AMASYA 05

Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL

Ahmed Efendi, Kadızâde

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 6, p. 155 • Edited by: Doç. Dr. Recep Orhan ÖZEL - Doç. Dr. Metin HAKVERDİOĞLU

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Amasya kadısı Mustafa Efendi’nin büyük mahdûmudur. Amasya fuzalâsından Şeyhzâde Veliyyüddîn Efendi’den tahsîl-i ulûm edib ders-i âm, ba’dehû Atabeg Gâzi Müderrisi oldu. Sonra tarîk-ı kazâya girip Zile, Çorum gibi bilâda kadı oldu. 1035 sâlinden sonra vefât etdi. Ulemâdandır. Mahdûmu vüzerâdan Nişancı Sıdkı Mustafa Paşa’dır. Biraderleri Abdullah, Abdülkerîm, Mehmed Efendilerdir.

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In Modern English

He was the eldest son of Mustafa Efendi, judge of Amasya. Having studied under Şeyhzâde Veliyyüddîn Efendi, one of the virtuous scholars of Amasya, he became dersiâm and then müderris of the Atabeg Gâzi Madrasa. Then he entered the career of the judgeship and served as judge in cities such as Zile and Çorum. He died after 1035 [1625-26]. He was one of the scholars. His son is Nişancı Sıdkı Mustafa Pasha, one of the viziers. His brothers were Abdullah, Abdülkerîm, and Mehmed Efendis.

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • mahdûm: son
  • fuzalâ: virtuous people, scholars
  • ders-i âm: a müderris who gave lessons open to everyone in a mosque, dersiâm
  • tarîk-ı kazâ: the profession of the judgeship
  • bilâd: cities

The Atabeg Gâzi Madrasa

The madrasa where Ahmed Efendi was müderris is the Atabey (Atabekiye) Madrasa, which the emir of Amasya Nâsırüddin Ahmed had built in 1322, in the Ilkhanid period, with five rooms, a lecture hall, and a garden. In some studies it is recorded that the line of Yörgüç Pasha, one of Amasya's great benefactors, is also traced back to this Atabeg Nâsırüddin Ahmed. The Atabey Madrasa was a long-lived institution; a study on the müderrises of Amasya counts it among the madrasas that continued to give instruction in Amasya in the twentieth century.

His Son Sıdkı Mustafa Pasha

The real importance of the entry is that Ahmed Efendi was the father of Sıdkı Mustafa Pasha, one of the well-known statesmen of the seventeenth century. In later volumes of his work Hüsameddin devotes a long entry to Sıdkı Mustafa Pasha and there introduces his father as "Ahmed Efendi of Amasya, from the Fethiye quarter and the class of judges, son of Mustafa Efendi, judge of Amasya." According to the same entry, Sıdkı Mustafa learned learning, manners, and fine writing beside his paternal uncle Küçük Mehmed Ali Efendi; after teaching for a while he moved to the chancery career as divan clerk of Hâce Ahmed Pasha of Amasya. In 1047 he became reisülküttap and was brought to this post four times; in 1057 and 1065 he became nişancı twice, then governor of Timişvar, and in 1066 received the vizierate. He died in Muharram 1073. Hüsameddin also writes, relying on the sharia court registers, that he repaired the Fethiye Mosque in the quarter where he was born and had a school built beside it. The Mehmed Efendi counted among his brothers in this entry is probably the same person as the "Küçük Mehmed Ali Efendi" who raised Sıdkı Mustafa Pasha; however, no record stating this openly was seen.

No information was found in other sources on his teacher Şeyhzâde Veliyyüddîn Efendi.

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