Tax policy in Al-Ahsa administration and its community In light of the Ottoman documents

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The Ottoman weakness suffered by the apparatus of the Ottoman state was an indication of the extent of its floundering in various fields.
Its policies, including the tax policy applied in its Arab states, of which the Al-Ahsa Mutasarrifate was of particular interest.
The swinging dependency between the states of Baghdad and Basra, and the Ottoman Empire defined the Ottoman tax policy in Al-Ahsa Mutasarrifate before the Ottoman campaign set foot in the lands of Al-Ahsa, and this contradictory policy was formed
Societal shock, as it often led to clashes between the groups of society and the Ottoman authority.
And expressing it through social strikes, an expression of their rejection, their inability and their inability to achieve them..
Society in order to alleviate the suffering of its groups from this unfair policy, which led to the abandonment of a number of them.
They fled, and the burdens of the Al-Ahsa Mutasarrifate lands were borne by them, heading to Bahrain, from the weight of the taxes imposed on them..
They had nothing to do with it, and it exceeded their material capacity, so this tax policy had a strong impact on existence the Ottomans in the region.

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