Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL
Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 6, p. 158 • Edited by: Doç. Dr. Recep Orhan ÖZEL - Doç. Dr. Metin HAKVERDİOĞLU
Zile Kasabasından Mûsâ oğludur. Amasya’da ulemâdan tahsîl-i ulûm edib ders-i âm, müderris, kadı oldu. Devr-i kasabât ederek 1047 hudûdunda vefât etdi.
Diğer kudâtdan Gelgiraslı Ahmed Efendi bin Mustafa da bade’t-tahsîl Amasya’da ders-i âm ve Hakala’da Kâsım Bey Müderrisi ve buradan kadı-i kasabât olup 1048 sâline doğru ahirete gitdi. Bunlar da ulemâdan idiler.
He was the son of Mûsâ from the town of Zile. He acquired learning in Amasya from the scholars and became dersiâm, müderris and kadı. Making the rounds of the town kadiships, he died around 1047 [1637-38].
Among the other kadıs, Gelgiraslı Ahmed Efendi son of Mustafa, after completing his studies, also became dersiâm in Amasya and müderris of the Kâsım Bey Madrasa in Hakala; from there he moved on to town kadiships and passed to the other world around 1048 [1638-39]. These too were among the scholars.
The path of the two kadıs in the entry is the one followed by many scholars trained in the madrasas of Amasya. A dersiâm was a müderris who, after receiving an icazet from a madrasa and passing a separate examination, gained the authority to give public lectures in mosque and madrasa. The spread of the word as a title falls in the seventeenth century; that is, these two Ahmed Efendis lived in a period when the term had only recently become established. Ottoman kadiships, for their part, were divided into two: the "mevleviyet" kadiships of the large cities and the remaining "kazâ" or town kadiships. What Hüsameddin calls "devr-i kasabât" is making the rounds, in short-term appointments, of the small districts in this second group. The great majority of those trained in provincial madrasas spent their careers in these kadiships.
Hakala, where Gelgiraslı Ahmed Efendi taught, is today the village of Yolpınar in the Suluova district; in old records it appears under names such as Hakala and Kağala and for a long time was the seat of a nahiye. The Kâsım Bey Madrasa in the village was built in the fifteenth century by Kâsım Bey; local records give its year of construction as 1464 and count the madrasa among the large madrasas of Amasya called the "forties." The madrasa stands today as a registered monument in the village center. That one became müderris in a village madrasa and from there moved to a kadiship shows that the scholarly circle of Amasya extended beyond the city walls to towns and villages.
Gelgiras, Ahmed Efendi's nisbe, is most likely the village of Karşıyaka in the Merzifon district today. The village's name appears as Gelgiras or Gelgeras in the records of 1876 and 1928; it then took the name Çatalkaya, and in 2008 became Karşıyaka. No record other than the information Hüsameddin gives was found concerning Zileli Ahmed Efendi.
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