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バイア

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The bay'a is the formal oath by which the ulema of Fez, the urban notables, and the tribal qā'ids pledge allegiance to a newly acclaimed sultan, a covenant renewed at each succession and at every great political crisis. The act binds rulers and subjects in mutual obligation: the sultan undertakes to defend the faith and the customary law, while the assembled representatives undertake to support the state with their levies and their tax compliance. This consent-based legitimacy stabilizes our succession and dampens the centrifugal pressures that the absence of consultation would otherwise unleash.

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