Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · BİRİNCİ BÂB · ONUNCU FASIL · İKİNCİ DEVRE
Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 3, p. 513 • Edited by: Prof. Dr. Mehmet ARSLAN
Arnavut olup devşirmelerdendir. 987 senesinde Amasya sancağı beyi görüldü. İki yıl kadar Amasya'da oturdu. Bunun zamânında tımâr ve ze'âmet âdetâ devşirmelere, dönmelere münhasırdı. Sivas beylerbeyi Mustafa Paşa da Arnavut idi.
988 cumadelûlâsında müftü Ya'kûb Efendi azl olunup yerine Saruhanlı Küçük Mahmûd Efendi Amasya müftüsü ve Sultâniyye müderrisi olarak geldi. Fakat Zülfikâr Bey'le birleşen Bâlî Bey'in asabiyyet-i milliyyesi yüzünden ba'zı hâdiseler olup gitdi. Arslan Bey geldi.
He was an Albanian and one of the devshirme recruits. In the year 987 [1579–80] he was seen as sanjak bey of Amasya. He lived in Amasya for about two years. In his time timar and zeamet were almost reserved for devshirme recruits and converts (dönme). The beylerbeyi of Sivas, Mustafa Pasha, was also an Albanian.
In Jumada al-Awwal of 988 [1580–81], the mufti Ya'kûb Efendi was dismissed and in his place Küçük Mahmûd Efendi of Saruhan came as mufti of Amasya and professor of the Sultâniyye. But because of the ethnic fanaticism of Bâlî Bey, who had joined forces with Zülfikâr Bey, some incidents arose and he left his post. Arslan Bey came.
Hüsameddin emphasizes that in Bâlî Bey's time timar and zeamet were set aside for devshirme recruits and converts and that the beylerbeyi of Sivas also came from the same origin. This is his own interpretation, and the phrase "asabiyyet-i milliyye" draws on the concepts of the early twentieth century, when the book was written. What the incidents leading to Bâlî Bey's departure were is not told in the text.
The TDV entry on Murad III assesses the period in a similar way: in the reform treatises it is claimed that giving the status of kapıkulu and timars to people around the palace spoiled the system and that the decline began in this period; it is also noted that offices were distributed irregularly and that villages were emptied as the timar order deteriorated. Hüsameddin's observation in Amasya is in accord with these complaints. The entry itself, however, regards the picture as a result of the adverse effects brought by two great wars.
No information was found in another source about Bâlî Bey, Zülfikâr Bey, the beylerbeyi of Sivas Mustafa Pasha, Küçük Mahmûd Efendi of Saruhan and Arslan Bey.