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chap. xi.] tributes of other districts.
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The districts of the Tigris, together, paid 8,500,000
dirhems.
Kufah with its environs belonged in 358 a.h ., when Ibn tax paid by
Haukal visited this city, to the diwan of Baghdad, and paid u a '
30,000,000 dirhems a year as kheraj. Under Maimun, the
kheraj amounted to 37,780,000 dirhems, and there were,
besides, 14,800,000 dirhems of other duties.
Basrah paid in the same year (358) 6,000,000 dirhems.
According to Ibn Khaldun, the country between Basrah
and Kufah paid to Maimun 10,700,000.
Hirah, when first conquered by Khaled, paid 80,000 dir
hems land tax ; and the male inhabitants amounted to 7000,
of whom 6000 paid the capitation tax.
The tribute of all the Sowad, at the time of the Khosroes By the Sowad,
Kobad, amounted to 150,000,000 dirhems; at the time of &c '
Omar ben Khattab, to 120,000,000 dirhems; in the reign of
Abd-ullah ben Said, to 135,000,000 dirhems; under Hejaj
ben Yusuf, to 18,000,000 dirhems, into which do not enter
100,000,000 which were raised illegally; under Omar ben
Abd-el-Aziz, the province paid 124,000,000 or 120,000,000
dirhems ; under Ibn Hobeira, 100,000,000 dirhems; and
under Yusuf ben Omar, 170,000,000 dirhems. Abu Yusuf
(fol. 18, recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. ) states, that the kheraj of the Sowad did not
amount to more than 1,000,000 dirhems previously to the
death of Omar ben Khattab, but this must be a fault of the
transcriber.
Holwan, 30,000,000 dirhems, and 12 slave boys: or, by
another account, 4,800,000 dirhems. 1
Rai, 10,000,000 dirhems: or 12,000,000 dirhems, and
20,000 rotls (pounds) of clarified honey. 1
Kumis, 1,170,000 dirhems: or 4,500,000 dirhems, and
1000 plates of silver. 1
Jorjan, 10,170,000 dirhems: or 12,000,000 dirhems, and
1000 balls of silk. 1
1 Ibn Khaldun.—(MS. of the British Museum, 9514, fol. 162, verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. .)
From this author the second numbers are taken as often as there are two
accounts of the taxes of a district; whilst the first, and generally those which
have no second numbers, are given on the authority of Ibn Khordahbeh.
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