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Posted at Apr 30/2009 01:27AM:
Laura: Iqta is defined by Kennedy as "assignment to an individual of right to collect taxes from an area or community, usually in exchange for military service."The development of the iqta system was in the first half of the tenth century and was established to relieve the state treasury when insufficient tax revenue made it difficult for the government to pay army salaries. Therefore, the iqtas were essentially areas of land where the soldiers could collect the revenue directly.