Resistance without Protest and without Organization: Peasant Opposition to the Islamic<i>Zakat</i>and the Christian Tithe

Abstract

This study presents an analysis of Malay peasant resistance to the Islamic zakat today and of French peasant resistance earlier to the Christian tithe, but it is offered with a larger argument in mind. Its purpose is to show that a vast range of what counts—or should count—as peasant resistance involves no overt protest and requires little or no organization.