KHANQAH
A hospice or monastery where Sufis belonging to a particular
order would reside or assemble. The organization of a khanqah
was headed by a senior member of the order authorized by his
preceptor to do so. The expenses of the organization, which often included
a mosque, residential spaces, and a free kitchen, would ordinarily
be met from voluntary contributions and occasionally also
from income yielded by land grants made by rulers or nobles.
KHARAJ
The land tax collected in an Islamic state. In the Delhi sultanate,
it was often called kharaj-i jiziya, denoting that the land tax
was treated as the equivalent to the jiziya prescribed for non-Muslim
subjects. ‘Ala al-Din Khalji (1296–1316) collected the kharaj at the
rate of one half of the produce by measurement of land under cultivation
and fixation of yield per standard unit (wafa’-i biswa).
88 • KHALJI DYNASTY
KHAZAIN UL-FUTUH
This book contains an account written by Amir
Khusrau of ‘Ala al-Din Khalji’s military campaigns. It also furnishes
a reliable narrative of developments at the court. The Khazain ul-futuh
represents Khusrau’s prose in its most organized and elegant form. The
first passage refers to the conquest of Ranthambhor (1301).
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