Hızır ve Mehmed Paşalar evkâfına mütevellî olan el-Hâc Hüseyin Bey bin el-Hâc Ahmed Bey’in mahdûmu olup 1157’de pederinin vefâtı ile ceddi evkâfına mütevellî olduğu halde 1175’de vefât etdi. Kibâr-ı a’yândan ve meclis-i a’yân azâsından kerîm, küşâde-meşreb bir hânedân idi.
Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL
Ahmed Bey — Kurdzâde es-Seyyid
Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 6, p. 204 • Edited by: Doç. Dr. Recep Orhan ÖZEL - Doç. Dr. Metin HAKVERDİOĞLU
Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)
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Editor: Mevlüt Erdem Öztürk
In Modern English
He is the son of Hacı Hüseyin Bey, trustee of the waqfs of Hızır Pasha and Mehmed Pasha, and the grandson of Hacı Ahmed Bey. On the death of his father in 1157 [1744-45] he became trustee of his grandfather's waqfs, and he died in this post in 1175 [1761-62]. He was one of the great notables and a member of the council of notables; he belonged to a generous and outspoken family.
Notes and Research
Old Words in the Text
- mütevellî: the person who manages the affairs of a waqf
- evkâf: waqfs
- mahdûm: son
- ceddi: his grandfather
- kibâr-ı a'yân: the leading notables, the great notables
- meclis-i a'yân: the advisory and governing body made up of the city's leading men
- küşâde-meşreb: open-hearted, generous and easygoing by nature
- hânedân: a noble, long-established family
A Short Entry
The entry is less a biography than a record of a waqf family: his lineage and waqf duty come to the fore rather than his own affairs. Hüsameddin gives in a single sentence a chain of three generations, beginning with Hacı Ahmed Bey and reaching his grandson, and thus shows that the trusteeship passed within the family from father to son. The entry's other detail is that membership of the council of notables went side by side with waqf duties in this family.
The text does not say which buildings the waqfs covered. The next entry, Meydan Ağası Ahmed Ağa, belongs to the same milieu as this entry, since he is from the Hızır Pasha quarter. No information was found in other sources about these waqfs or this person.
Bibliography
- Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 6, p. 204–204. amasya.bel.tr