Abū al-Suʿūd, Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Muṣṭafā ʿImādī (in modern Turkish, Ebussuud Efendi) (17 Ṣafar 896–5 Jumādā I 982/30 December 1490–23 August 1574), known also as Kh^wājah al-Chalabī, was a Ḥanafī jurist and exegete as well as the most famous Shaykh al-Islām of the Ottoman empire. He served under both Sultan Sulaymān I ‘the Magnificent’ (Kanuni Süleyman) and his son Salīm (Selim) II. He was born in the village of Mudarris, near Istanbul (ʿAṭāʾī, 183), situated among lands given as an endowment to the zāwiya (Sufi lodge; in Turkish, tekke) built for…