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In school we read an article that said "The Turkish dynasties became identified with Sunni Islam and with the Hanefi school of Jurisprudence, the one least restrictive of the ruler's discretion and the most accommodating to custom." What does this mean, what in Hanefi doctrine makes this so?

by /u/Da_dank_knight_rises in /r/AskHistorians

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