Amasya’da Gürcü İmâm el-Hâc Hasan Efendi’den ve Kadızâde Küçük Mehmed Efendi’den tahsîl-i ulûm ederek ders-i âm oldu. Medâris-i mu’tâdeyi devredib elli akçe ile Hüseyin Ağa müderrisi, ba’dehû Halvetîye Şeyhi Îcâdîzâde eş-Şeyh Hızır Efendi’nin Halvet-hânesinde [534] tasfiye-i derûn edib hilâfet-nâme aldı.
Ba’dehû Müftüzâde Tekkesi şeyhi ve Sarachâne Câmii vâ’izi olduğu halde 1071 senesi ramazânında vefât etdi. Ulûm-i şer’iyyede mâhir, gâyet müteşerri’, zâhid, vâ’iz bir şeyh-i muhterem idi. Meşâhîr-i sulehâdandır.
In Modern English
In Amasya he acquired learning from Gürcü İmam el-Hâc Hasan Efendi and from Kadızâde Küçük Mehmed Efendi, and became a müderris giving lectures open to all (ders-i âm). Passing through the usual madrasa grades in order, he became müderris of the Hüseyin Ağa with fifty akçe. Then, in the halvet cell of İcâdîzâde eş-Şeyh Hızır Efendi, sheikh of the Halvetiyye order, he purified his inner world and received a hilâfetname (certificate of permission to act as sheikh).
Later, while sheikh of the Müftüzâde Tekke and preacher of the Saraçhane Mosque, he died in Ramazan 1071 [1661]. He was a respected sheikh, a master of the religious sciences, extremely devoted to the religious rulings, an ascetic and a preacher. He is among the famous of the righteous.
Notes and Research
Old Words in the Text
- ders-i âm: müderris giving lectures open to all
- medâris-i mu'tâde: the usual order of madrasa grades
- tasfiye-i derûn: purification of the inner world, of the heart; in Sufism, discipline of the self
- halvethane: room in which a disciple of an order withdraws into seclusion
- hilâfetname: document a sheikh gives his disciple showing authority to guide others
- müteşerri': strictly bound to the sharia
- meşâhîr-i sulehâ: famous righteous persons
About This Sheikh
Hüsameddin presents Bafralı Ahmed Efendi as a person who passed through both the madrasa and the tekke path. First he climbed the müderris ranks, then, trained under a Halvetî sheikh, he received permission to be a sheikh, and finally he became sheikh of a tekke and preacher of a mosque. Hâc Hasan Efendi, who is named in the text, is also mentioned as a teacher in entry no. 546 of the same volume (Ahmed Efendi-Zileli Muharremzâde); from this it appears that two scholars of Amasya took lessons from the same Gürcü imam.
For Ahmed Efendi's teachers, his sheikh and his date of death, no source other than Hüsameddin was found. The present state of the Müftüzâde Tekke and the Saraçhane Mosque could not be verified in this research either.
Bibliography
- Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 6, p. 167–167. amasya.bel.tr