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Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL

Ebû Müslim Çelebi — Rükneddînzâde

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 6, p. 105 • Edited by: Doç. Dr. Recep Orhan ÖZEL - Doç. Dr. Metin HAKVERDİOĞLU

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Amasya emîr ve hükümdârı el-Hâc Şâdgeldi Paşa’nın zaman-ı hükûmetinde Amasya’ya gelip tevattun eden Mevlânâ Rükneddîn Nu’mân bin Hasan Râzî mahdûmdur. Ulemâdan ahz-ı ulûm ederek ders-i âm ve Torumtay Medresesi müderrisi olup 822’de tanzîm edilen Bâyezîd Paşa vakfiyesine şâhid görüldü. [322] Ba’dehû vefât etdi. Kibâr-ı ulemâdan idi.

Our Research Article Editor: Mevlüt Erdem Öztürk

In Modern English

He was the son of Mevlânâ Rükneddîn Nu'mân bin Hasan Râzî, who came to Amasya and settled there during the rule of the emir and ruler of Amasya, el-Hâc Şâdgeldi Pasha. Acquiring learning from scholars, he became a ders-i âm and müderris of the Torumtay Madrasa; his name was seen as a witness in the waqf deed of Bâyezîd Pasha drawn up in 822 [1419–20]. Then he died. He was one of the great scholars.

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • tevattun etmek: to make a home, to settle
  • ahz-ı ulûm: acquiring learning
  • ders-i âm: a high-ranking müderris who gave lectures open to all
  • vakfiye: the document showing the founding terms of a waqf
  • kibâr-ı ulemâ: great scholars

His Father's Coming to Amasya

Rükneddîn Nu'mân Râzî's coming to Amasya is placed within the emirate of Hacı Şâdgeldi. Şâdgeldi, son of Hacı Kutlu Şah, became emir of Amasya in 1359 and ruled the city until his death in 1381. Accordingly the family's settling in Amasya falls between 1359 and 1381. The nisba "Râzî" borne by the father points to the family's coming from the east, from the Iranian side; in the same volume Hüsameddin tells that seyyids from Khorasan and Samarkand also took refuge in the city in these years.

The Torumtay Madrasa

The Torumtay Madrasa, where Ebû Müslim Çelebi served as müderris, must be the same building as the complex known today as the Gök Medrese; in some records this complex is also called the "Torumtay Mosque." The Gök Medrese was built in the Seljuk period by Seyfeddin Torumtay, governor of Amasya, as a complex made up of a mosque, a madrasa and a tomb; its construction date is given as 1267. It takes its name from the blue, turquoise glazed bricks covering the dome of its tomb. The Torumtay Tomb, in which Seyfeddin Torumtay himself is buried with his children and grandchildren, stands directly opposite the Gök Medrese and was built in 1278. This two-story, vaulted building, whose plan and decoration differ markedly from other Seljuk tombs, also stands today. That Ebû Müslim Çelebi taught here at the beginning of the fifteenth century shows that a madrasa founded in the Seljuk period was still active in the first years of Ottoman rule.

The Bâyezîd Pasha Waqf Deed and the Date 822

The waqf deed in which the text says Ebû Müslim Çelebi was seen as a witness is the waqf deed of Bayezid Pasha of Amasya, vizier of Çelebi Mehmed. According to the Arabic inscription above its door, the Bayezid Pasha Mosque was built in Muharrem 817 [April 1414]. The pasha's Arabic waqf deed, dated 11 Zilhicce 820 [19 January 1418], with its beginning missing, is in the Ottoman Archive; there are also appendices to this deed dated 821 [1418] and 823 [1420]. A summary of the deed is worked into the band inscriptions on the arches of the last congregation area, and another eight-line summary is carved on a rock near Kuşköprü. In a second inscription in the mosque's last congregation area, the architect is given as Ya'kûb b. Abdullah, one of Bayezid Pasha's freedmen, with the date 822 [1419]; E. Hakkı Ayverdi thinks this is a repair inscription.

The date 822 that Hüsameddin gives for the deed does not directly coincide either with the date 820 of the known main deed or with the dates 821 and 823 of its appendices. The document Hüsameddin saw may be one of these appendices or another copy unknown today; it is also within the realm of possibility that the date was confused with the inscription dated 822 on the building. Which is correct can be understood only by examining the witnesses section of the deed. No information was found in other sources on Ebû Müslim Çelebi and his father Rükneddîn Nu'mân Râzî themselves.

Bibliography

Primary sources

  • Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 6, p. 105–105. amasya.bel.tr

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