Amasya dâhilinde Havza kazâsının Dere köyünden Abdulkâdir bin Ahmed’in oğludur. Amasya’da fâzıl-ı meşhûr Kadızâde Küçük Mehmed Efendi’den ahz-ı ulûm edib yıllarca ders-i âm, sırasıyla medreselere müderris ve 1058’de kırk beş akçe ile ber-vech-i te’bîd Kuba’da kâin Hüsâmiyye Medresesiyle mütekâ’id olduğu hâlde ba’dehû vefât etdi. Meşâhîr-i ulemâdan, vâ’iz, fakîh, zâhid bir zât idi. Mahdûmu Abdulkâdir Efendi “Dereli Hocazâdelikle” meşhûrdur. Buna “Dereköylü Hoca” da denirdi.
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Ebûbekir Efendi — Dereli el-Hâc
Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 6, p. 87–88 • Edited by: Doç. Dr. Recep Orhan ÖZEL - Doç. Dr. Metin HAKVERDİOĞLU
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In Modern English
He was the son of Abdülkâdir bin Ahmed from the village of Dere in the kaza of Havza, dependent on Amasya. He acquired learning at Amasya from the renowned scholar Kadızâde Küçük Mehmed Efendi; for years he taught as a ders-i âm, served in turn as müderris at madrasas, and in 1058 [1648] retired for life from the Hüsâmiyye Madrasa at Kuba with a stipend of forty-five akçe a day; some time later he died. He was one of the famous scholars: a preacher, a jurist and a man who did not attach his heart to the world. His son Abdülkâdir Efendi is known by the nickname "Dereli Hocazâde." He was also called "Dereköylü Hoca."
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Old Words in the Text
- fâzıl-ı meşhûr: a famous, virtuous scholar
- ahz-ı ulûm etmek: to take learning from someone, to study
- ders-i âm: a müderris who gave lectures open to all in a mosque and could grant licenses
- ber-vech-i te'bîd: in perpetuity, for life
- mütekâ'id: retired; medrese ile mütekâ'id olmak: to receive the müderris's income from a madrasa as a retirement pension
- kâ'in: located, situated
- vâ'iz: one who preaches; fakîh: a scholar of jurisprudence; zâhid: a devout person who has withdrawn from worldly pleasures
Dere Village
Dere village, where Ebûbekir Efendi was born, is today Dereköy in the Havza district of Samsun. This settlement, founded where two streams meet, lies about nineteen kilometres from Havza and today has the administrative status of a neighbourhood. Other famous people also come from the same village in Hüsameddin's book; one of them is Dereli Pehlivan Ahmed Ağa, who served as voyvoda of Havza and was executed at Havza in 1069 [1659] on the ground that he had been involved in the rebellion of Abaza Hasan Pasha.
His Teacher, Küçük Hoca Mehmed İlmî Efendi
Ebûbekir Efendi's teacher is one of the Amasya scholars named most often in Hüsameddin's book. This man, the son of the kadı of Amasya Mustafa Efendi, is known by the nickname "Küçük Hoca" or "Küçük Hâce," and Hüsameddin calls him "üstâdü'l-küll," that is, the teacher of everyone. His death is recorded in the section where Hüsameddin narrates the events of Amasya year by year, under Ramazan 1044 [1635]. He is also written to have been the author of a work called Kitâbü'l-Huyûl. The book names many scholars, poets, judges and calligraphers as having been trained in his circle of study; Merzifonlu Hayâtî Ebûbekir Efendi, on the same page as this entry, is one of them. In this entry Hüsameddin calls the teacher "Küçük Mehmed Efendi," in Hayâtî's entry "Küçük Mehmed Ali Efendi," and in other entries "Mehmed İlmî Efendi"; all point to the same person.
The Hüsâmiyye Madrasa
The Hüsâmiyye Madrasa, from which Ebûbekir Efendi retired, was built in the Kuba quarter of Amasya in 857 [1453] by Kubalızâde Şeyh Hüsâmeddîn Hüseyin el-Halvetî. This man, a Halvetî sheikh, came from a family of sayyids that arrived from the town of Kuba in Fergana and gave the quarter its name. The madrasa was founded together with its tekke and was run by Halvetî müderrises. According to Hüsameddin, its professorship was for a time very prestigious, at the level of sixty akçe.
The building was damaged in the fire of 1011 [1602], renovated as a tekke by the deputy of the nakîbüleşraf, es-Seyyid Ahmed Efendi, of the founder's lineage, and burned again in the fire of 1099 [1688]. Around 1125 [1713-14] Kubalı Hâfız Ali Efendi revived it as a lecture hall, but after 1241 [1826] it fell into ruin and turned into a garden. That Ebûbekir Efendi drew a retirement stipend from this madrasa in 1058 [1648] shows that in the period between the two fires the madrasa continued to exist with its waqf and its professorial post. At Kuba today there is a small mosque and, inside it, the sarcophagus of Hüsâmeddîn Hüseyin el-Halvetî; the people visit it, regarding it as a place of healing.
No information about Ebûbekir Efendi or his son Abdülkâdir Efendi was found in other sources.
Bibliography
Primary sources
- Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 6, pp. 87–88. amasya.bel.tr
- Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, vol. 1 (Introduction: Kuba Mahallesi); vol. 4, "Hüseyin Bey" entry; vol. 6, "Ahmed Ağa-Dereli Pehlivân" and "Ahmed Efendi-Hocazâde"; vol. 8, "Hasan Efendi-Gülşeniyye Şeyhi"; vol. 10, "Remzî Abdullah Efendi-Hâcezâde" entries.
Academic studies
- Kadir Özköse, "Amasya'da Bulunan Halvetiyye Tekkeleri", Akademiar Dergisi, no. 5, 2018, pp. 91-118.
Other sources
- Metin Hakverdioğlu, "Amasya'da Kubalılar, Kuba Medresesi ve Azerbaycan Göçmenlerinin Amasya'da Edebiyata Etkileri" (molekuleredebiyat.com/?p=723).
- "Dereköy, Havza", online encyclopedia entry (tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dereköy,_Havza).