Hoca Hoca is the Turkish spelling of the Persian word Khawaja (Persian: خواجه ''khwāja, khâjeh''), used as a title, given name or surname. As a title, Hoca (variant ''Hodja'') means “master” and is commonly used for teachers, professors ...

Sadeddin Efendi ( ota, خواجه سعد الدین افندی; 1536/1537 – October 2, 1599İsmail Hâmi Danişmend, ''Osmanlı Devlet Erkânı'', Türkiye Yayınevi, İstanbul, 1971, p. 118. ) was an Ottoman scholar, official, and historian, a teacher of the future Ottoman sultan

Murad III Murad III ( ota, مراد ثالث, Murād-i sālis; tr, III. Murad; 4 July 1546 – 16 January 1595) was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1574 until his death in 1595. His rule saw battles with the Habsburgs and exhausting wars with the Saf ...

. His name may be transcribed variously, e.g. ''Sa'd ad-Din'', ''Sa'd al-Din'', ''Sa'düddin'', or others. He was also called by the title of "Câmi'-ür Riyâseteyn". When Murad became Sultan, Sadeddin became his advisor. Later he fell out of favor, but was appointed

Sheikh ul-islam Sheikh (pronounced or ; ar, شيخ ' , mostly pronounced , plural ' )—also transliterated sheekh, sheyikh, shaykh, shayk, shekh, shaik and Shaikh, shak—is an honorific title in the Arabic language. It commonly designates a chief of a ...

, a superior authority in the issues of

Islam Islam (; ar, ۘالِإسلَام, , ) is an Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic Monotheism#Islam, monotheistic religion centred primarily around the Quran, a religious text considered by Muslims to be the direct word of God in Islam, God (or ...

. Sadeddin is the author of ''Tâc üt-Tevârîh'' (Tadj ut-Tewarikh, “Crown of Histories”), a history of the Ottoman Empire in prose and verse. He had at least five sons:

Mehmed Efendi Mehmed (modern Turkish: Mehmet) is the most common Bosnian and Turkish form of the Arabic name Muhammad ( ar, محمد) (''Muhammed'' and ''Muhammet'' are also used, though considerably less) and gains its significance from being the name of Muha ...

(died 1615), Esad Efendi (died 1625), Mesud Efendi (died 1597), Abdülaziz Efendi (died 1618), and Salih Efendi.

Publications

*Hoca Sadeddin Efendi, ''Tâcü't-tevârih''. Sad. İsmet Parmaksızoğlu, vols. 1-5, Kültür Bakanlığı, Ankara, 1974-1979 reprint:1999. ("Sad". means ''Sadelestiren'', "simplification") **Vol. 1: Osman Gazi, Orhan Gazi, Hüdevendigar Gazi ve Yıldırım Han Devirleri. **Vol. 2: Yıldırım Han'dan Fatih Sultan Mehmed'e. **Vol. 3: Fatih Sultan Mehmed ve İkinci Beyazid Dönemi. **Vol. 4: Şehzadelerin Girişimleri - Selimname ve Yavuz Sultan Selim Dönemi. **Vol. 5: Hatime. Orijinal karton kapaklarında. *Saad ed-dini scriptoris turcici ''Annales turcici usque ad Muradem I cum textu turcico impressi.'' Translated to Latin, edited and annotated by Adam F. Kollár. Vienna: 1755. *Bulgarian translation: Калицин, Мария. Корона на историите на Ходжа Садеддин. Transl. of Vol. 1. from Osman Turkish; analysis and commentary. Велико Търново ( Veliko Tarnovo), Publ. "Абагар" ("Abagar"), 2000, 437 с,

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1536 births 1599 deaths Political people from the Ottoman Empire Sheikh-ul-Islams of the Ottoman Empire 16th-century historians from the Ottoman Empire Islamic scholars from the Ottoman Empire Shaykh al-Islāms {{Ottoman-bio-stub