Tax Disruption in the Later Umayyad Period as a Ground Force for the ‘Abbāsid Revolution

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Tax Disruption in the Later Umayyad Period as a Ground Force for the ‘Abbāsid Revolution

Journal Title: Sakarya Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi - Year 2018, Vol 20, Issue 37

Abstract

The Umayyad Empire (661-747 CE), the first dynasty of Islam, reigned nearly ninety years after the so-called Rāshidūn era, was collapsed by the ʿAbbāsid Revolution (AR). After 750, the ʿAbbāsids became the new rulers of the Islamic empire through the culmination of an orchestrated secret campaign lasting more than thirty years and based on popular unfavourable views of the Umayyads. Although extensive research has been carried out on the AR, there have been no studies which try to understand the AR with reference to modern economic and Revolution theories by focusing upon the economic dissatisfaction of the Khurāsānī mawālī who supported the Revolution. The aim of this paper is to discuss the theory that economic disorder in Khurāsān was an important reason for the AR, by focusing on the taxation system in Islam and its abuse in the later Umayyad period (685-747) as well as by evaluating modern Islamic historiography in this perspective.

Authors and Affiliations

Öznur ÖZDEMİR

Keywords

Zakāt ʿUshr Jizya Kharāj ʿAbbāsid Revolution Modern Islamic Historiography

EP ID EP478264
DOI 10.17335/sakaifd.354578
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