Turkish delight form of "lokum" made with starch and sugar. The family business, now in its fifth generation, still operates under the founder's name. Tim Richardson, a historian of sweets, has questioned the popular attribution of Hacı Bekir as the inventor of Turkish Delight, writing that "specific names and dates are often erroneously associated with the invention of particular sweets, not least for commercial reasons". Similar Arab and Persian recipes, including the use of starch and sugar, predate Bekir by several centuries. The Oxford Companion to Food states that although Bekir is often credited with the invention, there is no hard evidence
Ebussuud Effendi Ebussuud Effendi Ebussuud Effendi (Turkish: "Mehmed Ebussuûd Efendi", b. 30 December 1490 – d. 23 August 1574) was a Hanafi Ottoman jurist and Qur'an exegete. He was also called "El-İmâdî" because his family was from İmâdiyye. Ebussuud was the son of İskilipli Sheikh Muhiddin Mehmed Effendi. In the 1530s, Ebussuud served as judge in Bursa, Istanbul and Rumelia, where he brought local laws into conformity with Islamic law ("sharia"). Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent promoted him to Shaykh al-Islām – supreme judge and highest official – in 1545, an office Ebussuud held until his death and which he brought to the