Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · İKİNCİ FASIL
Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 7, p. 397 • Edited by: Prof. Dr. Safi ARPAGUŞ- Prof. Dr. Ahmet Hakkı TURABİ
Malatyalıdır. Amasya kâdı’l-kudâtı Mevlânâ İmadeddîn Yûsuf bin Halîl’in birâderidir. Amasya’da kazasker Mevlânâ Cemâleddîn Yûsuf bin Hüseyin en-Niğdevî’den tahsîl-i ulûm etdi. Birâderinden de iktisâb-ı fezâ’il edib ders-i âm oldu.
Amasya’da hayli müddet ulûm-i nâfi’a tedrîs edib Halfet Gâzi Medresesi müderrisi olduğu hâlde 818 sâlinden sonra vefât etdi. Kibâr-ı ulemâdan fâzıl, vâ’iz bir zât idi. Mahdûmları Cemâleddîn Yûsuf, Kemaleddîn Mehmed Çelebiler meşâhîr-i kudâttan idiler.
He was a native of Malatya. He was the brother of Mevlânâ İmadeddin Yusuf, son of Halil, chief judge of Amasya. In Amasya he studied the sciences under the kazasker Mevlânâ Cemâleddin Yusuf, son of Hüseyin, of Niğde. He also acquired virtues from his brother and came to give open lectures.
He taught the useful sciences in Amasya for a good while and died, still professor at the Halfet Gazi Madrasa, after the year 818 [1415-16]. He was among the great scholars, a learned man and a preacher. His sons Cemâleddin Yusuf and Kemâleddin Mehmed Çelebi were among the well-known judges.
The "Halfet Gâzi" of the text carries the name that people pronounce Hilfet Gazi and that is properly Halîfet Gazi. The madrasa stands in the Şamice quarter of Amasya, on Torumtay Street. According to its inscription it was built in 606 [1209-10]. Its founder, Halîfet Gazi, was one of the Danishmendid emirs; when the principality came to an end he entered Seljuk service, was appointed governor of Amasya in 1222, later became governor of Erzurum, and in 1232 fell as a martyr in the campaign against the Georgians and was buried in his tomb at Amasya. The madrasa's deed of endowment, dated 622 [1225], has survived.
The building was damaged in the earthquake of 1647; the professor Hasan Efendi had the collapsed parts rebuilt in timber. In 1888 the mufti of Amasya, Hacı Osman Hilmi Efendi, had the whole building thoroughly repaired. Today the south wall and the east section of the madrasa partly stand, and the octagonal tomb beside its east side belongs to the same group of buildings. According to some researchers the building was converted from a church into a madrasa. The years after 818, when Bayram Çelebi taught at the madrasa, fall in the first quarter of the fifteenth century, about two hundred years after its foundation; the source that was read has no record of the condition of the building at that time.
It has been established that Amasya had more than forty madrasas. In the Ottoman period the city was called the "city of princes" and, with its madrasas, was one of the important centres of learning in Anatolia. No information was found in the sources that were read about Bayram Çelebi's family, his brother İmadeddin Yusuf, son of Halil, his teacher Cemâleddin Yusuf of Niğde, or his sons Cemâleddin Yusuf and Kemâleddin Mehmed; Hüsameddin's record could not be verified by a document. No separate record was found either of the madrasa's professorship or of the brother's judgeship at Amasya.
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