AMASYA 05

Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL

Ahmed Efendi, Milaslı Hâfız

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 6, p. 227 • Edited by: Doç. Dr. Recep Orhan ÖZEL - Doç. Dr. Metin HAKVERDİOĞLU

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Milas kasabasından Ömer bin Osmân’ın oğludur. Amasya’ya gelip Payaslı el-Hâc Mehmed Efendi’den ikmâl-i tahsîl ederek mücâz ve ders-i âm oldu. Yıllarca tedrîs-i ulûm ederek iştihâr edib Benderli Hâfız el-Hâc Mehmed Efendi’nin vefâtında Benderli Hâfız Feyzullah Ağa’nın medresesi müderrisi oldu. 1253’de [731] vefât etdi. Meşâhîr-i ulemâdandı.

Our Research Article Editor: Mevlüt Erdem Öztürk

In Modern English

He was the son of Osmân, son of Ömer, from the town of Milas. He came to Amasya, completed his studies under Payaslı el-Hâc Mehmed Efendi, received his icâzet and began to give public lessons. After teaching for years and gaining a reputation, on the death of Benderli Hâfız el-Hâc Mehmed Efendi he became müderris (madrasa professor) of the madrasa of Benderli Hâfız Feyzullah Ağa. He died in 1253 [1837-38]. He was among the noted scholars.

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • ikmâl-i tahsîl: completing one's studies
  • mücâz: holder of an icâzet, licensed to teach
  • ders-i âm: teaching publicly, with permission
  • tedrîs-i ulûm: teaching the sciences
  • iştihâr: gaining a reputation
  • müderris: madrasa professor

The Benderli Madrasa

Benderli is named among the Amasya madrasas that were repaired in the nineteenth century and went on teaching; it also appears as a separate institution when the madrasas that taught in Amasya in the twentieth century are listed. It is a different building from the Büyük Ağa (Hüseyniye) and Küçük Ağa madrasas. Hüsameddin calls it "the madrasa of Benderli Hâfız Feyzullah Ağa"; no other information on the identity of Feyzullah Ağa or on the location of the madrasa could be read.

Hâfız Ahmed Efendi of Milas was a student who came to Amasya from western Anatolia to study. Mustafa Vâzıh Efendi, who wrote that in the early nineteenth century the city was a "city of students", and the traveller Perrot, who reported that nearly two thousand students were studying in its madrasas in 1861, make the place of students from afar in Amasya understandable.

Those who completed madrasa education successfully were given an icâzet; in the Ottoman system what counted was not which madrasa one attended but under which teacher one studied. The terms "mücâz" and "ders-i âm" in the entry belong to this tradition. Payaslı el-Hâc Mehmed Efendi is named as Ahmed Efendi's teacher; the same teacher also appears in entries 750 and 757.

No information on Ahmed Efendi, on Benderli Hâfız el-Hâc Mehmed Efendi or on Feyzullah Ağa was found in other sources.

Bibliography

Primary sources

  • Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 6, p. 227–227. amasya.bel.tr

Academic studies

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