Hoca , also rendered into English as ''hodja'', is a Turkish language, Turkish word deriving from the Persian language, Persian word , , used as a title, given name or surname. As a honorific title, means “master” and is commonly used for teac ...

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

Murad III Murad III (; ; 4 July 1546 – 16 January 1595) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1574 until his death in 1595. His rule saw battles with the Habsburg monarchy, Habsburgs and exhausting wars with the Safavid Iran, Safavids. The long-inde ...

. 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

Shaykh al-Islām Shaykh al-Islām (; ; , ''Sheykh-ol-Eslām''; , Sheikh''-ul-Islām''; , ) was used in the classical era as an honorific title for outstanding scholars of the Islamic sciences.Gerhard Böwering, Patricia Crone, Mahan Mirza, The Princeton Encyclope ...

, a superior authority in the issues of

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. Sadeddin is the author of ''Tâc üt-Tevârîh'' (Tadj ut-Tewarikh, “Crown of Histories”), a history of the

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire (), also called the Turkish Empire, was an empire, imperial realm that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Centr ...

in prose and verse. He had at least five sons: Mehmed Efendi (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,

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, 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 (

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), Publ. "Абагар" ("Abagar"), 2000, 437 с,

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