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Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL

Ahmed Efendi — İmâret Şeyhi

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 6, p. 158 • Edited by: Doç. Dr. Recep Orhan ÖZEL - Doç. Dr. Metin HAKVERDİOĞLU

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Amasya’da tahsîl-i ulûm ederek ders-i âm oldu. 1031’de Yörgüç Paşa İmâreti şeyhi ve 1044’de Yörgüç Paşa Câmii vâ’izi olduğu halde 1051 hudûdunda vefât etdi. Âlim, vâ’iz idi. Kadızâde Ahmed Efendi bin İbrâhim Efendi ve diğer Kadızâde Ahmed Efendi bin Mehmed Efendi de 1053 sâline doğru vefât etmişlerdir. [502] Ulemâ-yı kudâtdan ve nüvvâbdan idiler.

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In Modern English

He acquired learning in Amasya and became dersiâm (a müderris who gives public lectures). In 1031 [1621-22] he was sheikh of the Yörgüç Pasha Soup Kitchen (İmâret), and in 1044 [1634-35] preacher of the Yörgüç Pasha Mosque, and he died around 1051 [1641-42]. He was a scholar and preacher. Kadızâde Ahmed Efendi, son of İbrâhim Efendi, and another Kadızâde Ahmed Efendi, son of Mehmed Efendi, also died around 1053 [1643-44]. They were among the scholars who had become kadıs and among the kadı deputies.

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • tahsîl-i ulûm: study of the sciences
  • ders-i âm: müderris who gives public lectures, having obtained this authority by examination
  • imâret: waqf soup kitchen, a place where food is given to the poor and to travelers
  • vâ'iz: one who gives counsel and preaches from the pulpit of a mosque
  • hudûd: around, in the vicinity (for a date, "approximately")
  • ulemâ-yı kudât: scholars who had served as kadıs
  • nüvvâb: kadı deputies, substitutes who look after matters in place of kadıs

The Yörgüç Pasha Complex

The Yörgüç Pasha Soup Kitchen was part of the Yörgüç Pasha Complex in Amasya. According to one study, the complex was built in 834 [1430] and, together with the mosque and the tomb attached to it, also included a madrasa, a bath, a soup kitchen and a han. Of these, the mosque and tomb are still in use today, while the madrasa, bath, soup kitchen and han have not survived (Dikmen-Toruk, 2019). The TDV entry too states that Yörgüç Pasha had a mosque, a madrasa, a soup kitchen and two baths built in Amasya, and that of these the mosques in Amasya, Gümüş, Kavak and Köprü and the bath in Tokat have survived. Accordingly, the "Yörgüç Pasha Soup Kitchen" mentioned in the text no longer stands; its name lives on in waqf records and in the lists of sheikhs relayed by Hüsameddin.

The Office of Dersiâm

According to Mehmet İpşirli's TDV entry, to become dersiâm one had to graduate from a madrasa, obtain an icazet, and then sit for one more examination. Müderrises who obtained the authority to give public lectures in this way were influential among the people. That Ahmed Efendi in the text was at once dersiâm, soup kitchen sheikh and preacher of the mosque shows that he was a scholar in direct contact with the public. No information on this person was found in other sources. As for the Kadızâde Ahmed Efendis, no record other than Hüsameddin, who gives only their names and death dates, could be found.

Bibliography

Primary sources

  • Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 6, p. 158–158. amasya.bel.tr

Academic studies

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