Drawing on documents retrieved from northern Iraq as part of The ISIS Files project and other sources, this paper examines in-depth the Islamic State’s Diwan al-Aqarat wa al-Kharaj (Real Estate and Land Tax Department), exploring how the Islamic State came to acquire ‘real estate’ and the functions of the department within the context of the group’s larger governance project.

Subject

• Property revenues
• Delegated committee
• Property confiscation
• IS (organization)
• War spoils
• Property rental
• Real estate department

Date, Gregorian

• June 2020

Language

• English

Creator

• Al-Tamimi, Aymenn Jawad

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Persistent URL

•  https://isisfiles.gwu.edu/report/8336h188j

Resource type

• Report