There was also a great degree of religious tolerance, reflecting the long-held Mongol tradition of religion as a personal conviction free from the law and interference.
For his part he had studied law by a sort of family tradition; and had then remained a burden on his widowed mother, who already hardly knew how to dispose of her two daughters.
So that notion crosses the Atlantic Ocean and becomes a part of the American tradition of law, so that when the colonies are coming up, they have trial by jury and they have juries.
Although we tend to think of sharia as this single set of laws that all Muslims follow, that’s ridiculous; there are numerous competing interpretations of sharia, just as there are within any legal tradition.