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6 - Taxation

The Collection of the Shammar and Anizah Duties

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 July 2021

M. Talha Çiçek
Affiliation:
Istanbul Medeniyet University
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Chapter 6 examines the imperial practice of tax collection among the desert societies. Bedouin taxes could be collected with the consent and cooperation of their sheikhs. The chapter starts with an analysis of how coercive methods of tax collection failed to exact the nomadic duties and how the sheikhs played a crucial role in the process. Sheikhs persuaded their followers of the necessity of paying a moderate tax to the government, which demonstrates the role of the sheikh as agent of the empire. Although the tax was moderate, the great number of tribal animals made the amount a remarkable contribution to the provincial treasuries. The sheikly collaboration was in return for a quearter share of the collected taxes.

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Negotiating Empire in the Middle East
Ottomans and Arab Nomads in the Modern Era, 1840–1914
, pp. 201 - 229
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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  • Taxation
  • M. Talha Çiçek
  • Book: Negotiating Empire in the Middle East
  • Online publication: 08 July 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108993852.007
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  • Taxation
  • M. Talha Çiçek
  • Book: Negotiating Empire in the Middle East
  • Online publication: 08 July 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108993852.007
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  • Taxation
  • M. Talha Çiçek
  • Book: Negotiating Empire in the Middle East
  • Online publication: 08 July 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108993852.007
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