Soon after the Fatawa Hindiyya was compiled in India under emperor Aurangzeb in the late 17th century, Ottoman jurists used this Indian fatwa compilation as an authoritative source in substantiating their jurisprudential opinions. Both Mughal and Ottomans legal scholars drew on earlier works such as the fourteenth-century Indian Fatawa Tatarhinyya and the twelfth-century Central Asian Fatawa Qadikhan. This paper examines the circulation of legal knowledge between otherwise two separate and disparate early modern Islamic empires: The Ottomans and the Mughals. This paper contributes to the early modern scholarship on Islamic world by emphasizing the Ottoman and Mughal legal scholars’ awareness of one another, their interconnectedness, and their contribution to the formation and accumulation of a universal Hanafi legal scholarship.