stillman
Speech parts
1. stillman - Noun
2. Stillman - Proper noun
Meaning
Stillman (plural Stillmans)
A surname.
stillman (plural stillmen)
The person who operates a still (device for distilling liquids).
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Phrases with the word
Examples
According to Norman Stillman : "jizya and kharaj were a "crushing burden for the non-Muslim peasantry who eked out a bare living in a subsistence economy."
Al-Tabari, Ta'rikh al-Rusul wa 'l-Muluk, translated in Stillman (1979), p. 167. Most of the restrictions were social and symbolic in nature, Lewis (1984), p. 26 and a pattern of stricter, then more lax, enforcement developed over time.
Lewis (1984), p. 17–18; Stillman (1979), p. 18 However, in some regions the jizya on populations was significantly lower than the zakat, meaning dhimmi populations maintained an economic advantage.
He was born Sept. 5, 1939 in Greenbush, the son of Maurice and Helen (Haywood) Stillman.
Stanford had asked his friend and horseman Dr. J. B. D. Stillman to write a book analysing The Horse in Motion, which was published in 1882.
Stillman (1979), p. 471 Sometimes, Muslim rulers issued regulations requiring dhimmis to attach distinctive signs to their houses.