Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · BİRİNCİ BÂB · ONUNCU FASIL · İKİNCİ DEVRE
Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 3, p. 519 • Edited by: Prof. Dr. Mehmet ARSLAN
Gayr-i Türkler'dendir. 1005 senesi rebî'ulevvelinde Amasya beyi olup geldi. Köprü'de mukîm sipâhîlerden Arnavut Hüseyin Ağa'yı mütesellim nasb ederek eşkıyâ üzerine gitdi. Fakat birşeye muvaffak olamadı.
Mütesellim Hüseyin Ağa'nın bâridâne harekâtından münfa'il olan müftü Köse Ahmed Efendi isti'fâya mecbûr olup yerine Karamânî Hâce Tâceddîn Efendi Amasya müftüsü ve Sultâniyye müderrisi olup İstanbul'dan gelebildi. Çünkü yollar bayağı mesdûd idi.
He was one of the non-Turks. In the month of Rabi al-Awwal of the year 1005 [1596–97] he came as bey of Amasya. Appointing Arnavut Hüseyin Ağa, one of the sipahis residing in Köprü, as mütesellim (deputy), he went after the bandits. But he obtained no result.
The mufti Köse Ahmed Efendi, offended by the slow, cold attitude of the mütesellim Hüseyin Ağa, was forced to resign. In his place Karamanlı Hoca Tâceddîn Efendi could come from Istanbul as mufti of Amasya and professor of the Sultâniyye. For the roads had been completely closed.
No information was found in other sources about this post of Bâlî Bey; what is narrated rests only on Hüsameddin. According to the next entry, since Hüseyin Pasha was appointed to the sanjak of Amasya in Shawwal of the same year, Bâlî Bey's tenure appears to have lasted about seven months. No separate information was found about Arnavut Hüseyin Ağa, mentioned as deputy.
The notable point on the muftis is the same persons' leaving office and coming back. Köse Ahmed Efendi appears again in the next entry as mufti of Amasya and resigns a second time in 1009. The sentence in the text, "the roads were blocked," shows the effect of the Celali uprisings on daily life: according to the sources, in these years the people left their homes and took refuge in safer places, especially walled cities and towns.