Cinci Hoca (literally "

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") is the epithet of Karabaşzade Hüseyin Efendi, a 17th-century Ottoman spiritualist whose influence on the sultan caused many problems in the empire.

Life

He was born in

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(in modern province of

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). According to

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,Joseph von Hammer:''Osmanlı Tarihi'' cilt II (condensation: Abdülkadir Karahan), Milliyet yayınları, İstanbul. pp. 231-241 he was a descendant of Sadrettin Konevi, a 13th-century Sufi. But unlike his famous ancestor, he made a name as a witch doctor and

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(mother sultana) Kösem invited him to the palace to cure the unbalanced sultan

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. In 1643, İbrahim appointed Cinci as the kadı of Galata and in 1644 as the

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( tr, Anadolu kazaskeri) an appointment which caused a great reaction among the

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Influence

Cinci used his increasing power to increase his wealth by accepting bribes. He was instrumental in executing the able grand vizier Kemankeş Mustafa Pasha in 1644. Seeing the end of his predecessor, the new grand vizier Sultanzade Mehmet Pasha became a very ineffective statesman. Ayhan Buz: ''Osmanlı Sadrazamları'', Neden Kitap, İstanbul, 2009, , p.100

Death

When İbrahim was dethroned in 1648, the new grand vizier

Sofu Mehmet Pasha Sofu Mehmed Pasha (died August 1649), also known as Mevlevi Mehmed Pasha, was an Ottoman statesman who served as grand vizier and defterdar (finance minister). Early years He was a chamberlain/deputy ('' kethüda'') of a ''defterdar'' (the ...

faced the problem of bonus salaries ( tr, culus bahşişi), the traditional salary paid to soldiers upon the enthronement of the new sultan. He confiscated Cinci's earnings and expelled Cinci to Damascus (now in Syria). But during his travel, Cinci fell ill in Mihalcık (now Karacabey in

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, Turkey). While staying in Mihalcık, he criticised the grand vizier and consequently he was executed.

References

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