单词 | zakat |
释义 | zakatn. An obligatory tax payable annually under Islamic law on certain kinds of property in order to raise money for charitable and religious objects. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > types of tax > [noun] > property tax > specific indiction1586 top-annual1597 zakat1802 premium1859 betterment tax1869 1802 J. Pinkerton Mod. Geogr. I. 452 [Turkey.] This revenue is partly derived from..the zecchat. 1875 Bellew & Chapman in T. D. Forsyth Rep. Mission to Yarkund ii. 103 The zakát is a Mahommedan tax... It is one part in forty of all live-stock, and of merchandise entering the country. 1957 W. M. Hailey Afr. Surv. (rev. ed.) x. 671 In Mauretania those who are not liable to zakkat pay the personal tax and in addition a capitation fee on every animal. 1960 C. Geertz Modjokuto x. 123 The fifth pillar [of Islam] is the zakah, the religious tax. 1979 Observer 4 Mar. 12/3 Their principal objection was to ‘zakat’, a partly-compulsory Islamic welfare tax which General Zia proposes to introduce in July. According to Shi-ism zakat has to be an individual act of conscience and can never be levied compulsorily by the State, he said. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1802 |
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