Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL
Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 7, p. 357 • Edited by: Prof. Dr. Safi ARPAGUŞ- Prof. Dr. Ahmet Hakkı TURABİ
Amasyalıdır. Sarı Kadızâde eş-Şeyh Mustafa Efendi’nin mahdûmu ve hattât-ı meşhûr Hamdullah Efendi’nin birâderidir. Şehzâdeliğinde Sultân Bâyezîd-i Sânî Amasya vâlisi iken defter emîni olarak iştihâr etdi.
911’de binâsına mübâşeret edilen Hâtuniye Câmii binâ emîni olup “Emîn Çelebi” diye meşhûr oldu. Câmi-i şerîfin hitâmından birkaç yıl sonra 918’de vefât etdi. Meşâhir-i ümenâdan idi. Mahdûmu Muhyiddîn Efendi’dir.
He was a native of Amasya. He was the son of Sarı Kadızâde eş-Şeyh Mustafa Efendi and the brother of the famous calligrapher Hamdullah Efendi. In his princely days, while Bayezid II was governor of Amasya, he became known as defter emini.
He was building steward of the Hatuniye Mosque, whose construction was begun in 911 [1505-06], and became famous as "Emîn Çelebi". A few years after the noble mosque was finished he died in 918 [1512-13]. He was one of the well-known stewards. His son is Muhyiddîn Efendi.
The famous calligrapher Şeyh Hamdullah was born in the Eslem Hatun quarter of Amasya and was the son of Mustafa Dede, a Suhrawardiyya sheikh from the Sarıkadızâde family of Amasya and of the saints who had migrated from Bukhara to Amasya. In his princely days he won the friendship of Bayezid II, whom he probably met in his father's gatherings; Bayezid appointed him his calligraphy teacher and received a licence from him. When Bayezid II ascended the throne, he went to Istanbul with his family at his invitation. Hüsameddin's presenting Emîn Çelebi as his brother agrees with this family's being known by the name Sarıkadızâde; but the encyclopedia entry read does not mention Hamdullah's brothers, so Emîn Çelebi's brotherhood could not be verified.
The Hatuniye Mosque is in the Hatuniye quarter of Amasya; it was built by Bülbül Hatun, one of the wives of Bayezid II, together with a boys' school and an imaret. To its east stands the Enderun Mosque, belonging to the Danishmendids, and to its west the Yıldız Bath, belonging to the Seljuks. The mosque is covered by two small domes and by two lower cross vaults on each side, and its last-congregation porch has five domes. In place of the original inscription over its door, a phrase was painted in 1980. When the surviving works of Amasya are listed, the Hatuniye Mosque is cited with the date 1510. Hüsameddin's starting date of 911 [1505-06] in this entry does not conflict with the 1510 of the encyclopedia; one may be the beginning and the other the completion of the building (inference). The previous entry's presenting Emîn Mimâr as the architect of the same mosque cannot be reconciled with this entry; which is right could not be determined from the sources read.
No information was found in the sources read on Emîn Çelebi's post as defter emini, his work at the Hatuniye, his death in 918, or on his son Muhyiddîn Efendi.
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