Amasya ulemâsından el-Hâc Hasan Efendi’nin mahdûmudur. Niksarlı el-Hâc İsmâil, Canikli el-Hâc Mehmed Efendilerden tahsîl-i ulûm edib ders-i âm oldu. İcâzet verdikten sonra kasabâta kadı, 1266’da meclis-i idâre ve de’âvâ a’zâsı olup 1272 senesi evâ’ilinde vefât etdi. [741] Âlim, natûk, umûr-ı idâreye vâkıf idi.
Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL
Ahmed Efendi, Hacıköylüzâde
Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 6, p. 230 • 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 was the son of Hacı Hasan Efendi, one of the scholars of Amasya. He studied under Niksarlı Hacı İsmail and Caniklili Hacı Mehmed Efendi and gave public lessons. After he was given the licence (icazet) he became kadı of small towns; in 1266 [1849-50] he became a member of the administrative and lawsuit councils, and he died in the early part of 1272 [1855-56]. He was a scholar, effective in speech and knowledgeable in matters of administration.
Notes and Research
Old Words in the Text
- ulemâ: scholars
- tahsîl-i ulûm: study of the religious sciences
- ders-i âm: the title of a madrasa professor authorised to give public lessons in mosques
- icâzet: a licence to teach and to give lessons
- kasabât: small towns
- meclis-i idâre ve de'âvâ: the councils of local administration and of lawsuits
- evâ'il: the beginning, the first days
- natûk: one who speaks, effective in speech, an orator
- umûr-ı idâre: administrative affairs
- vâkıf: knowledgeable
His Teachers
Niksarlı Hacı İsmail Efendi and Caniklili Hacı Mehmed Efendi are named as Ahmed Efendi's teachers. Niksarlı Hacı İsmail Efendi appears as a teacher also in the book's entry on Sheikh Ahmed Efendi of Ziyare. Caniklili Hacı Mehmed Efendi is named in other entries as the mufti of Amasya, very probably the same man, though the text does not say so; one of the sons of the mufti Canikli Mehmed Efendi became professor at the Hızır Paşa Madrasa. Ahmed Efendi thus appears to belong to a generation of students who were trained around a few shared teachers in Amasya. The sources state that in madrasa education, to become a professor one had to pass an examination after receiving the licence, and that the title of ders-i âm was obtained in this way.
Judgeship and Councils
The text says that after the licence Ahmed Efendi went to small towns as kadı; which towns they were and how long he stayed is not stated. Hüsameddin then writes that in 1266 he became a member of the administrative and lawsuit councils. This year corresponds to 1849-1850, which falls in the years when the structure of the provincial councils was laid down by the instruction of 1849; according to this instruction the governor, the treasurer, the judge and the mufti sat in the councils as natural members, and Muslim townspeople and non-Muslim representatives were also admitted. It may be thought that Ahmed Efendi's past as a judge played a part in his membership; but Hüsameddin does not say so, and which council is meant could not be established from the sources consulted. That the sharia judge presided over the deâvî councils at district level was regulated by the regulation of 1864; no direct link can be drawn between Ahmed Efendi's membership and that regulation.
In Other Sources
No record of Ahmed Efendi or of his father Hacı Hasan Efendi was found outside Hüsameddin. The search made on the office of the town judge turned up general studies on the place of kadis and deputy judges in judicial matters in the nineteenth century; none of them led to Ahmed Efendi's places of service.
Bibliography
- Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 6, p. 230–230. amasya.bel.tr