Abu Al-Hasan Taqī al-Dīn Ali ibn Abd al-Kafi ibn Ali al-Khazraji al-Ansari al-Subkī, was a leading polymath and renowned Shafi'i jurisconsult, traditionist, Qur'anic exegete, legal theorist, theologian, mystic, grammarian, linguist, rhetorician, historian, philologist, and chief judge of Damascus. Wikipedia