Sobhi Mahmassani
Sobhi R. Mahmassani (Arabic:صبحي محمصاني) born in Beirut, Lebanon, on January 29, 1909 was a Lebanese legal scholar, practising lawyer, judge, and political figure who contributed substantially to building the legal and civic foundations of the then-nascent country of Lebanon, and whose writings on Islamic jurisprudence remain authoritative works on this topic for legal scholars and researchers.