Dhimmi had more rights than other non-Muslim religious subjects, but often fewer legal and social rights than Muslims.
Jizya is a tax imposed by Muslim governments on non-Muslim subjects.
Ottoman sultans continued to regulate the clothing of their non-Muslim subjects.
Both in contemporaneous and in modern usage, it refers to non-Muslim subjects in particular, also called zimmi.
His treatment of his conquered non-Muslim subjects and British prisoners of war is controversial.
In order to preserve peace and order in a religiously and culturally diverse empire, he adopted policies that won him the support of his non-Muslim subjects.
The term originated from rayah, a generic name for the non-Muslim subjects of the Ottoman Empire.
The Ottomans depended upon their non-Muslim subjects to conduct the trade of the empire and to provide most of the leading medical practitioners and other specialists.
Jews, along with the other non-Muslim subjects of the Empire, were granted full equality under Ottoman law by 1856.
He was more inclusive in his approach to the non-Muslim subjects of the Empire.