AMASYA 05

Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL

Âbak Bey — Emîr Bedreddîn

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 6, p. 11 • Edited by: Doç. Dr. Recep Orhan ÖZEL - Doç. Dr. Metin HAKVERDİOĞLU

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Amasya’nın hâriç mahallâtından Kayabaşı Mahallesi’nde mukîm ümerâdan Kayabeyzâde Bayat Bey’in oğludur. Amasya emîr-i kebîri el-Hâc Şâdgeldi Pâdişah bin el-Hâc Kutluşâh devrinde Geldiklân nahiyesi ve kazâsı beyi oldu. Emîr-i müşârün-ileyhin evâhir-i ahdinde vefât etdi. Hacı Şadgeldi Paşa’nın mu’temed ve sâdık beylerinden idi. Mahdûmları Ahmed, Süleyman [5] beyler ve Süleyman Beyzâde Dâvud Şah Bey Osmanlı ümerâsındandır. Âbâk-“tâbâk” vezninde olup et-Tuhfetü’z-Zekiyye’de mutlaka şekil ve sûret, şahsiyyet ve sûret-i hasene ma’nâsınadır. Eski Türk adlarından olup pek çok beylerin adıdır.

Our Research Article Editor: Mevlüt Erdem Öztürk

In Modern English

He is the son of Kayabeyzâde Bayat Bey, one of the emirs living in the Kayabaşı quarter, one of the outer quarters of Amasya. In the time of el-Hâc Şâdgeldi Padişah son of el-Hâc Kutluşah, the great emir of Amasya, he became bey of the district and kaza of Geldiklân. He died in the last days of the said emir. He was one of the trusted and loyal beys of Hacı Şadgeldi Pasha. His sons Ahmed and Süleyman Beys, and Süleyman Beyzâde Dâvud Şah Bey, are among the Ottoman emirs. Âbâk is on the pattern of "tabâk", and in the work et-Tuhfetü'z-Zekiyye it means, without qualification, form and appearance, personality and good looks. It is one of the old Turkish names and the name of many beys.

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • hâriç mahallât: quarters outside and around the city
  • mukîm: resident
  • emîr-i kebîr: great emir, head of the region
  • emîr-i müşârün-ileyh: the said emir
  • evâhir-i ahd: the last days of a term of office or period
  • mu'temed: trusted
  • vezn: the sound pattern of a word

Hacı Şadgeldi and His Era

The emir of Amasya in the text, Hacı Şadgeldi, is the second elder son of Hacı Kutlu Şah. He was appointed to the emirate of Amasya in 1359 and remained in this post until his death in 1381. After the Kaynar affair of 1362 he came onto the stage a second time as emir of Amasya, and in these years he began to act independently. In the sources this emirate appears as the "Kürdoğlu Emirate", "Kutluşah Emirate" or "Şadgeldi Emirate". It is stated that Kadı Burhâneddin defeated and killed him in the autumn of 1381.

That Âbak Bey died close to the last years of this emirate is consistent with Hüsameddin's phrase "evâhir-i ahd". For this reason it may be thought that he died in the late 1370s or around 1380; this is an inference, since the text gives no date.

Geldiklân and the Family Branch

The present-day location of the district of Geldiklân that the bey governed could not be verified in other sources. For the Kayabaşı quarter too no separate record was found. That his sons Ahmed and Süleyman Beys and his grandson Dâvud Şah Bey are counted among the emirs in Ottoman service could not be confirmed by a source other than Hüsameddin.

For the meaning of the name Âbak, Hüsameddin cites et-Tuhfetü'z-Zekiyye. It was not possible to compare this explanation with another source.

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