Edward William Lane Quotes

• The tax that is taken from the free non-Muslim subjects of a Muslim government whereby they ratify the compact that assures them protection, as though it were compensation for not being slain.

  Edward William Lane

  Taken, Government, Islam

  "An Arabic-English Lexicon". Book by Edward William Lane, Book I Part II, Jizya, p. 422, 1865.

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