mazut (English spelling)

Japanese: māzūt(英語表記)mazut
mazut (English spelling)

...The Arab conquerors did not touch the rural communities under their control, and their sole objective was to collect taxes (khāraj, jizya, etc.). In the early Islamic period, the Coptic village chiefs, the mazūts of Egypt and the dihqāns, local lords in Iraq and Iran, were responsible for allocating and collecting taxes as local leaders. However, from around the 8th century, as Arabs became landowners and settled in the villages, and as bureaucratic tax collection systems were established, these village chiefs gradually lost their status as local notables, and instead Arab village chiefs called shaykhs came to control the village society.

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "māzūt" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…アラブの征服軍は支配下の農村社会には手をつけず,租税(ハラージュ,ジズヤなど)の徴収だけを唯一の目的にしていたからである。初期イスラム時代には,コプトの村長であるエジプトのマーズートmāzūtやイラク・イランの在地土豪であるディフカーンdihqānが,在地の有力者として租税の割当てやその徴収に責任を負っていた。しかし8世紀ころからアラブが地主となってむらに定着し,また官僚的な徴税機構が整うようになると,これらの村長はしだいに地方名士としての地位を喪失し,代わってシャイフと呼ばれるアラブの村長がむら社会をとりしきるようになった。…

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