Cinci Hoca is the epithet of Karabaşzade Hüseyin Efendi, a 17th century Ottoman

Ottoman Empire

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 spiritualist whose influence on the sultan caused many problems in the empire.

Life

He was born in Safranbolu

Safranbolu

Safranbolu is a town and district of Karabük Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey. It is about two hundred kilometers north of Ankara and about a hundred kilometers south of the Black Sea coast, or more precisely about 9 kilometers north of the city of Karabük...

 (in modern province of Karabük

Karabük

-Economy:Karabük has its own resources of dolomite and limestone, while coal and manganese is brought from Zonguldak and iron ore from Divriği. This allows a varied, yet basic industry in Karabük, including a coking plant, blast furnaces, a foundry and tube works. There are also chemical plants...

, Turkey

Turkey

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). According to Joseph von Hammer, he was a descendant of Sadrettin Konevi, a 13th century sufi. But unlike his famous anchestor, he made a name as a witch doctor and, valide sultan

Valide Sultan

Valide Sultan was the title held by the mother of a ruling Sultan in the Ottoman Empire. The Turkish pronunciation of the word Valide is . The title is sometimes translated as Queen Mother, although the position of Valide Sultan was quite different.The position was perhaps the most important...

 (mother sultan) Kösem

Kösem

Kösem Sultan — also known as Mehpeyker Sultan — was one of the most powerful women in Ottoman history . Consort and favourite concubine of Ottoman Sultan Ahmed I...

 invited him to palace to cure the unbalanced sultan İbrahim

Ibrahim I

Ibrahim I was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1640 until 1648. He was born in Istanbul the son of Ahmed I by Valide Sultan Kadinefendi Kösem Sultan, an ethnic Greek originally named Anastasia...

. In 1643, İbrahim appointed Cinci as the kadı

Kadı

A kadı was an official in the Ottoman empire. Based on the Islamic concept of a judge, the Ottoman official also had extra duties; they performed local administrative tasks, and they were involved in taxation and conscription...

 of Galata

Galata

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 and in 1644 as the kazasker of Anatolia

Anatolia

Anatolia is a geographic and historical term denoting the westernmost protrusion of Asia, comprising the majority of the Republic of Turkey...

  an appointment which caused a great reaction among the ulama

Ulama

-In Islam:* Ulema, also transliterated "ulama", a community of legal scholars of Islam and its laws . See:**Nahdlatul Ulama **Darul-uloom Nadwatul Ulama **Jamiatul Ulama Transvaal**Jamiat ul-Ulama -Other:...

.

Influence

Cinci used his increasing power to increase his wealth by accepting bribes. He was instrumental in executing the able grand vizier

Grand Vizier

Grand Vizier, in Turkish Vezir-i Azam or Sadr-ı Azam , deriving from the Arabic word vizier , was the greatest minister of the Sultan, with absolute power of attorney and, in principle, dismissable only by the Sultan himself...

 Kemankeş Mustafa Pasha

Kemankeş Mustafa Pasha

Kemankeş Mustafa Pasha was a 17th century Ottoman military officer and statesman. He served as Kapudan Pasha and as Grand Vizier.- Early life :...

 in 1644. Seeing the end of his predecessor, the new grand vizier Sultanzade Mehmet Pasha became a very ineffective statesman.

Death

When İbrahim was dethroned in 1648, the new grand vizier Sofu Mehmet Pasha faced the problem of bonus sallaries , the traditional sallary paid to soldiers upon the entroronment of the new sultan. He confiscated Cinci's earnings and expulsed Cinci to Damascus

Damascus

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 (now in Syria

Syria

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). But during his travel, Cinci fell ill in Mihalcık

Karacabey

For the horse breed, see Karacabey .Karacabey is a town and district of Bursa Province in the Marmara region of Turkey. It is located just west of the Simav River near its confluence with the ....

 (now Karacabey in Bursa Province

Bursa Province

Bursa Province is a province in western Turkey, along the Sea of Marmara. Its adjacent provinces are Balıkesir to the west, Kütahya to the south, Bilecik and Sakarya to the east, Kocaeli to the northeast and Yalova to the north. The province has an area of 11,043 km2 and a population of 3,187,000...

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