"This tax fell only upon non-Moslems capable of military service; it was not levied upon monks, women, adolescents, slaves, the old, crippled, blind or very poor. In return the Dhimmi were excused (or excluded) from military service, were exempted from the two and a half per cent tax for community charity, and received the protection of the government."
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