Context: Achmath was a very high-ranking bureaucrat directly under Kublai Khan of Saracen descent. He abused his position to embezzle the public coffers and to force the native Chinese to hand him over their most beautiful women for his personal harem, which angered the natives so much that it nearly spawned an uprising across all of China against the Mongols. The uprising could be quelled, but not before Achmath was killed by a scorned army officer.
Kublai Khan investigated the background, and became quite apalled:
After the Great Kaan had returned to Cambaluc he was very anxious to discover what had led to this affair, and he then learned all about the endless iniquities of that accursed Achmath and his sons. It was proved that he and seven of his sons (for they were not all bad) had forced no end of women to be their wives, besides those whom they had ravished. The Great Kaan then ordered all the treasure that Achmath had accumulated in the Old City to be transferred to his own treasury in the New City, and it was found to be of enormous amount. He also ordered the body of Achmath to be dug up and cast into the streets for the dogs to tear; and commanded those of his sons that had followed the father's evil example to be flayed alive.
These circumstances called the Kaan's attention to the accursed doctrines of the Sect of the Saracens, which excuse every crime, yea even murder itself, when committed on such as are not of their religion. And seeing that this doctrine had led the accursed Achmath and his sons to act as they did without any sense of guilt, the Kaan was led to entertain the greatest disgust and abomination for it. So he summoned the Saracens and prohibited their doing many things which their religion enjoined. Thus, he ordered them to regulate their marriages by the Tartar Law, and prohibited their cutting the throats of animals killed for food, ordering them to rip the stomach in the Tartar way.
Source: Polo, Marco: The Travels of Marco Polo. Book 2, Chapter 23
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