Les communautés juives du Maghreb central à lumière des fatwā-s mālikites de la fin du Moyen Âge

Lex alterius: Using Law to Construct Confessional Boundaries

“…The jizya was not systematically levied either in seventh-century Egypt or in ninth-century Sicily (Nef 2013). Fifteenth-century Tlemcen mufti Qāsim al-'Uqbānī was asked whether the jizya is to be imposed on all Jews or only those who live in the cities; as one might expect, he affirmed the principle that it applied to all male Jews who lived as dhimmīs under the protection of Muslim rulers: but the very fact that the question was raised suggests that rural Jews were often in practice exempted from paying (Voguet 2013).…”