AMASYA 05

Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL

Emânî Ahmed Çelebi-Dördüncüzâde

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 7, p. 348 • Edited by: Prof. Dr. Safi ARPAGUŞ- Prof. Dr. Ahmet Hakkı TURABİ

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Amasya serdârı Dördüncü Hasan Ağa bin Ahmed mahdûmudur. Müeyyedzâde Pîrî Ahmed Çelebi’den hatt ve kitâbet tahsîl ederek Beylerbeyi Alîczâde Hüseyin Paşa’nın dîvân kâtibi olduğu halde l058’de müşârün-ileyhin maktûlen vefâtından bir mâh kadar sonra vefât etdi. Kâtib, şâir, maârif-âşinâ idi.

Our Research Article Editor: Mevlüt Erdem Öztürk

In Modern English

He was the son of Dördüncü Hasan Ağa, the serdar of Amasya, son of Ahmed. Having learned fine handwriting and secretarial work from Müeyyedzâde Pîrî Ahmed Çelebi, he was divan secretary to the beylerbeyi Alîzâde Hüseyin Pasha, and died in 1058 [1648-49], about a month after the said pasha was killed. He was a scribe and a poet; he valued learning and culture.

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • serdâr: commander, chieftain
  • mahdûm: son
  • hatt ve kitâbet: fine handwriting and secretarial work
  • beylerbeyi: provincial governor
  • dîvân kâtibi: the scribe who ran correspondence in a governor's divan
  • müşârün-ileyh: the said
  • maktûlen vefât: dying by being killed
  • mâh: month
  • maârif-âşinâ: one who knows and values learning

On the People in the Text

The epithet "Dördüncüzâde" in the heading must come from his father being called "Dördüncü Hasan Ağa" in the text; the text does not explain the epithet, and this is an inference. One might think the name "Emânî" in the heading is a pen name, but the text does not say so; this is an inference.

Searches on his teacher Müeyyedzâde Pîrî Ahmed Çelebi and his master, the beylerbeyi Alîzâde Hüseyin Pasha, turned up no information. In the searches the name Müeyyedzâde came up for Müeyyedzâde Abdurrahman Efendi, of the Divriklizâde family, born in Amasya in Safer 860 (January 1456). The encyclopedia writes that he took his epithet from his grandfather Şemseddin Müeyyed Çelebi. A link between Pîrî Ahmed Çelebi and this family is not established in the sources consulted and is not stated in the text; for this reason their relationship could not be verified.

The reason for and place of Hüseyin Pasha's killing, and the post he held in 1058 [1648-49], could not be found in the sources read. No further information could be found on Hasan Ağa being called "serdar of Amasya" or on the family of Emânî Ahmed Çelebi.

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