Hoca

Hoca is the Turkish spelling of the Persian word Khawaja (Persian: خواجه khwāja, khâjeh), used as a title, given name or surname.

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As a title, 'Hoca' (variant Hodja) means “master” and is commonly used for teachers, professors, leaders, and in general, wise people. It is also used as a slang word between friends.

It may refer to:

• Adnan Hoca or Adnan Oktar (born 1956), also known as Harun Yahya, cult leader and Islamic creationist
• Cinci Hoca (died 1648), Ottoman spiritualist
• İskilipli Âtıf Hoca (1875–1926), Turkish Islamic scholar
• Hoca Ali Rıza (1858–1939), Turkish painter
• Hoca Çelebi or Ebussuud Efendi (1490–1574), Hanafi Ottoman jurist and Qur'an exegete
• Hoca Niyaz or Hoja-Niyaz, Uyghur independence movement leader who led several rebellions in Xinjiang
• Hoca Sadüddin Efendi (1536–1599), Ottoman scholar, official, historian, a teacher of Ottoman sultan Murad III
• Hoca Sefer, captain, who was in charge of pro-Ottoman forces in Gujarat in the first half of the 15th century
• Nasreddin Hoca or Nasreddin, Seljuq satirical Sufi figure (around 13th century)
• Hoca Hassan a Malay whose real name is Maulana Sayyid Fadillah who was also known as Fatahillah or Tu' Bagus Pasai, the chief of public security (Malay: Temenggong Khoja Hassan) for the last Malacca Sultan and disposed admiral (Malay: Laksamana Khoja Hassan) whom falsely accuse Tun Mutahir to seize the Sultan's power thus become the reason of the fall of the Malacca Empire to the Portuguese. He then became a commander for the Demak Sultanate and conquered the port of Sunda Kelapa and renamed it to Jayakarta or to what is known today as Jakarta.