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Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL

Ebu'l-Kâsım Ahmed Çelebi — Kadızâde

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 6, p. 84 • Edited by: Doç. Dr. Recep Orhan ÖZEL - Doç. Dr. Metin HAKVERDİOĞLU

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Amasyalıdır. Amasya kadı’l-kudâtı Mevlânâ Ziyâ’eddîn Mes’ûd bin Esedü’l-Hallâtî mahdûmudur. Kibâr-ı kudâtdan olup 827 hudûdunda vefât etdi. Mahdûmları [249] Kâsım, Ali Çelebilerdir. Bu Alâeddîn Ali Çelebi, İçerişehir’de Kurşunlu Mahallesi’nde mescîd-i şerîfi yaptıran zât-ı sütûde-simâtdır. Bunlar da kudâtdandır.

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In Modern English

He was a native of Amasya. He was the son of Mevlânâ Ziyâeddin Mes'ûd bin Esedü'l-Hallâtî, chief judge of Amasya. He was one of the great judges and died around 827 [1423-24]. His sons were Kâsım and Ali Çelebi. This Alâeddin Ali Çelebi is the praiseworthy man who had the mosque (mescit) in the Kurşunlu neighborhood in İçerişehir built. These were also among the judges.

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • kadı'l-kudât: head of the judges, chief judge
  • kibâr-ı kudât: great judges
  • hudûdunda: around, in the vicinity of
  • mescid-i şerîf: a mescit, a small mosque
  • zât-ı sütûde-simât: a person praised for fine character

The Hallâtîzâdes

The father of Ebu'l-Kâsım Ahmed Çelebi, Ziyâeddin Mes'ûd, appears several times in Hüsameddin's book among the judges of Amasya in the years of transition from the age of the principalities to Ottoman administration. In the third volume, in the account of the time of Çelebi Sultan Mehmed, it is written that in 808 [1405-06] the judge of Amasya, Hacı Bedreddin Mahmud Çelebi, died and was replaced by his deputy, who came from Sivas, "Ziyâeddin Mes'ûd Çelebi of the Halâtîzâdes." The same pages also tell of the return to Amasya of Pir İlyas, who was released that year on the death of Timur; Ziyâeddin Mes'ûd's judgeship coincides with these turbulent post-Timur years. The death of his son around 827 shows that the family held this office for at least two generations.

The family also has an older past. Hüsameddin also mentions, as chief judges of Amasya in the middle of the fourteenth century, "Şemseddin Mehmed bin Musa el-Hallâtî" and "İmâdeddin Ömer bin el-Hallâtî"; Şemseddin Ahmed ez-Ziyârî, who was İmâdeddin Ömer's deputy, himself became chief judge in the time of the emir of Amasya, Hacı Şadgeldi. The nisba "Hallâtî" suggests that the family's origin was Ahlat (formerly Hılat); this is an inference drawn from the nisba. No information was found in other sources on the family.

The Kurşunlu Neighborhood

The Kurşunlu neighborhood, mentioned in the entry on account of Ali Çelebi's mescit, lies, according to Hüsameddin, on one of the oldest settlement layers of Amasya. According to the description of the neighborhood in the first volume, it is in İçerişehir, west of the Upper Bath (Yukarı Hamam); to its east are the Karatay and to its west the Ahi Sadeddin neighborhoods, to its south the Yeşilırmak and to its north the mountain. According to Hüsameddin, this place was formerly called "Yağıbasaniyye": the Danishmend ruler Yağıbasan Gazi had a great han (inn) built here, the han came in time to be called "Kurşunlu Han," and its surroundings "Kurşunlu Neighborhood." It is also recorded that the palace of the Seljuk Sultan Mes'ud in Amasya was in this neighborhood, on the river bank, and that it has long been said that the quay extending west from above the Upper Bath was the foundation of this palace.

In the same neighborhood there was another work not to be confused with Alâeddin Ali Çelebi of the entry: the Ali Çelebi Dârülkurrâ (Qur'an reciters' school) that the mufti of Amasya, Mü'eyyedzâde Ali Çelebi, had built in 884. Hüsameddin says that this dârülkurrâ was on the west side of the mosque in the neighborhood, but that in his own time its site had been lost. No information was found in other sources on the mescit that Kadızâde Alâeddin Ali Çelebi had built in the early fifteenth century; whether it still stands today could not be determined.

The name Kurşunlu, however, lives on. A neighborhood bearing the name Kurşunlu Neighborhood still exists in Amasya today and is referred to by this name in current local news. To what extent the boundaries of today's neighborhood coincide with the old Kurşunlu described by Hüsameddin deserves separate study.

Bibliography

Primary sources

  • Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 6, p. 84–84. amasya.bel.tr
  • Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, vol. 1, Mukaddime (Sultan Mes'ud's palace, neighborhoods and dârülkurrâs), p. 88–93, 123–132 and 161–167; vol. 3, entry "Çelebi Sultân Mehmed Hân", p. 457–464; vol. 6, entry "Ebû Sa'îd Ahmed Çelebi-Mevlânâ Şemseddîn ez-Ziyârî", p. 102.

Other sources

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