Amasyalıdır. Deli Emîr Paşa’nın kethüdâsı Süleyman Ağa’nın mahdûmudur. Amasya’da “Kaya Ali Paşa” demekle meşhûrdur.⁶⁸⁴ 1112 senesi şevvâlinin on ikinci günü Bağdat ordusunda bulunduğundan Amasya sancağı mutasarrıfı olup akrabasından es-Seyyid Mustafa Ağa Amasya mütesellimi oldu.
Rahtuvân Hacı Mehmed Paşa’nın ayn-ı taksîr ve ihmâlinden dolayı Amasya Alaybeyi Deli Emîr Paşazâde es-Seyyid Mustafa Bey de ma‘zûl olup Sarı Beyzâde Mehmed Bey alaybeyi oldu.
Zilka’de gurresinde Hasan Efendi Amasya kadısı oldu. Zilhicce evâilinde meşâhir-i ulemâdan Sultân Bâyezîd Müderrisi Damâd el-Hâc Osmân Efendi dâr-ı na‘îme irtihâl edib fuzalâdan Çorumlu [231] Ahmed Efendi Sultâniyye müderrisi ve bayramın üçüncü günü Müftü Mustafa Efendi’nin azliyle Amasya müftüsü oldu.
1113 senesi gurre-i muharreminde Küçük Alizâde Yeğen Ali Bey baş a‘yân olup saferinde çavuşbaşılıktan azl edilen Amasyalı Kadızâde Bodur Mustafa Ağa bin Muslî Ağa menfiyyen Amasya’ya geldi.
Rebîülevvel gurresinde Emîr Hacı nikâbetten azl edilip es-Seyyid Mahmûd Ağa nakîb kâ’im-makâmı ve Sadr-ı a’zam Ammizâde Hüseyin Paşa’nın kadîm emektarı olan baş bâkî kulu Amasyalı Görgülüoğlu es-Seyyid Hasan Ağa bin Abdullah Ağa kethüdâ-yı sadr-ı âlî oldu.⁶⁸⁵
Rebîülâhirde Amasya Mutasarrıfı Kaya Ali Paşa, selefinin i’dâmından dolayı serdâr Mustafa Paşa’dan ürkmüş ve paşayı kendisinden dîlgîr etmiş olduğundan azliyle Amasya sancağı serdar-ı müşârün-ileyhin ağalarından Serçeşme Ali Bey’e tevcîh edildi.
In Modern English
He was a native of Amasya, a son of Süleyman Ağa, steward (kethüda) of Deli Emîr Pasha. In Amasya he is known as "Kaya Ali Pasha." On the twelfth day of Şevval 1112 [1701], while he was with the army at Baghdad, he became mutasarrıf (governor) of the sanjak of Amasya; his relative es-Seyyid Mustafa Ağa became mütesellim (deputy governor) of Amasya.
Because of the plain fault and negligence of Rahtuvan Hacı Mehmed Pasha, the alaybeyi (commander of the timar-holding cavalry) of Amasya, Deli Emîr Paşazâde es-Seyyid Mustafa Bey, was also removed from his post, and Sarı Beyzâde Mehmed Bey became alaybeyi.
On the first day of Zilkade Hasan Efendi became kadı (judge) of Amasya. At the beginning of Zilhicce, among the well-known scholars, Damad el-Hâc Osman Efendi, professor of the Sultan Bayezid Madrasa, died. Çorumlu Ahmed Efendi, one of the virtuous scholars, became professor of the Sultâniyye in his place, and on the third day of the Feast of the Sacrifice, upon the dismissal of the mufti Mustafa Efendi, became mufti of Amasya.
On the first day of Muharrem 1113 [1701] Küçük Alizâde Yeğen Ali Bey became head notable (baş âyan). In Safer Kadızâde Bodur Mustafa Ağa of Amasya, son of Muslî Ağa, who had been dismissed from the chief ushership (çavuşbaşılık), came to Amasya in exile.
On the first day of Rebîülevvel Emîr Hacı was removed from the deputy naqibship, and es-Seyyid Mahmûd Ağa became deputy of the naqib (naqib kaymakamı). Görgülüoğlu es-Seyyid Hasan Ağa, son of Abdullah Ağa, of Amasya, chief of the treasury's arrears collectors (başbâkîkulu) and an old servant of Grand Vizier Amcazâde Hüseyin Pasha, also became steward of the grand vizierate.
