Edward William Lane Quotes:
Ocupation: Translator
Life: September 17, 1801 - August 10, 1876
Birthday: September 17
Death: August 10
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.
source: "An Arabic-English Lexicon". Book by Edward William Lane, Book I Part II, Jizya, p. 422, 1865.
topic: Taken, Government, Islam, Compact
