Question

Define the terms :
(i) Iqta
(ii) Jaziya
(iii) Chronicles
(iv) Travelogue
(v) Regent

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Answer 1

Answer:

1. Iqta‘ was an Islamic practice of tax farming that became common in Muslim Asia during the Buyid dynasty. The prominent Orientalist Claude Cahen described the Iqta‘ as follows: a form of administrative grant, often translated by the European word "fief
2. Jizya or jizyah is a per capita yearly taxation historically levied in the form of financial charge on permanent non-Muslim subjects of a state governed by Islamic law.
3. Chronicles are the predecessors of modern "time lines" rather than analytical histories. They represent accounts, in prose or verse, of local or distant events over a considerable period of time, both the lifetime of the individual chronicler and often those of several subsequent continuators.
4. A travelogue is a film, book written up from a travel diary, or illustrated talk describing the experiences of and places visited by traveller. American writer Paul Theroux has published many works of travel literature, the first success being The Great Railway Bazaar.
5. a person who governs a kingdom in the minority, absence, or disability of the sovereign. ; a person who rules or reigns : governor ; a member of a governing board (as of a state university).

Answer 2

Answer:

Iqta‘ was an Islamic practice of tax farming that became common in Muslim Asia during the Buyid dynasty. The prominent Orientalist Claude Cahen described the Iqta‘ as follows: a form of administrative grant, often translated by the European word "fief

Jizya or jizyah is a per capita yearly taxation historically levied in the form of financial charge on permanent non-Muslim subjects of a state governed by Islamic law.

Chronicles are the predecessors of modern "time lines" rather than analytical histories. They represent accounts, in prose or verse, of local or distant events over a considerable period of time, both the lifetime of the individual chronicler and often those of several subsequent continuators.

A travelogue is a film, book written up from a travel diary, or illustrated talk describing the experiences of and places visited by traveller. American writer Paul Theroux has published many works of travel literature, the first success being The Great Railway Bazaar.

a person who governs a kingdom in the minority, absence, or disability of the sovereign. ; a person who rules or reigns : governor ; a member of a governing board (as of a state university).