AMASYA 05

Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL

Ahmed Efendi-Çelebizâde

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 6, p. 221 • Edited by: Doç. Dr. Recep Orhan ÖZEL - Doç. Dr. Metin HAKVERDİOĞLU

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Fuzalâdan el-Hâc Hüseyin Efendi’nin mahdûmudur. Pederinden ve Allâme Ürgüblü el-Hâc Ahmed Efendi’den ahz-ı ulûm ederek ders-i âm olup 1207’de Sarâc-hâne ittisâlinde Amasya mütesellimi el-Hâc Mustafa Ağa’nın binâ etdiği medresenin müderrisi Süleyman Efendi’nin vefâtına binâ’en medrese-i mezkûre müderrisi ve ba’zı müftülerin müsevvidi olduğu halde 1224 senesi hilâlinde vefât etdi. Âlim, fakîh ve vâ’iz bir zât idi.

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In Modern English

He was a son of Hacı Hüseyin Efendi, one of the learned men. Having gained learning from his father and from the great scholar Hacı Ahmed Efendi of Ürgüp, he became a ders-i âm. In 1207 [1792-93], on the death of Süleyman Efendi, the professor of the madrasa built beside Sarachane by Hacı Mustafa Ağa, mütesellim of Amasya, he became professor of this madrasa and the drafter (müsevvid) of the fatwa drafts of some muftis. He died at the beginning of 1224 [1809]. He was a scholar, a jurist and a preacher.

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • fuzalâ: the learned, scholars
  • ahz-ı ulûm: acquiring learning
  • ders-i âm: a madrasa professor with authority to give general lectures
  • Sarâc-hâne: the place where saddlers worked; saraçhane
  • müsevvid: the person who writes the draft of a fatwa
  • allâme: very learned, a great scholar
  • fakîh: a scholar of Islamic law
  • vâ'iz: a religious preacher

The Madrasa Built by the Mütesellim

The entry reports that in 1792-93 Hacı Mustafa Ağa, mütesellim of Amasya, had a madrasa built beside the saddlers' quarter. The mütesellim is the official who collected taxes as the deputy of the sanjak governor; here we see such a local administrator having a madrasa built. In searches about the present state of the madrasa, no verifiable source could be found.

It is understood that on the death of the professor Süleyman Efendi, Çelebizâde Ahmed Efendi took his place. That this man was also the müsevvid of some muftis shows that he worked as an assistant to muftis in writing fatwas. No separate source was found on Hacı Ahmed Efendi of Ürgüp; he is also named as his teacher in entry no. 722. No information on this person was found in other sources.

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