RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Ebussuud Efendi

1490 - 1574

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Ebussuud Efendi (Turkish: Mehmed Ebüssuûd Efendi, 30 December 1490 – 23 August 1574), 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 İskilip. Ebussuud was the son of Iskilipli Sheikh Muhiddin Muhammad Efendi. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ebussuud Efendi has received more than 159,389 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Ebussuud Efendi is the 877th most popular religious figure (down from 827th in 2019), the 345th most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 379th in 2019) and the 58th most popular Religious Figure.

Ebussuud Efendi is most famous for being a scholar, a poet, and a calligrapher.

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  • 1.88

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Ebussuud Efendi ranks 877 out of 3,187. Before him are Hélder Câmara, Dayananda Saraswati, Columba, Philipp Spener, Hans Egede, and Caesar Baronius. After him are Gerard Majella, Bavo of Ghent, Al-Tabarani, Angela of Foligno, Ahmad al-Rifaʽi, and Scipione Borghese.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1490, Ebussuud Efendi ranks 10. Before him are Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, Olaus Magnus, Vittoria Colonna, Huáscar, Albert of Brandenburg, and Florian Geyer. After him are Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, Francesco Maria I della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, Françoise d'Alençon, John III, Duke of Cleves, Marinus van Reymerswaele, and Properzia de' Rossi. Among people deceased in 1574, Ebussuud Efendi ranks 9. Before him are Charles IX of France, Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Georg Joachim Rheticus, Bartolomeo Eustachi, Renée of France, and Maarten van Heemskerck. After him are Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry, Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine, Marie of Cleves, Princess of Condé, Guidobaldo II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, Guru Amar Das, and Louis of Nassau.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Ebussuud Efendi ranks 345 out of 1,347. Before him are John Malalas (491), Leo I, King of Armenia (1150), Tarasios of Constantinople (730), Qara Yusuf (1357), Irene Angelina (1181), and Diodotus Tryphon (-150). After him are Gevherhan Sultan (1544), Zenodotus (-330), Ahmet Davutoğlu (1959), Mammes of Caesarea (259), Artaphernes (-600), and Aziz Sancar (1946).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Türkiye

Among religious figures born in Türkiye, Ebussuud Efendi ranks 58. Before him are Athanasius the Athonite (920), Lucian of Antioch (240), Germanus I of Constantinople (634), Charalambos (87), Agabus (100), and Tarasios of Constantinople (730). After him are Mammes of Caesarea (259), Nicholas Mystikos (852), Ignatios of Constantinople (797), Pelagia (400), Paisios of Mount Athos (1924), and Euthymius the Great (377).

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