Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL
Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 6, p. 95 • Edited by: Doç. Dr. Recep Orhan ÖZEL - Doç. Dr. Metin HAKVERDİOĞLU
Büyük Hoca demekle meşhûr Çorumlu es-Seyyid el-Hâc Mehmed Efendizâde Hüseyniyye müderrisi es-Seyyid el-Hâc Ali Efendi’nin mahdûmudur. Pederinin vefâtında Hüseyniyye müderrisi ve a’yândan olup 1190 sâline doğru vefât etdi.
Diğer Küçük Hoca Çorumlu es-Seyyid el-Hâc Ali Efendizâde es-Seyyid el-Hâc Ebûbekir Efendi de ulemâdan olup Pervâne Bey Mahallesi’nde mukîm iken 1191 sâlinden sonra vefât etdi. Bunun mahdûmu es-Seyyid Ali Efendi de ulemâdan idi. Her ikisi de hânedân adamlardı. [286]
He is the son of es-Seyyid el-Hâc Ali Efendi, müderris (madrasa professor) of the Hüseyniyye Madrasa, who was the son of Çorumlu es-Seyyid el-Hâc Mehmed Efendi, known as "Büyük Hoca" (the Great Hoca). When his father died he became müderris of the Hüseyniyye, entered the leading men of the city, and died toward 1190 [1776-77].
The other, es-Seyyid el-Hâc Ebûbekir Efendi, son of Çorumlu es-Seyyid el-Hâc Ali Efendi, who was called "Küçük Hoca" (the Little Hoca), was also among the scholars; while living in the Pervâne Bey quarter he died after 1191 [1777-78]. His son es-Seyyid Ali Efendi was also among the scholars. Both belonged to a well-rooted family.
The Hüseyniyye, which Büyük Hoca's son took over from his father, is the building known today in Amasya as the Büyükağa Madrasa. The madrasa, whose original name was the Büyük Kapıağası Madrasa, was built in 894 [1488-89] by Hüseyin Ağa, the kapıağası of Bayezid II, and was also called the "Medrese-i Hüseyniye" after its founder. The building, rising in the Şamlılar quarter next to the gardens called "Bahçeler İçi", is known for its octagonal courtyard plan, rarely seen among Ottoman madrasas; the other known example of the same plan scheme is the Rüstem Pasha Madrasa in Istanbul. Since the madrasa was counted among the first-class madrasas of 60 akçe in the grading of madrasas, many scholars of Anatolia were known for teaching here. The building, where teaching was carried out until 1940 and which was then abandoned and fell into ruin, was repaired in 1981 by the General Directorate of Foundations and, handed over to the müftülük, began to be used as a hafız course; it still serves this function today.
There is a point to be noted here. In the first volume of his book Hüsameddin lists the müderrises of the Büyükağa (Hüseyniyye) with dates: İbatsalı es-Seyyid Abdullah Efendi in 1168 [1754-55], Halil Efendi in 1179 [1765-66], then es-Seyyid Mustafa Efendi and his son es-Seyyid Mehmed Emin Efendi, and in 1193 [1779] Şeyhzâde Abdullah Vecîh Efendi. In this sequence neither the name of Çorumlu es-Seyyid el-Hâc Ali Efendi nor that of his son Ebûbekir Efendi, who died around 1190 [1776-77], appears. Since it is known that in this period the professorship was often divided into shares and given to several people, it is possible that father and son taught at this madrasa with a share; but the author's two volumes do not confirm each other on this point. The list of Büyükağa müderrises that Aysun and Engin Kanbur published on the basis of Hüsameddin does not include these two names either.
In the lists of müderrises of the Amasya madrasas in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, several scholars are met with under the nisba "Çorumlu". In the first volume Hüsameddin too counts "Çorumlu Müftîzâde Abdullah" and "Çorumlu Hâfız Mehmed" Efendis among the well-known scholars who revived Amasya in the twelfth century of the Hijra. Among the müderrises of the Sultan Bayezid Madrasa, Çorumlu Ahmed Efendi is mentioned; in the Küçükağa and Mehmed Pasha madrasas, Çorumlu Hafız es-Seyyid Mehmed Efendi; and as the first müderris of the Sungurlu Madrasa, Çorumlu el-Hâc Kara İsmail Hâtif Efendi (d. 1784). It is possible that Çorumlu Hafız es-Seyyid Mehmed Efendi, who began teaching at the Mehmed Pasha Madrasa after a müderris who died in 1684, is the same person as Çorumlu es-Seyyid el-Hâc Mehmed Efendi, who is mentioned as Ebûbekir Efendi's grandfather; but no record confirming this was seen. Another branch of the family, extending to the muftiship of Amasya, is described in the entry on Çorumluzâde es-Seyyid el-Hâc Ebûbekir Efendi on the same page of the book.
A point that should draw the reader's attention is that in this entry two people whose names and epithets are very similar are given side by side. Both are named es-Seyyid el-Hâc Ebûbekir, their fathers are both es-Seyyid el-Hâc Ali Efendi, and all are called by the nisba Çorumlu. Hüsameddin distinguishes them by their fathers' epithets: the father of the first is the Ali Efendi known as "Büyük Hoca", and that of the second the one known as "Küçük Hoca". The epithet "Büyük Hocazâde" in the entry's title therefore means "son of Büyük Hoca". Although it is understood that the two Ali Efendis were from different branches of the same family, the text does not explain the kinship between them.
The Pervâne Bey quarter, where Küçük Hoca lived, is one of the old Amasya quarters around the Burmalı Minare Mosque. The Sungurlu Madrasa, built in 1750 by Sungurzâde el-Hâc Mehmed Ağa, was also in this quarter, on the west side of the Burmalı Minare Mosque. The waqf of the Burmalı Minare Mosque, built in 640 [1242] by the Seljuk vizier Ferruh Bey and his brother the treasurer Yusuf Bey, was reorganized in 699 [1299-1300] by İzzeddin Mehmed Pervâne Bey. The mosque is open for worship today in the Dere quarter, on Taşhan Street.
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