AMASYA 05

Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL

Aydın Bey — Emîr Ziyâ’eddîn

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 6, p. 25 • Edited by: Doç. Dr. Recep Orhan ÖZEL - Doç. Dr. Metin HAKVERDİOĞLU

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Amasyalıdır. Ümerâdan İltekin oğlu Alâeddîn Ali Bey bin Hüsâmü’d-devle Hasan Bey bin Emîr Nâsirü’d-devle İltekin [49] Gâzi mahdûmudur. Selçukîyye ümerâsından olup 610 sâlinden sonra vefât etdi. Ceddînin vakfeylediği Saz Çiftliği bunun mâlikânesi idi. Bu mâlikâneye evlâdı tevliyetle mutasarrıf olmuşlardı. Mahdûmu Mehmed Bey’dir.

Our Research Article Editor: Mevlüt Erdem Öztürk

In Modern English

He was a native of Amasya. He is Alâeddin Ali Bey, son of the emir İltekin; he was the son of Hüsâmeddevle Hasan Bey, who in turn was the son of Emir Nâsırüddevle İltekin Gazi. He was one of the Seljuk emirs; he died after the year 610 [1213-14]. The Saz Farmstead, which his grandfather had endowed as a waqf, was his property. His children came to hold this property through the office of mütevelli. His son is Mehmed Bey.

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • ümerâ: emirs
  • mâlikâne: a place held as property, and its revenue
  • cedd: ancestor, grandfather
  • tevliyet: the administration of a waqf, the office of mütevelli
  • mutasarrıf: the person who uses and administers a property

İltekin Gazi and the Saz Farmstead

İltekin Gazi, named in the entry, is known as one of the Danishmendid emirs of Amasya. His name lives on today in the stone bridge about five kilometers from the city center: the Çağlayan or İltekin Gazi Bridge is of cut stone, has six arches and is about seventy meters long, and İltekin Gazi's grave is said to be beside it. The date of the bridge's construction is not certain; for this reason it was not possible to test the genealogical order Hüsameddin gives (İltekin, Hasan Bey, Ali Bey) against the dates.

The real information of the entry concerns the arrangement of waqf and ownership. The Saz Farmstead that İltekin Gazi endowed remained as property in the hands of his grandson Alâeddin Ali Bey, and his children also used the property in the capacity of mütevelli. That is, the farmstead worked like a family waqf: the person who held it both benefited from the revenue and administered the waqf. In the later entries on the Aydınoğulları (57, 58, 60), the owners of the Saz property, called "Emîr Hasan Alânî," appear to be of the Aydın line rather than from this family. How the property passed from one family to the other cannot be deduced from Hüsameddin's texts.

No information was found in other sources on a farmstead named Saz or on Alâeddin Ali Bey.

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