‘And he was asked about the monks…’
Date: Unknown
Original Language: Arabic
Description
This brief fatwa on the legal status of monks living as dhimmīs under Muslim rule takes up five pages in MF xxviii, pp. 659-63. The fatwa inquirer asks whether monks who circulate freely among the populace, engaging in business and agriculture, are subject to the jizya tax levied on dhimmīs. In response, Ibn Taymiyya turns to the instruction of the first caliph, Abū Ba…