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Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL

Ekmeleddîn Mehmed Çelebi-Ahmedîzâde

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 7, p. 339 • Edited by: Prof. Dr. Safi ARPAGUŞ- Prof. Dr. Ahmet Hakkı TURABİ

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Yukarıda tercemesi yazılan Mevlânâ Tâceddîn İbrâhim Ahmedî mahdûmudur. Bursa’da tahsîl-i ulûm edib orada müderris oldu. 804’de pederiyle beraber Amasya‘ya gelip tedrîs-i ulûm ederek kadı, sonra Amasya Vilâyeti muharrir ve defterdârı olup 835 hudûdunda vefât etdi. Ricâl-i ilmîyyeden idi. Mahdûmu Şehabeddîn Ahmed Çelebi’dir.

Our Research Article Editor: Mevlüt Erdem Öztürk

In Modern English

He is the son of Mevlânâ Tâceddin İbrâhim Ahmedî, whose biography is written above. He studied in Bursa and became a professor there. In 804 [1401-02] he came to Amasya with his father and taught; he became a judge, then registrar and treasurer of the Province of Amasya, and died around 835 [1431-32]. He was one of the men of learning. His son is Şehâbeddin Ahmed Çelebi.

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • tahsîl-i ulûm: acquiring learning
  • tedrîs-i ulûm: teaching, giving lessons
  • muharrir: the official who carried out the tahrir survey, who wrote the records of population and property
  • defterdâr: the official in charge of financial affairs
  • hudûd: around, in the vicinity of
  • ricâl-i ilmîyye: men of learning

The Father Ahmedî

The person whose biography is "written above" in the entry is Mevlânâ Tâceddin İbrâhim Ahmedî, whom Hüsameddin treats in volume 6; the sources give his real name as İbrâhim, his epithet as Tâceddin, and his father's name as Hızır, and he is the poet known for the İskendernâme. Hüsameddin writes that he was born in Amasya around 735, returned to Amasya after studying with Ekmeleddin el-Bâbertî in Egypt, went to Süleyman Bey of Germiyan in 783 after the death of the emir of Amasya, Şâdgeldi Pasha, and returned to Amasya in 805 and lived there for about ten years; he places his death at the end of 815, at the age of eighty. The encyclopedia entry, for its part, reports that there are both Germiyanid and Sivas traditions about Ahmedî's origin, that the information on his life is insufficient and inconsistent, and that Mecdî records that he died in Amasya after passing the age of eighty. This record agrees with Hüsameddin's account.

The Chain and the Dates in the Text

In this entry the son's name is Ekmeleddin Mehmed Çelebi and the grandson's name is Şehâbeddin Ahmed Çelebi. In volume 6, however, Hüsameddin mentions, after Ahmedî's son Ekmeleddin Mehmed Çelebi, the latter's son Tâceddin İbrâhim Bey, and gives Şehâbeddin Ahmed Çelebi as this Tâceddin İbrâhim's son, that is, as the son of Ahmedî's grandson. In this entry, Şehâbeddin is directly the son of Ekmeleddin. There is a difference of one generation between the two accounts, and which is correct cannot be determined from the sources read. A further uncertainty appears when the dates are compared: in volume 6 Ahmedî's return to Amasya is 805, while this entry describes Ekmeleddin's coming to Amasya with his father in 804. A one-year difference suggests that the two entries rest on different sources or that the years were rounded; this is an inference. No information was found in other sources on Ekmeleddin Mehmed Çelebi and his son.

Bibliography

Primary sources

  • Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 7, p. 339–339. amasya.bel.tr
  • Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 6, p. 240–244 (entry "Ahmedî İbrâhim Çelebi-Mevlânâ Tâceddîn").

Academic studies

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