Fiqh > Penalties (hudud) > The jizya and the dhimmis: regime, rights and truces

The jizya (status, amounts, modalities), the rights and duties of the dhimmis, their transactions, their places of worship, and the truces (muhadana) concluded by the imam.

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