The Iqta system was an Islamic practice of tax farming that became common in Muslim Asia during the Buyid dynasty. It was a unique type of land distribution and administrative system introduced during the reign of Iltutmish in the Delhi Sultanate. The system divided the lands of the Delhi Sultanate into several large and small tracts called Iqta and assigned these Iqtas to the Sultan’s soldiers, officers, and nobles. The beneficiaries of the Iqta System were military officers and nobles who received the right to collect revenue from a specific area of land in exchange for military service or other duties to the Sultan. The Muqtis were responsible for upholding law and order and receiving payment from the peasants. Theoretically, iqtas were not hereditary by law and had to be confirmed by a higher authority like a sultan or king. However, it was made hereditary in Islamic India by Firoz Tughlaq. The Iqta system was revived by Firuz Shah Tughlaq of the Tughlaq dynasty, having also made the assignments hereditary to please the nobles. Alauddin Khalji stressed the transfer of Iqtadars to check their personal interests and increased the role of bureaucracy in iqtas. The Iqta system was a military land-tenure arrangement by which military men were granted the rights to tax collection from plots of arable land in exchange.