Pervâne Bey vakfı mütevellîsi Yahyâ Efendi bin Habib Efendi bin Abdülvasi Çelebi bin Habib Çelebi bin Pîrî Ahmed Efendi bin Yahyâ Efendi bin Abdülvasi Çelebi bin Şemseddîn Ahmed Efendi bin Mehmed Çelebi bin Mü’eyyed Çelebi mahdûmudur. Mü’eyyedzâdelerdendir.
Büyük birâderi es-Seyyid Hâfız Mehmed ve Halfet Gâzi müderrisi eş-Şeyh Mahmûd Efendilerden ahz-ı ulûm ederek ders-i âm [634] ve üstâdının vefâtında Halfet Gâzi müderrisi, 1140’da Ya’kûb Paşa ve 1141’de Pervâne Bey vâkıflarına mütevellî 1147’de müsevvid ve eminü’l-fetvâ oldu.
Bu me’mûriyyetinde fazilet-i ilmiyyesi zâhir olup 1155’de Fîrûz Ağa Vakfı’nın tevliyeti nizâ’ında bâ-fermân-ı âlî müvellâ ve müte’âkib Amasya kadısı Fazlullah Efendi tarafından Amasya nâibi oldu. Niyâbeti hitâmında tedrîsine devam edib 1159 senesi rebîülahirinin yedisinde vefât etdi.
Âlim, fâzıl, edîb, “Hamdî” mahlasıyla şâir, ulûm-ı şer’iyyede mâhir, hasîb, talik-nüvîs bir zât idi. “Mu’înü’l-vâ’izîn” adlı bir eseri vardır. Zaman-ı tevliyetinde Pervâne Bey Câmii ve minâresini imâr ve ihyâ etdi. Diğer birâderi es-Seyyid Muhyiddîn Habib Efendi de âlim ve hattât idi.
Mahdûmları es-Seyyid Yahya, Mahmûd, Abdullah Efendilerdir. Bunların siyâdetleri ana tarafından Havzalızâdelere müntehîdir. Es-Seyyid Mahmûd Efendi’nin oğulları es-Seyyid İsmâil, Ahmed, Abdullah Efendilerdir. Es-Seyyid Abdullah Efendizâde, es-Seyyid el-Hâc Mustafa Efendi fuzalâdandır. [635]
In Modern English
He was the son of Yahyâ Efendi, mütevelli of the Pervâne Bey Waqf. Yahyâ Efendi was the son of Habib Efendi; he of Abdülvâsi Çelebi; he of Habib Çelebi; he of Pîrî Ahmed Efendi; he of Yahyâ Efendi; he of Abdülvâsi Çelebi; he of Şemseddîn Ahmed Efendi; he of Mehmed Çelebi; and he the son of Mü'eyyed Çelebi. He is of the Mü'eyyedzâdes.
He studied with his elder brother es-Seyyid Hâfız Mehmed and with eş-Şeyh Mahmûd Efendi, müderris of the Halfet Gâzi, and gave public lectures. On his master's death he became müderris of the Halfet Gâzi. In 1140 [1727-28] he became mütevelli of the Yâ'kûb Pasha waqfs, in 1141 [1728-29] of the Pervâne Bey waqfs, and in 1147 [1734-35] müsevvid and eminü'l-fetvâ.
In this post his scholarly superiority came to light. In 1155 [1742-43], in the dispute over the tevliyet of the Fîrûz Ağa Waqf, he was installed by imperial decree, and right afterward the kadı of Amasya, Fazlullah Efendi, made him nâib of Amasya. At the end of his term as nâib he continued to teach, and he died on the seventh of Rebîülâhir 1159 [1746].
He was a scholar, a Fâzıl, a man of letters, a poet under the pen name "Hamdî", a master of the religious sciences, skilled in arithmetic, and a writer of the talik script. He has a work called "Mu'înü'l-vâ'izîn". While mütevelli he repaired and revived the Pervâne Bey Mosque and its minaret. His other brother, es-Seyyid Muhyiddîn Habib Efendi, was also a scholar and calligrapher.
His sons are es-Seyyid Yahya, Mahmûd and Abdullah Efendis. Their sayyid status rests on the maternal side, on the Havzalızâdes. The sons of es-Seyyid Mahmûd Efendi are es-Seyyid İsmâil, Ahmed and Abdullah Efendis. The son of es-Seyyid Abdullah Efendi, es-Seyyid el-Hâc Mustafa Efendi, is among the Fâzıls.
Notes and Research
Old Words in the Text
- mütevelli: person who runs the affairs of a waqf
- ders-i âm: public lecture
- müsevvid, eminü'l-fetvâ: posts concerned with fetva work in the office of the mufti
- nizâ': dispute
- nâib: judicial official who stands in for the kadı
- hasîb: skilled in arithmetic
- talik-nüvîs: writer of the talik script
- mahlas: pen name a poet uses in his poems
- siyâdet: sayyid status, descent from the Prophet
The Pervâne Bey Mosque
The building, also known as the Burmalı Minare Mosque (Mosque of the Twisted Minaret), is among the oldest Turkish mosques of Amasya. According to its inscription, it was built in the time of the Seljuk Sultan Gıyâseddin Keyhusrev II (1237-1246) by Ferruh, one of his emirs. According to the information Hüsameddin gives, İzzeddin Mehmed Pervâne Bey, son-in-law of Ferruh Bey, drew up a waqf deed in 699 [1299-1300], and the post of mütevelli later passed to the Mü'eyyedzâdes. The mosque was damaged by an earthquake in 999 [1590-91] and burned in 1011 [1602-03]; the mütevelli Mü'eyyedzâde Pîrî Çelebi had the building repaired and a wooden minaret built. When it burned again in 1143 [1730-31], Hacı Ahmed Efendi had it repaired and a stone minaret built.
Semavi Eyice, who wrote on the mosque, bases these dates on Hüsameddin and notes that he cites no source for any of the information. Eyice also does not find Hüsameddin's equating this mosque with the Mahkeme Mosque described by Evliya Çelebi sufficiently convincing. He also finds it hard to accept that the twisted minaret dates from the 1730s; in his view the minaret belongs to the mosque's own period or the early Ottoman period.
In the entry the repair of the minaret is attributed to the mütevelli Yahyâ Efendi. In the record Eyice relays, however, it is written that after the fire of 1143 [1730-31] the repair was had done by Hacı Ahmed Efendi. The two accounts may mean the same repair; no document explaining this was seen.
The mosque stayed in ruin for a long time and in the 1930s was used as the agricultural implements depot of the Ziraat Bank. It was repaired and opened to worship in 1962, and its domes were covered with copper in 1974. The upper floor of the mausoleum beside it was made into a library in 1147 [1734-35] by Hıfzızâde Hacı Osman Fâik Efendi; the books were later dispersed.
The Mü'eyyedzâdes
The Mü'eyyedzâdes are a family that, besides the Pervâne Bey Waqf, also undertook the mütevelliship of the Yâkub Pasha (Çilehâne) Dervish Lodge: when the line of the first mütevelli died out, the mütevelliship of this lodge passed to Mü'eyyed Çelebi and his children. In the text, Yahyâ Efendi's becoming mütevelli of the Yâ'kûb Pasha waqf in 1140 is a continuation of this family tradition. No information on the poems Ahmed Efendi wrote under the pen name "Hamdî" or on his work "Mu'înü'l-vâ'izîn" was found in other sources.
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