In the month of Rebîülâhir the governor of Amasya, Kaya Ali Pasha, since he had shrunk from the commander (serdar) Mustafa Pasha because of the execution of his predecessor and had also offended the pasha, was dismissed. The sanjak of Amasya was given to Serçeşme Ali Bey, one of the commander's aghas.
Notes and Research
Old Words in the Text
- mahdûm: son
- kethüdâ: the aide who runs the affairs of a statesman, steward
- ayn-ı taksîr ve ihmâl: fault and negligence itself, plain fault
- alaybeyi: commander of the timar-holding sipahis in a sanjak
- ma'zûl: dismissed from office
- meşâhir-i ulemâ: well-known scholars
- dâr-ı na'îme irtihâl: departing for the abode of paradise, dying
- fuzalâ: virtuous scholars
- Sultâniyye: the madrasa of the Bayezid II Complex in Amasya
- menfiyyen: in exile
- nikâbet: the office of naqib al-ashraf; here, the deputy naqibship in the city
- kadîm emektar: an old man of long service
- başbâkîkulu: the head of the officials who pursue the treasury's overdue receivables
- kethüdâ-yı sadr-ı âlî: steward of the grand vizierate, the grand vizier's aide
- dîlgîr etmek: to offend, to hurt
- serdâr: the army commander assigned to a campaign
- serçeşme: the chief company commander to whom the sekban and levend company commanders in the households of pashas were attached
Kaya Ali Pasha and the Kayalı Paşazâdes
About Kaya Ali Pasha no information was found in other sources. What is known about him is limited to what Hüsameddin gives: he is the son of Süleyman Ağa, steward of Deli Emîr Pasha, of the seyyid families of Amasya, and, as noted in the footnote, the ancestor of the Kayalı Paşazâdes in Amasya. In the book's biographical volume one member of this family is treated separately: Kayalı Paşazâde es-Seyyid el-Hâc Ahmed Bey is the son of es-Seyyid el-Hâc Süleyman Bey, son of Sâlih Bey, son of Kaya Ali Pasha, of the notables of Amasya; he became a pilgrim and a member of the council of notables, served several times as deputy of the naqib al-ashraf, and died around 1236 (1820-21). Hüsameddin writes that this family is "a dynasty of the well-known notables," that Ahmed Bey's son is es-Seyyid Süleyman Pasha and his brother es-Seyyid Kâşif Ömer Pasha. Thus Kaya Ali Pasha's lineage can be traced as one of the seyyid families that served as notables and deputy naqibs in Amasya until the early nineteenth century.
That Ali Pasha was "with the Baghdad army" when he became governor of Amasya is connected with the events told in the previous entry. There it is written that the sanjak of Amasya was given, after Rahtuvan Hacı Mehmed Pasha, who was executed for arriving late at Baghdad, to "Ali Pasha, Governor of Çankırı"; the Kaya Ali Pasha of this entry is he. The pasha governed the sanjak through a mütesellim who was again from Amasya and his relative, es-Seyyid Mustafa Ağa.
The Baghdad Campaign and Daltaban Mustafa Pasha
The commander called "serdar Mustafa Pasha" in the text is Daltaban Mustafa Pasha, who in those years was governor of Baghdad and serasker of Basra. According to Abdülkadir Özcan's entry, Mustafa Pasha, a native of Manastır, was brought to the governorship of Baghdad in 1700, was assigned to retake Basra, which had fallen into Iran's hands a few years earlier, and to establish order in the region, and in 1701 recovered Qurna and Basra. Özcan also records the pasha's harsh attitude toward those around him and that his name was involved in some irregularities. The beys of the Anatolian sanjaks were obliged to bring soldiers to this campaign; that Rahtuvan Hacı Mehmed Pasha was killed at Baghdad because of his lateness shows how strict the commander was on this matter.
Hüsameddin ties Kaya Ali Pasha's dismissal directly to this event: the pasha, alarmed by his predecessor's execution, had also offended the commander, and was dismissed in Rebîülâhir 1113 (around September 1701). That the alaybeyi of Amasya, Deli Emîr Paşazâde Mustafa Bey, was also dismissed for the same negligence suggests that the campaign obligation held responsible not only the sanjak governor but also the military cadre of the sanjak. Amasya was given to Serçeşme Ali Bey, one of the commander's own men. "Serçeşme" here is not a family name but a title showing that he was head of the sekban and levend companies in the pasha's household. That the Ali Bey of Izmit called "Çingâne," reported in the next entry to have become bey of Amasya in Rebîülâhir 1113, and this Serçeşme Ali Bey are the same person is understood from the coincidence of dates.
The Professors of the Sultâniyye Madrasa
The post called "Professor of Sultân Bâyezîd" and "professor of the Sultâniyye" in the text belongs to the madrasa of the Bayezid II Complex in Amasya. According to Semavi Eyice's entry, the complex was completed, by its inscription, in Receb 891 (July 1486); its waqf deed was written in mid-Cemâziyelevvel 901 (January 1496). The deed shows the complex as consisting of a mosque, a soup kitchen (imaret), a madrasa and a children's school. The professorship of this madrasa was the most prestigious scholarly post in the city, and in Hüsameddin's book it is often seen given to the same person together with the muftiship. In this entry too, Çorumlu Ahmed Efendi, who came in place of the deceased Damad Osman Efendi, took the muftiship of Amasya as well a few days later. Ahmed Efendi's muftiship will not last long: in the next entry it is told that he was dismissed on the grounds of involvement in the fire and plunder events of 1113 and sent to Istanbul, and that after being pardoned he was killed on the road while returning from Samsun to Amasya.
Görgülüoğlu Hasan Ağa: From Steward of the Grand Vizierate to Fugitive
The entry's most striking record is the becoming of Görgülüoğlu es-Seyyid Hasan Ağa of Amasya steward of the grand vizierate of Amcazâde Hüseyin Pasha. A footnote reports that he was the brother of es-Seyyid Hüseyin Ağa, known in Amasya as "Çırçırlıoğlu." Hasan Ağa's later adventure is seen, complementing each other, in the following entries of the book and in another study. In the next entry Hüsameddin writes that in Zilhicce 1113 the steward of the grand vizierate Hasan Ağa became governor of Şehrizor with a vizierate. Dilek Seniha Cenez's thesis on Çorlulu Ali Pasha, for its part, tells that in Şaban 1114 (December 1702) a death sentence was issued against "Hasan Pasha, to whom the province of Şehrizor had been granted while he was Amcazâde Hüseyin Pasha's steward," that Kara Bayram Ağa, who carried the decree, went to the pasha's tent, that Hasan Pasha took refuge in the sekban tent, that in the brawl that broke out Bayram Ağa was shot dead, and that Hasan Pasha fled.
This flight also explains Hasan Pasha's later epithet. In entry 109 Hüsameddin writes that after the Edirne Incident of 1703 "Firârî (the Fugitive) es-Seyyid Hasan Pasha of Amasya" became deputy governor of Istanbul. In Abdülkadir Özcan's entry on the Edirne Incident too, at the head of the opposition formed against Şeyhülislâm Feyzullah Efendi, "Firârî Hasan Pasha" is counted together with Moralı Damad Hasan Pasha, Söhraplı Ahmed Pasha and the janissary agha Çalık Ahmed Ağa. When the sources are read together, it becomes clear that this pasha, who rose as Amcazâde's man, took the epithet "fugitive" by fleeing the death decree after his death, and reappeared in the revolt of 1703, was Görgülüoğlu Hasan Ağa of Amasya. This matching rests on the comparison of sources; no study dealing with Hasan Pasha's whole life was found.
The Exile of Bodur Mustafa Ağa
Kadızâde Bodur Mustafa Ağa, who was dismissed from the chief ushership in Safer 1113 and came to Amasya in exile, is the subject of entry 109 of the book. Hüsameddin will write that he became governor of Amasya in 1114 while in exile. No information about this person was found in other sources. That exiled statesmen were sent to their homelands and shortly afterward took up posts there again shows that in these years Amasya was used almost as a waiting place. In the previous entry it had been seen that Kadızâde Ahmed Pasha and Elçi Mehmed Pasha had also been exiled to Amasya.
Bibliography
Primary sources
- Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 4, p. 620–621. amasya.bel.tr
- Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, vols. 6-8, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, entry "Ahmed Bey-Kayalı Paşazâde", e-book p. 225.
Academic studies
- Abdülkadir Özcan, "Daltaban Mustafa Paşa", TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, vol. 8, 1993. https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/daltaban-mustafa-pasa
- Abdülkadir Özcan, "Edirne Vak'ası", TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, vol. 10. https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/edirne-vakasi
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