Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL
Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 7, p. 279 • Edited by: Prof. Dr. Safi ARPAGUŞ- Prof. Dr. Ahmet Hakkı TURABİ
Amasya meşâyihinden İstanbul’da 1112’de vefât eden eş-Şeyh Süleyman Halvetîzâde el-Hâc Ahmed Efendi’nin mahdûmu olup ba’de’t-tahsîl İstanbul’a gitdi. Sudûrdan Hâcezâde es-Seyyid Ömer Efendi’nin sâye-i ikbâlinde silk-i kudâta girdi.
Rûmeli kaleminde hayli bilâd-ı mühimmeye kadı olarak ser levha-i kudât olup Mora eyaletinin merkezi olan Tırapoliçe kazâsından ma’zûlen 1191’de vefât etdi. Meşâhir-i kudâtdan âlim, kâmil bir zât idi.
He was the son of Şeyh Süleyman Halvetîzâde Hacı Ahmed Efendi, one of the sheikhs of Amasya, who died in Istanbul in 1112 [1700-01]. After completing his studies he went to Istanbul. Under the patronage of Hâcezâde Seyyid Ömer Efendi, one of the leading figures of the state and the learned class, he entered the ranks of the kadıs (judges).
He was appointed kadı to several fairly important districts in the Rumelian judicial cadre and rose to a leading place among the kadıs. After his dismissal from the district of Tırapoliçe, the capital of the province of the Morea, he died in 1191 [1777-78]. He was a well-known kadı, a learned and mature man.
The names "Şeyhzâde" in the title and "Halvetîzâde" in the text show that Süleyman Efendi came from a family of sheikhs. That his father is called Halvetîzâde suggests a family belonging to a chain of sheikhs of the Halvetî order; the book does not say so openly, so this is an inference. The Halvetî order has an early history in Amasya. The order is said to have been brought to Anatolia by Pîr İlyas of Amasya. In 1412 [815] Pazarlıoğlu Yâkub Paşa, Beylerbeyi of Ankara, founded a Halvetî lodge in the city for the mufti Gümüşlüzâde Abdurrahman Çelebi, and its waqf deed was registered by the kadı of Amasya in February 1413. Which lodge Süleyman Efendi's forebears were connected with cannot be understood from the sources available to us.
The text outlines Süleyman Efendi's path briefly: study in Istanbul, the patronage of a high-ranking member of the learned class, and service as a kadı in various districts of Rumelia. In the Ottoman system, kadılıks were divided into two groups according to rank. The judgeships of great cities such as Bursa, Edirne and Istanbul, and of the principal centres of the Balkans, Anatolia and the Arab lands, were counted as "mevleviyet" and given to experienced scholars. The judgeships of other places were called "kazâ kadılığı". Tırapoliçe belonged to the second group. It was at first attached to the kadılık of Argos, then became an independent kadılık in the 17th century as its population grew, and in the official list of Rumelian kadılıks dated 1667-68 it is counted as sixth in rank.
The city, known today in Greece as Tripoli, lies in the middle of the Morea peninsula. When the administrative centre of the Morea was moved in 1718 from Nauplia on the coast to Tırapoliçe, the town grew rapidly. Grand Vizier Topal Osman Paşa had a large mosque built there in 1720, and around 1740 Ebûbekir Paşa, the governor of the Morea, founded a complex that included a mosque, madrasa, school, bath, bedesten and an inn. The text gives no dates for Süleyman Efendi's service. However, in the years 1770-1779 that followed the Morea revolt organised by Russia, paid Albanian soldiers and bands of brigands are said to have afflicted the city, tower houses were built in the surrounding villages, and the city was ringed with a wall. Whether Süleyman Efendi's service fell in these years is not known. The city fell into the hands of Greek rebels in 1822 and its Muslim population was killed; very little of Ottoman Tripolitsa remains today.
In 1668 Evliya Çelebi describes Tırapoliçe as a city of thousands of stone houses roofed with tiles, set among gardens and orchards. It has two mosques, two madrasas, three schools and two lodges. The Hüseyin Efendi Lodge in the courtyard of the Ahmed Ağa Mosque belongs to the Halvetî order and gives out plenty of food to passers-by. After 1720 the Cerrâhî sheikh Yahyâ Şerefeddin Moravî also had a Halvetî lodge built in the city. It is striking that the town where Süleyman Efendi served, himself the son of a Halvetîzâde family, had Halvetî lodges; no record shows that this played a part in the choice of his post.
According to the text his father died in 1112 [1700-01] and he himself in 1191 [1777-78]. The 79 years between them would require that Süleyman Efendi was a very small child at his father's death and then lived a very long life. This suggests that one of the dates, or the family link, may have been confused in the record. The matter could not be verified with the sources available to us. No separate source was found either on Hâcezâde Seyyid Ömer Efendi, under whose patronage he was raised.
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