An iqta (Arabic: اقطاع, romanized: iqṭāʿ) and occasionally iqtaʿa (Arabic: اقطاعة) was an Islamic practice of tax farming that became common in Muslim...

provisioning them through confiscated iqtaʿat (akin to fiefs; singular iqtaʿ) from his predecessors' emirs. He created a loyal paramilitary apparatus...

Iltutmish rose to prominence in Aibak's service, and was granted the important iqta' of Badaun. His military actions against the Khokhar rebels in 1205–1206...

Sultanate, belonging to the Mamluk dynasty (Slave Dynasty). He introduced IQTA (Tax, revenue) system. Died in 1236 1211–1215 Anangabhima Deva III of the...

Baghdad. According to the history of Miskawayh, they began distributing iqtas (fiefs in the form of tax farms) to their supporters. This period of localized...

again. Razia treated him leniently; she took away the iqta of Lahore from him, but assigned him the iqta of Multan, which Iltutmish had assigned to Ikhtiyaruddin...

established to receive an extensive iqtâ’, or land grant, from the ‘Alâwî sultan Mûlây Rashîd b. Muhammad. The iqtâ’ extended from upstream of present...

over 20,000 men. The head of Iqtas were known by different names, such as Hakim, Faujdar, or Momin. These head of Iqtas had their own bodies of men, which...

Mazalim Officials Robe of honour and tiraz Shurta Vizier Financial administration Diwan Iqta' Kharaj Military Abna al-dawla Ghilman Battles Commanders Wars...

nobles. The lands of vassals were called fiefs. A similar system is the Iqta‘, used by medieval Islamic societies of the middle east and north Africa...