AMASYA 05

Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL

Ahmed Efendi, Mecdî Hâce

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 6, p. 228 • Edited by: Doç. Dr. Recep Orhan ÖZEL - Doç. Dr. Metin HAKVERDİOĞLU

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Amasya dâhilinde Mecitözü kazâsı kurrâsından olup İbrâhim’in oğludur. Fâzıl-ı meşhûr Sipâhizâde şeyhü’l-ulemâ el-Hâc Hâfız Ömer Efendi’den ikmâl-i tahsîl edib mücâz ve ders-i âm oldu. Ba’dehû Narlıbahçe’de Türedîzâde el-Hâc Süleyman Ağa’nın binâ etdiği Süleymaniyye Medresesi müderrisi olduğu halde 1259’da vefât etdi. Meşâhîr-i ulemâdan vâ’iz, fakîh, münzevî bir zât idi. Narlıbahçe mezârlığında medfûndur.

Our Research Article Editor: Mevlüt Erdem Öztürk

In Modern English

He came from one of the villages of the district of Mecitözü, within Amasya; he was the son of İbrâhim. He completed his studies under the noted scholar Sipâhizâde şeyhülulemâ (senior scholar) el-Hâc Hâfız Ömer Efendi, received his icâzet and gave public lessons. He was later müderris (madrasa professor) of the Süleymâniyye Madrasa, which Türedîzâde el-Hâc Süleyman Ağa had built in Narlıbahçe, and he died in that post in 1259 [1843-44]. He was among the noted scholars: a preacher, a jurist, a man who lived in seclusion. He is buried in the Narlıbahçe cemetery.

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • kazâ: district, a subdivision of a sanjak
  • kurrâ: villages
  • fâzıl-ı meşhûr: noted scholar
  • şeyhü'l-ulemâ: head of the scholars, the most senior scholar
  • mücâz: holder of an icâzet, licensed to teach
  • ders-i âm: teaching publicly, with permission
  • müderris: madrasa professor
  • vâ'iz: preacher, one who gives sermons
  • fakîh: jurist, scholar of fıkıh
  • münzevî: one who lives in seclusion, away from society
  • medfûn: buried

Mecitözü and the Süleymâniyye Madrasa

For a long time Mecitözü was a district of the Amasya sanjak; at the end of the nineteenth century it is counted as one of the sanjak's eight districts. Today it belongs to the province of Çorum; before it was attached to Çorum in 1916 it was for a long time under the administration of Amasya, within Sivas. Among the historic buildings of the district are the Elvan Çelebi Mosque (1352), its tomb and its bath. Since Hüsameddin does not give the name of Ahmed Efendi's village, it is not known which village it was.

The terms "ders-i âm" and "mücâz" refer to receiving an icâzet from a teacher in order to teach. The title "şeyhülulemâ" used for Ömer Efendi suggests that he was counted among the most senior scholars of Amasya. The Süleymâniyye Madrasa is not mentioned in the list of twentieth-century Amasya madrasas that Telli reports; it may have been a small institution built by a benefactor in Narlıbahçe. This guess could not be verified.

No information on Ahmed Efendi, on Sipâhizâde Ömer Efendi, on Türedîzâde Süleyman Ağa, or on the madrasa and cemetery of Narlıbahçe was found in other sources.

Bibliography

Primary sources

  • Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 6, p. 228–228. amasya.bel.tr

Academic studies

Official sources

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