The impact of Abu Yusuf's socio-economic views on the lives of the people of Central Asia

Abstract

By the beginning of the eighth century, Central Asia had been invaded by the Arabs, who had brought with them a new religion, Islam, and had begun to spread it among the conquered peoples in various ways. In this article, the socio-philosophical views of Yaqub Abu Yusuf ibn Ibrahim al-Kufi (735-798), known in the Islamic world as Abu Yusuf, the formation of the caliphate tax system and its impact on the lives of the peoples of Central Asia are analyzed. A number of works have been written by Abu Yusuf. Among them, the book "Kitab ul-Kharaj" is the most popular, in which the socio-philosophical views of Abu Yusuf are very well covered.

The article provides valuable historical information about Abu Yusuf's “Kitab al-Kharaj” on the basic economic and social relations in Islam and how the tax system was formed in the Arab Caliphate. A study of “Kitab ul-Kharaj” revealed that this work was not only an ancient manuscript, rather, it allows us to observe exactly what the tax system was like in the VIII-IX centuries in the caliphate and in the life of the peoples of Central Asia, and how it later changed as a result of historical evolution. This is because the tax system and attitude towards land developed by Abu Yusuf had a direct impact on the lives of the peoples of Central Asia.