Sokollu Mehmed Pasha
Sudi was born in Bosnia, in a village called Sudići, and received his early schooling in Sarajevo. To further his education, he came to Istanbul sometime in the period 1565–79, during the time of the Bosnian-born Grand Vizier Sokollu Mehmed Pasha. After this he travelled to Amid (Diyarbakir), Damascus and Baghdad, where he studied under various scholars, and at some stage he also visited Egypt. However, he never appears to have visited Persia itself. After returning to Istanbul, Sudi was appointed by Sokollu Mehmed Pasha to teach Persian to selected slave-boys in the Ibrahim Pasha Palace, one of the foremost centres for the training of future administrators. Eventually, however, he was forced to retire from this position. He appears to have died shortly after 1599.