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‖ zakat|zaˈkɑt| Also zakah, zakkat, † zecchat. [Pers. zakāt, Turk. zekât, etc., ad. Arab. zakāh.] An obligatory tax payable annually under Islamic law on certain kinds of property in order to raise money for charitable and religious objects.
1802J. Pinkerton Mod. Geogr. I. 452 [Turkey.] This revenue is partly derived from..the zecchat. 1875Bellew & 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. 1957Ld. Hailey African Survey 1956 x. 671 In Mauretania those who are not liable to zakkat pay the personal tax and in addition a capitation fee on every animal. 1960C. Geertz Religion of Java x. 123 The fifth pillar [of Islam] is the zakah, the religious tax. 1979Observer 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. |