Ebussuud Efendi, Ottoman lawyer and jurist (died 1574)

Ebussuud Efendi

Ottoman chief jurist (1490–1574)

Ebussuud Efendi, was a Hanafi Maturidi Ottoman jurist and Quran exegete, served as the Qadi (judge) of Istanbul from 1533 to 1537, and the Shaykh al-Islām of the Ottoman Empire from 1545 to 1574. He was also called "El-İmâdî" because his family hailed from Imâd, a village near…