al-Ḥalabī

al-Ḥalabī (born c. 1460, Ḥalab, Mamlūk Sultanate [now Aleppo, Syria]—died 1549) was a jurist who maintained the traditions of Islamic jurisprudence in the 16th century. Personal details of his life are obscure, except that after studying in Ḥalab and Cairo, he spent more than 40 years in Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, where he became a preacher in the Mosque of Mehmed II, at that time one of the most important mosques of...