Question

What is the jaziya tax?

Answer 1

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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 in order to fund public expenditures of the state, in place of the Zakat and Khums that Muslims are obliged to pay

Answer 2

Answer:

jaziya was a tax imposed on muslims by mughal rulers.

it was removed by albar, but was later imposed by aurangzeb again