Mamālikal-imām (Ar. property/slaves of the imām) is a juridical concept in Shīʿī ḥadῑth, familiar to some eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Muslim legal scholars (ulamāʾ), whereby the People of the Book are regarded as property or slaves of the Imām. This meant that if a member of a dhimmῑ (see Dhimma) community killed or wounded someone, the dhimmῑ community was not required to pay the blood money for the victim, and instead it would be taken from the perpetrator's property. If the perpetrator had no property, the indemnity for the felony would be claimed from the Imām, since dhimmῑs wer…