 | Jason Goodwin - History - 2003 - 372 pages
...reform: 'Hitherto the Osmanley paid nothing to the government beyond a moderate land-tax, although liable to extortions, which might be classed with assessed taxes. He paid no tithe, the vacouf [vakif] suff1cing for the maintenance of the ministers of Islam. He travelled where... | |
 | Anthony Pagden - History - 2008 - 576 pages
...officer who visited Turkey many times in the 18305, had this to say of the impact of Mahmud Us reforms: Hitherto the Osmanley has enjoyed by custom some of...with assessed taxes. He paid no tithes, the vacouf [lands let on lease] sufficing for the ministers of Islamism. He traveled where he pleased without... | |
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Hitherto the Osmanley has enjoyed by custom some of the dearest privileges of freemen, for which Christian nations have so long struggled. He paid nothing to the government beyond a moderate land-tax, although liable, it is true, to extortions, which... 