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Definition of Rayah
1. n. A person not a Mohammedan, who pays the capitation tax.
Definition of Rayah
1. Noun. (pejorative) A member of the tax-paying lower class of Ottoman society. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rayah
1. a non-Muslim inhabitant of Turkey [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rayah
Literary usage of Rayah
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Behind the Red Line: Political Repression in Sudan by Jemera Rone, Brian Owsley, Human Rights Watch/Africa (1996)
"Mohamed Ahmed al rayah al Faki One of the best known and documented cases of
torture in Sudan in recent years was that of Brig. (Ret. ..."
2. Egypt by James Carlile McCoan, Wilfred C. Lay (1902)
"... Copts—Abyssinians—Nubians — Jews—rayah Greeks—Syrians—Armenians—Foreigners—Industrial
Distributions of the Whole WHATEVER may have been the origin of ..."
3. Twelve Years ̕study of the Eastern Question in Bulgaria: Being a Revised by Stanislas Graham Bower St. Clair, Charles A. Brophy (1877)
"THE REAL POSITION OF THE BULGARIAN rayah, HIS SYSTEM OF AGRICULTURE, ETC. ...
In most parts of Turkey, and throughout Bulgaria, the rayah peasant holds ..."
4. Travels in European Turkey, in 1850: Through Bosnia, Servia, Bulgaria by Edmund Spencer (1851)
"Taxes—How levied in Turkey—rayah grievances—Reforms of the late Sultan Mahmoud—Their
consequences—Present condition of Turkey. IN every country taxes must ..."
5. Egypt as it is by James Carlile McCoan (1877)
"... —rayah Greeks — Syrians—Armenians—Foreigners—Industrial Distributions of the
Whole. WHATEVER may have been the origin of the ancient Egyptians—whether ..."
6. Through Bosnia and the Herzegóvina on Foot During the Insurrection, August by Arthur Evans (1876)
"... Metropolitan and Bishops of Bosnia—Their boundless Rapacity, and Oppression
of the rayah—A Bosnian Bath—Mosques and Cloth-hall of ..."
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