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The Sasanian Empire had a general tax on land and a poll tax having several rates based on wealth, with an exemption for aristocracy. [186] In Iraq , which was conquered mainly by force, Arabs controlled taxation through local administrators, keeping the graded poll tax, and likely increasing its rates to 1, 2 and 4 dinars. [ 186 ]
ushr - a 10% tax on the harvests of irrigated land and 10% tax on harvest from rain-watered land and 5% on Land dependent on well water. [6] The term has also been used for a 10% tax on merchandise imported from states that taxed the Muslims on their products. [7] Caliph `Umar ibn Al-Khattāb was the first Muslim ruler to levy ushr. [citation ...
Around 46 privately owned television channels were permitted by the Government of Bangladesh as of 2023, [1] of which thirty-six are currently on air. Six television channels, namely STV-US, CSB News, Channel 1, Diganta Television, Islamic TV, and Channel 16, have been taken off air. Bangladesh has four state-owned television stations, of which ...
Some Islamic modernists emphasize the moral prohibition on exploiting the needy, defining riba not as interest on all loans, but only "exploitive" loans, including: [35] [Note 5] Loans for consumption not investment: [36] [37] investment loan interest is allowed, since such loans were allegedly unknown in Mohammed's time, and by their nature ...
Other forms of taxation on Muslims or non-Muslims, that have been used in Islamic history, include kharaj (land tax), [95] khums (tax on booty and loot seized from non-Muslims, sudden wealth), [96] ushur (tax at state border, sea port, and each city border on goods movement, customs), [97] kari (house tax) [98] and chari (sometimes called maara ...
The Islamic finance equivalent of a conventional call option (where the buyer has the right but not the obligation to buy in the future at a preset price, and so will make a profit if the price of the underlying asset rises above the preset price) are known as an urbun (down-payment) sale where the buyer has the right to cancel the sale by ...
Muslims of Bangladesh are predominant native Bengali Muslims. The majority of Bangladeshis are Sunni, and follow the Hanafi school of Fiqh. Bangladesh is a de facto secular country. [5] [6] The Bengal region was a supreme power of the medieval Islamic East. [7]
24-hour television news channels in Bangladesh (8 P) B. ... Channel S (Bangladeshi TV channel) CSB News; D. DBC News; ... (Bangladesh) Islamic TV; J.