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Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL

Ahmed Bey — Hacı İlyâsoğlu

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 6, p. 119 • Edited by: Doç. Dr. Recep Orhan ÖZEL - Doç. Dr. Metin HAKVERDİOĞLU

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Baba İlyâs Horasânî evlâdından ve Amasya ümerâsından Hamza Bey bin el-Hâc İlyâs Bey bin el-Hâc Nevrûz Bey bin Şemseddîn Mahmûd el-Tugrâ’î bin Baba İlyâs Horasânî mahdûmudur. Meşâhîr-i ümerâdan olup 837’de vefât etdi. Küpceğiz Mahallesi’nde bir bahçe içinde birâderi Murâd Bey’in yanında medfûndur. Mu’ammerînden idi. Buna “Hacı Beyzâde” de denirdi.

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In Modern English

He was of the line of Baba İlyâs Horasânî and the son of Hamza Bey, one of the beys of Amasya; Hamza Bey was the son of Hacı İlyâs Bey, Hacı İlyâs Bey the son of Hacı Nevrûz Bey, Hacı Nevrûz Bey the son of Şemseddîn Mahmûd et-Tuğrâî, and Şemseddîn Mahmûd the son of Baba İlyâs Horasânî. He was one of the well-known beys and died in 837 [1433-34]. He is buried in a garden in the Küpceğiz Quarter, beside his brother Murâd Bey. He was one of the long-lived. He was also called "Hacı Beyzâde".

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • evlâd: lineage, generation
  • ümerâ: beys, emirs
  • meşâhîr-i ümerâ: famous beys
  • medfûn: buried
  • mu'ammerîn: those who live long lives
  • Tuğrâî: the nişancı, official charged with drawing the tughra in the Seljuk chancery

The Line of Baba İlyâs and Amasya

Ahmed Bey's lineage goes back to Baba İlyâs-ı Horasânî, one of the most discussed figures of thirteenth-century Anatolia. According to Ahmet Yaşar Ocak, Baba İlyâs most probably migrated to Anatolia with the Turkmens who accompanied him from the land of the Khwarazmshahs, which was destroyed during the Mongol invasion. According to the Menâkıbü'l-kudsiyye, written by his grandson Elvan Çelebi in 760 [1358-59], he settled in the village of Çat near Amasya, today known as İlyas village, opened a zaviye and began to spread the Vefâiyye order. In 637 [1240] he left the actual conduct of the uprising against the Seljuk Sultan II. Gıyâseddin Keyhusrev to his caliph Baba İshak; the Babaîs suffered their first defeat at Amasya, and Baba İlyâs, who took refuge in the Amasya Fortress, was captured there and executed.

In the chain of descent Hüsameddin gives, Şemseddîn Mahmûd et-Tuğrâî appears as the son of Baba İlyâs. In other articles by Hüsameddin this man is mentioned as the vizier of the Seljuk Sultan İzzeddin Keykâvus. In the articles on the line of Elvan Çelebi that Metin Hakverdioğlu compiled from Hüsameddin's work, the names appear of Şemseddîn Mahmûd's son "Hacı Şehâbeddin Nevrûz Bey, one of the emirs", and of his son İdris Bey. It is recorded that İdris Bey was in the retinue of Timurtaş, emir of Sivas, was killed in 744 [1343] in the war against Eretna Bey, and that his sons were Hamza and Hızır Beys. Thus it is seen that over the fourteenth century the family ceased to be a line of dervishes around Amasya and became a family producing emirs and beys. Ahmed Bey in our article is the link of this line extending into the fifteenth century, the Ottoman period.

The Name Hacı İlyâs

The name of Ahmed Bey's grandfather Hacı İlyâs Bey has become the name of a quarter in Amasya. According to Hüsameddin, Hacı İlyâs Bey, the Hacı Nevrûz Beyzâde, lived in the quarter west of the Sultan Bayezid Mosque, built a mescit and a school there, and the quarter was called by his name. The Hacı İlyas Quarter lives on today in the centre of Amasya under the same name. That Ahmed Bey was called "Hacı Beyzâde" probably comes from the name of this well-known grandfather. Hüsameddin also tells that during the Baba İshak uprising Baba İlyâs withdrew from Amasya to his farm known as "Çatbükü (Hacı İlyas)". That the name Hacı İlyas was given both to a village and to a city quarter shows the deep trace of this line in Amasya.

The Küpceğiz Quarter

The Küpceğiz Quarter, where Ahmed Bey was buried beside his brother Murâd Bey, lies, according to Hüsameddin's description, at the foot of Karakaya; to its east is the Uzunyol Cemetery, to its west the Çıkrıkçı Quarter, to its south the mountain, and to its north the Receb and Üçler quarters. Hüsameddin's records also state that in the same quarter stood the Mesûdiye Hankâh, where Saltık Baba, one of the caliphs of Baba İlyâs, settled. That the family's graves are in this quarter, near the old Babaî hankâh, may not be coincidence; but this is an interpretation. No information was found on whether the graves of Ahmed Bey and his brother are still in place today.

Bibliography

Primary sources

  • Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 6, p. 119–119. amasya.bel.tr

Academic studies

Other sources

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