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Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL

Emîn Mehmed Efendi, Mufti

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 7, p. 362 • