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Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL

Âmûl Bey — Emîr Şücâ’eddîn

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 6, p. 24 • Edited by: Doç. Dr. Recep Orhan ÖZEL - Doç. Dr. Metin HAKVERDİOĞLU

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Amasya vâlisi Şehzâde Sultân-ı Şâhen-şâh bin Sultân Mes’ûd-ı Selçûkî ümerâsından olup 580 sâline doğru vefât etdi. Torunu Hoca Bey demekle meşhûr olan Şemseddîn Ahmed Bey ibn-i Yûsuf Bey bin Emîr Âmûl Bey ma’rûfdur. Emîr mûma ileyhin çiftliği bugün Moramul köyü demekle meşhûrdur.

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In Modern English

He was one of the emirs of Prince Sultan Şahenşah, governor of Amasya (son of the Seljuk Sultan Mesud), and died around the year 580 [1184-85]. His grandson is Şemseddin Ahmed Bey, famous as Hoca Bey (son of Yusuf Bey, grandson of Emir Âmûl Bey). The farmstead of the emir in question is known today as the village of Moramul.

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • ümerâ: emirs, commanders; here, the military notables at the prince's side
  • mûma ileyh: the person mentioned, the one spoken of
  • ma'rûf: well known, famous
  • çiftlik: farmland and settlement attached to a person or family

Emir Âmûl Bey and Moramul

The entry is one of the first records in the long series Hüsameddin devotes to the emirs of Seljuk-period Amasya. The information it gives fits into two sentences: Âmûl Bey was one of the emirs of the Seljuk prince-governor of Amasya and died around 580; his grandson became known as Hoca Bey; his farmstead lives on in the name of the village of Moramul. The view that the village name derives from Âmûl Bey's name belongs to Hüsameddin. No other source explaining the origin of the name Moramul was found in this research, so this connection should be read as an opinion.

Moramul is one of the old villages of Amasya. In the Amasya population register of 1256 AH [1840], the households are recorded with the nisbe "Moramullu"; that is, the village name was in use in a form close to today's at the latest in the early nineteenth century. This record dates from six centuries after Âmûl Bey's time and does not confirm the claim about the farmstead; it only shows that the name was established.

The identity of Prince Sultan Şahenşah, named in the text, must also be asked about separately. In the general sources describing the Seljuk period of Amasya, the city fell to Nizâmeddin Argun Şah in the division among the sons made toward the end of the reign of Kılıcarslan II, and his brother Rükneddin Süleyman, the lord of Tokat, took it by force. No Amasya governor named Şahenşah appears in this account. The name Hüsameddin gives and the information about an "emir who died around 580" have therefore not been confirmed by the general historiography available to us. The author states that he takes such records mostly from waqf deeds, inscriptions and local genealogical notes; for this entry, however, he has not named a document.

Bibliography

Primary sources

  • Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 6, p. 24–24. amasya.bel.tr

Academic studies

Official sources

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