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Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL

Ahmed Bey — Tâceddîn Paşazâde

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 6, p. 129 • Edited by: Doç. Dr. Recep Orhan ÖZEL - Doç. Dr. Metin HAKVERDİOĞLU

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Amasyalıdır. “Tâci Bey” demekle meşhûr Tâceddîn İbrâhim Paşa bin Safâ Çelebi bin Gâzi Mehmed Bey eş-Şeyh Alâeddîn Ali bin İbrâhim eş-Şirvânî mahdûmudur. Pederinin Kedağra ya’nî Köprü’de yaptırdığı câmi-i şerîfi vakf-ı mütevellîsi ve nâzırı ve ba’dehû Kedağra Emîri olduğu hâlde yıllarca orada kaldı. 930 sâline doğru vefât etdi. Mahdûmu Ekmel Bey de ümerâdandır.

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In Modern English

He was from Amasya. He was the son of Tâceddîn İbrâhim Pasha, known as "Tâci Bey," son of Safâ Çelebi, son of Gâzi Mehmed Bey, son of eş-Şeyh Alâeddîn Ali, son of İbrâhim eş-Şirvânî. He was mütevelli and nâzır of the waqf of the mosque his father had built at Kedağra, that is, Köprü, and then remained there for years as emir of Kedağra. He died around 930 [1523-24]. His son Ekmel Bey is also among the beys.

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • mahdûm: son
  • vakf-ı mütevellî: the official who runs a waqf
  • nâzır: the person who supervises the affairs of a waqf
  • emîr: bey, the military and administrative governor of a place
  • sâl: year
  • ümerâ: beys

The Family of Tâcî Bey

Ahmed Bey's father Tâcî Bey is the founder of one of the best-known families of fifteenth-century Amasya. In the sources Tâcî Bey is mentioned under the names Mîr Tâcî and Tâc Bey. While şehremini (city prefect) in Amasya, he served as defterdar during Bayezid II's princely years in that city and also held the post of seraskerlik of Amasya; Âşık Çelebi also records that he acted as lala to the prince. He is known to have been a poet, münşî (writer of official prose), and calligrapher, but apart from a few couplets and a few ghazals included in nazire anthologies, none of his work has survived. According to the chronogram lines at the end of the Münşeât of his son Sa'dî Çelebi, his death date is 890 [1485].

The genealogy Hüsameddin gives here is the same as the genealogy in his work Nişancılar Durağı: there Câfer Çelebi is introduced as "the son of Hacı Beğzâde Tâceddin İbrâhim Pasha, beylerbeyi of Kefe, famous as Tâci Beğ, son of Safiyyüddin Mustafa Çelebi, son of Gâzî Mehmed Beğ, son of eş-Şeyh Alâeddin Ali, son of İbrâhim." According to this record, Ahmed Bey in the entry is the brother of Tâcîzâde Câfer Çelebi, nişancı and kazasker and one of the great names of Ottoman divan prose, and of Tâcîzâde Sa'dî Çelebi, poet and müderris. Câfer Çelebi was born in Amasya in 856 [1452] and was executed in 921 [1515] by Selim the Grim. Present-day researchers note that among the persons in this genealogy the only one about whom information exists in other sources is Tâcî Bey; no record of Ahmed Bey was found outside Hüsameddin either.

The Mosque at Köprü: the Taceddin Pasha (Kurşunlu) Mosque

The place Hüsameddin calls "Kedağra, that is, Köprü" is today the Vezirköprü district of Samsun. The mosque of which Ahmed Bey was mütevelli must be the building in the Çanaklı quarter of Vezirköprü today known as the Taceddin Pasha or Kurşunlu Mosque. The mosque has no building inscription. According to its Arabic waqf deed of 27 Şaban 900 (23 May 1495) in the General Directorate of Foundations, the building was built by İbrâhim Pasha, son of Hacı Beyzâde Mevlânâ Safiyyüddin. This name matches exactly the genealogy Hüsameddin gives.

The waqf deed describes the building as an "imaret" and speaks of three parts: two-room tabhanes (guest lodgings) with a sofa in front for guests, the mosque, and annexes such as the kitchen, bakery, pantry, storehouse, stable, and ablution place. Today a mosque with side spaces, with a şadırvan in front, stands within a large courtyard. The building was heavily damaged in the 1943 earthquake; the dome in front of the mihrab, the last-congregation porch, and the minaret collapsed, and in 1955 it was simply repaired by the people of the quarter with a wooden ceiling and a tiled roof. With the restoration begun by the General Directorate of Foundations in 1989 and ended around 2000 after long pauses, an attempt was made to bring it closer to its original form. The domed zaviyes at the sides of the main space are original.

A Discrepancy in Dates

There is a noteworthy point: while Tâcî Bey's death date is given in the sources as 890 [1485], the waqf deed of the mosque in Vezirköprü is dated 900 [1495]; some local records say the building was built in 1494. Hüsameddin, however, calls the mosque one "his father had built." It is possible that the waqf deed was drawn up after the father's death, perhaps as a renewal or registration; but no document confirming this was found, and it is not impossible that there is an error in one of the dates. Ahmed Bey's remaining there for years as mütevelli and emir of Kedağra shows that the family kept its tie to this waqf and this town until the first quarter of the sixteenth century.

Bibliography

Primary sources

  • Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 6, p. 129–129. amasya.bel.tr

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