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Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL

Âdem Bey — Hâbilzâde

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 6, p. 14 • Edited by: Doç. Dr. Recep Orhan ÖZEL - Doç. Dr. Metin HAKVERDİOĞLU

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Amasyalıdır. Züamâdan Ali Bey’in oğludur. Bu da meşâhîr-i züamâdan olup 988’de Şirvân Muhârebelerinde vefât etdi. [13] Oğulları Hâbil, Kâbil Beylerdir. Kâbil Paşa, Karayazıcı İhtilâlinde beylerbeyi olmuşdu. Hâbilbeyzâde Mûsâ Beydir. Bunlara “Âdemoğulları” dendi.

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In Modern English

He was from Amasya. He is the son of Ali Bey, one of the zeamet holders. The latter too was a well-known zeamet holder and died in the Shirvan wars in 988 [1580-81]. His sons are Hâbil and Kâbil Beys. Kâbil Pasha had become a beylerbeyi during the Karayazıcı revolt. Hâbil Bey's son is Mûsâ Bey. These were called "Âdemoğulları".

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • züamâ: zeamet holders; sipahis whose annual income was a large timar land and who took horsemen to war
  • meşâhîr: the famous
  • muhârebe: war
  • ihtilâl: revolt, disorder
  • beylerbeyi: provincial governor

The Shirvan Wars

The year 988 [1580-81], in which Âdem Bey died, falls within the Ottoman-Safavid war (1578-1590) that began in 1578. The war began when the beys of Shirvan, Dagestan and Georgia, under Iranian pressure, asked the Ottomans for help and the Safavids broke the Peace of Amasya. With the victories of the army under Lala Kara Mustafa Pasha and of Özdemiroğlu Osman Pasha in Shirvan, the Ottomans established superiority in the region in the same year. Âdem Bey took part in these campaigns as a zeamet holder and died; in which battle he took part is not stated in the text.

The Karayazıcı Revolt and Kâbil Pasha

Karayazıcı is the nickname of Abdülhalim of Urfa. Abdülhalim, who had also served as sanjak bey of Amasya, raised the first of the Celâlî revolts that began in the late sixteenth century. In 1603 his followers burned and plundered Amasya, and the leading men of the city, with their wealth, were forced to take refuge in the royal tombs. The information that Kâbil Pasha became beylerbeyi in this turmoil rests on Hüsameddin; no separate record was found for Kâbil Pasha in another source.

That the family name is Âdemoğulları and the sons are named Hâbil and Kâbil recalls the names of the sons of Adam (Âdem). This is an observation; the reason for the naming is not stated in the text.

Bibliography

Primary sources

  • Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 6, p. 14–14. amasya.bel.tr

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