AMASYA 05

Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL

Âgah Mehmed Efendi — Fazlızâde

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 6, p. 22 • Edited by: Doç. Dr. Recep Orhan ÖZEL - Doç. Dr. Metin HAKVERDİOĞLU

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

[39] Amasyalıdır. Fazlızâde el-Hâc Sa’id Ahmed Ağa bin el-Hâc Ali Efendi mahdûmudur. Tahsîl-i ilm ü kitâbet edib Amasya’da cizye kâtibi oldu. Badehu Ak Hasanzâde el-Hâc Halîl Paşa’ya intisab ederek dîvân efendisi olup devr-i bilâd etdi. 1200’de Hacı Halîl Paşa’nın vefâtında Amasya’ya gelip Recep Mahallesi’nde ikâmet ederek 1208 senesi hilâlinde vefât eyledi. Kâtib, şâir, fenn-i inşâya vâkıf idi. Halîl Paşa tarafından Bâb-ı âlîye yazdığı Niyâz-nâmesi” görüldü, münşiyâne idi. Fakat eş’ârı bulunamadı.

Our Research Article Editor: Mevlüt Erdem Öztürk

In Modern English

He was a native of Amasya. He was the son of Fazlızâde el-Hâc Saîd Ahmed Ağa, who in turn was the son of el-Hâc Ali Efendi. Having learned scholarship and the clerk's craft, he became jizya scribe in Amasya. Later, attaching himself to Ak Hasanzâde el-Hâc Halîl Pasha, he traveled the country as divan efendi. In 1200 [1785-86], on Hacı Halîl Pasha's death, he came to Amasya and lived in the Recep Quarter, and he died in the course of 1208 [1793-94]. He was a scribe and poet and knew the art of correspondence and composition (inşâ). The "Niyâz-nâme" that he wrote in Halîl Pasha's name to the Sublime Porte was seen; it was written in a literary style. His poems, however, could not be found.

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • cizye kâtibi: the clerk who kept the records of the poll tax taken from non-Muslim subjects
  • dîvân efendisi: the secretary in charge of a pasha's divan chancery
  • devr-i bilâd: traveling through cities and the country
  • fenn-i inşâ: the art of official correspondence and literary prose
  • münşiyâne: in the inşâ style, with ornate and literary prose
  • Niyâz-nâme: a petition, a letter of request
  • Bâb-ı âlî: the Ottoman capital government

Halîl Pasha's Scribe

The entry is linked to the entry on Ak Hasan Ağa on the preceding pages: Mehmed Efendi is the divan efendi of Ak Hasanzâde Halîl Pasha, the member of that family who rose to the vizierate. Hüsameddin says only that the Niyâz-nâme he wrote is in a literary style; he does not relay the content of the text, and he could not reach his poems.

No information was found on this person in other sources. In the same Amasya Tarihi another person from the Fazlızâde family, named Emin Mehmed Efendi (born 1219, son of Seyyid el-Hâc Abdülfettâh Efendi), also appears; this person is different from Âgah Mehmed Efendi, who died in 1208.

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