Mahmud Yalavach was a

Muslim Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abrah ...

Genghis Khan: Conqueror of the World By Leo De Hartog, pg. 85 administrator in the

Mongol Empire The Mongol Empire of the 13th and 14th centuries was the largest contiguous land empire in history. Originating in present-day Mongolia in East Asia, the Mongol Empire at its height stretched from the Sea of Japan to parts of Eastern Europe, ...

who ruled over Turkestan as governor and eventually went on to be mayor of Taidu (now Beijing). He was a Khorezmian merchant who served as an administrator and advisor to

Genghis Khan ''Chinggis Khaan'' ͡ʃʰiŋɡɪs xaːŋbr />Mongol script: ''Chinggis Qa(gh)an/ Chinggis Khagan'' , birth_name = Temüjin , successor = Tolui (as regent)Ögedei Khan , spouse = , issue = , house = Borjigin , ...

. Somewhere in the 1230s, he devised the census system accounting for the people in the newly formed

so they could be readily taxed. He went on to simplify the existing tax systems in his creation of two primary tax initiatives: The first was the

poll tax A poll tax, also known as head tax or capitation, is a tax levied as a fixed sum on every liable individual (typically every adult), without reference to income or resources. Head taxes were important sources of revenue for many governments fr ...

known as the ''qubchir'' and the other was an agricultural tax known as the ''qalan''.

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* Lane, George. Daily Life in the Mongol Empire. p. 62. 1st ed. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. US. 2006. * Christian, David. A History of Russia, Central Asia, and Mongolia. p. 415. 1st ed. Blackwell Publishing, Cornwall, United Kingdom. 1998. Mongol Empire people {{CAsia-hist-stub

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