AMASYA 05

Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL

Emîn Mehmed Efendi-Hocazâde

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 7, p. 360 • Edited by: Prof. Dr. Safi ARPAGUŞ- Prof. Dr. Ahmet Hakkı TURABİ

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Merzifonludur. Orada ulemâdan Hoca Abdullah Efendi’nin mahdûmu olup Amasya‘da ulemâdan tahsîl-i ulûm ederek silk-i kudâta girdi. Kırk yıl kadar kazâ ve niyâbetlerde gezip hayli servet edindi. Merzifon’da bir câmi-i şerîf binâsıyla nukûd ve emlâkını hayrâtının mesâlihine vakfederek pek müsin olduğu halde 1217’de vefât etdi. Meşâhir-i kudâtdan sâhib-i hayrât idi.

Our Research Article Editor: Mevlüt Erdem Öztürk

In Modern English

He was a native of Merzifon. He was the son of the scholar Hoca Abdullah Efendi of that town, and after studying under the scholars of Amasya he entered the ranks of the judges. For some forty years he went about the districts and deputy-judgeships and acquired considerable wealth. In Merzifon he had a mosque built; he also endowed his cash and property to meet the expenses of his charities. He died in 1217 [1802-03], at a very advanced age. He was one of the well-known judges and a man of charitable works.

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • silk-i kudât: the body of judges, the career of a judge
  • kazâ ve niyâbet: judicial districts and posts of deputy judge
  • câmi-i şerîf: mosque
  • nukûd ve emlâk: cash and property
  • hayrât: charitable works
  • mesâlih: needs, affairs
  • müsin: old. If the spelling is read as "muhsin" (doer of good) the sense becomes "charitable", which is also possible since his charities are being described; but because the flow of the text points to the age at death, "old" is taken here (inference)
  • meşâhir-i kudât: well-known judges

Merzifon

In the Ottoman period Merzifon was a district centre and in the eighteenth century it continued the state of the previous century; no important events are recorded for that century. The town had the look of a typical Turkish-Islamic town, adorned since the Danishmend period with mosques, small mosques, madrasas, lodges and various charitable foundations; among the main waqf buildings the complex built by Kara Mustafa Pasha in the seventeenth century stands out. The mosque that Hocazâde is said to have built is not listed among these buildings.

The temettuat survey of the 1840s lists thirteen quarters in Merzifon: Hacı Hasan, Harmanlar, Hacı Bâlî, Bozacı, Surmasud, Hacı Rahat, Alaca Minare, Câmi-i Cedîd, Sofular, Hacı Ahmed Fakih, Gazi Mahbub, Seyyid Bölük and Câmi-i Atîk. None of them bears the name Hocazâde. This suggests that the mosque was known by another name or did not give its name to a quarter (inference); nothing definite can be said.

Sought and Not Found

Searches for the mosque and waqf built by Hocazâde Emîn Mehmed Efendi, for his father Hoca Abdullah Efendi and for his judicial career turned up no source giving information about him. No information on this person was found in other sources.

Bibliography

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