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If the one of the leading causes of anti-Umayyad sentiment leading up to the Abbasid revolution was the Umayyads continuing to levy the jizya on converts, how did the Abbasids make up the difference in receipts? Did they institute new taxes or was their tax income lower compared to the Umayyads?

by /u/jurble in /r/AskHistorians

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