Idris-i Badlisi lists two Kurdish tutors for Ottoman sultans. Kurdish teachers would be available to Ottoman sultans in following centuries, but these two were the most renowned throughout the early Ottoman period.
Idris-i Badlisi (16th-century):
Of all the great 'ulema and knowledgeable governors since the beginning of the world one of the most famous for his knowledge in those days was Mevlana Ahmed Gürani, who in the time of sultan Murad had been tutor and Hoca of sultan Mehmed gazi, and until the end of his long life he continued to serve him. After the demise of the sultan Mehmed II, he served the present sultan and his name was among those of the excellent ministers of the state. He was respected for the seventy years that he served Islam under the sultans, always spreading the knowledge of the learned. He died in 895 (1489-90).
Another man of knowledge and excellence in the sultan's service was Mevlana Bedreddin Hoca. He was of Kurdish origin and had held the position of the sultan's tutor and Hoca. He was distinguished among the 'ulema and he died in 903 (1497-8).
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