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After the fall of the Abbasids in 1258, a practice known to the Turks and Mongols transformed itself into Qanun, which gave power to caliphs, governors, and sultans alike to " make their own regulations for activities not addressed by the sharia.

" The Qanun began to unfold as early as Umar I ( 586-644 CE ).

Many of the regulations covered by Qanun were based on financial matters or tax systems adapted through the law and regulations of those territories Islam conquered.

Qanun in Arabic means law or rules.