GVPT 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Jizya, Shia Islam

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Government and Politics
• Course: GVPT 200
• Professor: Calvert Jones

Document Summary

Euphrates river: the de facto is capital, raqqa, sits on the euphrates, boys under the age of 15 attend special camps to learn about islam and islamic. State doctrine; those 16 and over receive military training: some fighters give roman salutes while pledging allegiance to abu bakr al- Courts settle mundane personal disputes as well as crimes. All rulings are informed exclusively by quranic interpretations: non-muslims, such as christians, are (theoretically) allowed to continue practicing with certain restrictions. For example, christians that choose to not convert to islam, they must pay a special tax called a jizya: despite the above agreement, most christians (~30,000) in raqqa fled once is took the city, their churches destroyed. The islamic state often converts non-muslim houses of worship into mosques and islamic centers: shi"ite muslims are targeted as heretics (the islamic state is a sunni group). Their mosques are destroyed in is-controlled cities: the punishment for most minor crimes is flogging.