- a member of any of various non-Muslim communities to whom conquering Muslims offered protection and the right not to convert to Islam in exchange for surrender, loyalty, and the payment of annual tribute: a phenomenon lasting from the 7th century until its abolition by the Ottoman Empire in 1839.
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