Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL
Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 6, p. 162 • Edited by: Doç. Dr. Recep Orhan ÖZEL - Doç. Dr. Metin HAKVERDİOĞLU
Amasya’da Halvetî’ye meşâyihinden Ya’kûb Efendi’nin mahdûmu ve Müftü-i meşhûr el-Hâc Mustafa Efendi’nin birâderidir. Fuzalâdan Kadızâde Küçük Hoca Mehmed İlmî Efendi’den ikmâl-i tahsîl ederek ders-i âm oldu.
Tedris-i ulûma hasr-ı işgâl ederek mükerreren icâzet verdi. Medâris-i Amasya’dan bir kaçına müderris olduktan sonra Mehmed Paşa Câmii kürsî şeyhi olup 1068 zilka’desinde dâr-ı nâ’îme rihlet etdi. Meşâhîr-i ulemâdan va’iz, natûk, vecîh bir zât idi. Mahdûmu Ya’kûb Efendi de ulemâdandır.
He was the son of Ya'kûb Efendi, one of the Halvetî sheikhs in Amasya, and the brother of the famous mufti el-Hâc Mustafa Efendi. Having completed his education under Kadızâde Küçük Hoca Mehmed İlmî Efendi, one of the scholars, he became a scholar who gave lectures open to everyone (ders-i âm).
Devoting himself to teaching the sciences, he granted icâzet (a certificate of authority to teach) many times. After serving as müderris at several of the madrasas of Amasya, he became pulpit sheikh of the Mehmed Pasha Mosque and died in Zilka'de 1068 [1658]. He was one of the famous scholars, a preacher, a fine speaker and a person of standing. His son Ya'kûb Efendi too is among the scholars.
The Mehmed Pasha Mosque, where Ya'kûbzâde was pulpit sheikh, is in the Mehmed Pasha quarter near the Yeşilırmak in Amasya. Its builder is Hızır Paşazâde Mehmed Pasha, vizier of Bayezid II and lala of Prince Ahmed (d. 900/1495). According to the inscription over the main door, the structure was completed in Muharrem 891 (January 1486). Of the complex made up of a mosque, madrasa, soup kitchen, tomb, tabhane, zâviye, fountain and cemetery, only the mosque, its side annexes and the tomb have reached the present. The structure was damaged in the earthquake of 1939 and repaired by the General Directorate of Foundations. Among the madrasas in which Hüsameddin says "after becoming müderris at several of the madrasas of Amasya" there may be the Mehmed Pasha Madrasa belonging to the same complex; but the text does not write at which madrasas he taught.
The pulpit sheikhship was a post given in the Ottoman learned establishment to scholars who preached and taught in the great mosques. In research on this post, the mosques listed are in Istanbul; for this reason it is noteworthy that the pulpit sheikhship is mentioned at the Mehmed Pasha Mosque in Amasya too. How the post worked in the provinces is not explained in the sources that could be read. That Ahmed Efendi's father was a Halvetî sheikh is also significant. Amasya is one of the Anatolian cities where the Halvetiyye order was most widespread. A Mehmed Pasha Lodge is also known in the city; the Mehmed Pasha Madrasa and the lodge of Habib-i Karamânî were built together and were run by Halvetî müderrises.
No detailed information was found in the sources that could be read about the Halvetî sheikh Ya'kûb Efendi, the mufti el-Hâc Mustafa Efendi and the son Ya'kûb Efendi. Since there are also other sheikhs bearing the name Yâkub among the Halvetîs of Amasya (for example Yâkub Efendi, who founded the Kuşbaz Lodge in 961/1554), which of them this person is could not be determined. For his teacher Küçük Hoca Mehmed İlmî Efendi, see the explanations in the previous entry.
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