Note 172 — THE BRIDE OF ABYDOS.[124]
Reading edition
{195} "Rayahs,"—all who pay the capitation tax, called the "Haratch."
["This tax was levied on the whole male unbelieving population," except children under ten, old men, Christian and Jewish priests.—Finlay, Greece under Ottoman ... Domination, 1856, p. 26. See, too, the Qur'ân, cap. ix., "The Declaration of Immunity."]