Amasyalıdır. Hâce-i sultânî Amasyalı İğnecizâde Ömer Efendi bin Mehmed Efendi bin Abdurrahman Efendi’nin mahdûm-ı sağîri olup Amasya’da doğdu. Küçük yaşında pederiyle İstanbul’a gidip orada tahsîl-i ulûm etdi.
Pederinin eyyâm-ı ikbâlinde ders-i âm ve mülâzım tedrîsi olup 1031 hâ’ilesinde muhtefî ve ba’dehû pederiyle beraber âzim-i Hicâz oldu. 1039’da pederinin irtihâlinde İstanbul’a gelip kürsî meşâyihi silkine girdi. Ve Ayasofya ders-i âmlarından oldu. Cevâmi-i şerîfe kürsilerini devrederek 1051’de Ayasofya vâ’izi oldu.
Üç yıl kadar bütün vâ’izlerin re’îs-i muhteremi olduğu halde 1054 senesi şa’bânının ondördüncü günü vefât etdiği Ayasofya’nın cihât defterinde görüldü. Âlim, sâlih, müte’abbid, natûk bir zât idi.
In Modern English
He was a native of Amasya. He was the younger son of the sultan's tutor Ömer Efendi İğnecizâde of Amasya, son of Mehmed Efendi, son of Abdurrahman Efendi; he was born in Amasya. At a young age he went with his father to Istanbul and acquired learning there.
In the days when his father was held in esteem, he taught as dersiâm and mülâzım (candidate for müderris). In the calamity of 1031 he hid, then went to the Hijaz with his father. In 1039 [1629-30], on his father's death, he came to Istanbul and entered the body of pulpit sheikhs and became one of the dersiâms of Hagia Sophia. Handing over the mosque pulpits, he became preacher of Hagia Sophia in 1051 [1641-42].
For about three years he was the respected head of all the preachers; it was seen in the revenue register of Hagia Sophia that he died on the fourteenth day of Şaban 1054 [1644]. He was a scholar, pious, much given to worship, and a fine speaker.
Notes and Research
Old Words in the Text
- hâce-i sultânî: the sultan's tutor
- mahdûm-ı sagîr: younger son
- ders-i âm: müderris who gives public lectures
- mülâzım: candidate waiting in line on the path to müderrisship
- muhtefî: hidden
- hâ'ile: calamity, great distress
- âzim-i Hicâz: one setting out for the Hijaz (Mecca and Medina)
- kürsî meşâyihi: sheikhs who teach from the pulpit in the great mosques
- vâ'iz: one who preaches
- cihât defteri: register in which waqf personnel and revenues are recorded
- müte'abbid: one who worships much
- natûk: a fine speaker
Ömer Efendi, Tutor of the Sultan
His father İğnecizâde Ömer Efendi bore the title "hâce-i sultânî," that is, tutor of the sultan. A study on the tutors of sultans writes that Osman II's tutor was Ömer Efendi of Amasya (d. 1630), that Osman II gave him the rank of şeyhülislam, and that Murad IV too took lessons from Ömer Efendi together with his brother Osman (Akgündüz, 2007). The death date of 1039 [1629-30] relayed by Hüsameddin agrees with this information. Some sources, on the other hand, write that Hoca Ömer Efendi was killed in the Haile-i Osmaniye rebellion; Hüsameddin's writing that his son hid during the calamity of 1031, went to the Hijaz with his father, and that the father died in 1039 does not square with this second view. This discrepancy in the sources has not been resolved.
The Preachership of Hagia Sophia
Ahmed Efendi's rise rested on his father's influence: he first taught at his father's side, after his death took a place at the pulpits in Istanbul, and in 1051 became preacher of Hagia Sophia. That he took the date of death from the waqf register of Hagia Sophia suggests that Hüsameddin looked directly at the Evkaf records in Istanbul; he himself served as inspector of religious buildings at the Istanbul Evkaf Directorate. No information on Ahmed Efendi was found in other sources.
Bibliography
Primary sources
- Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 6, p. 159–159. amasya.bel.tr
Books
- Murat Akgündüz, "Osmanlı Padişahlarını Yetiştiren Hocalar: Muallim-i Sultânîler", İstem, 5/9, 2007, p. 49-59.
Other sources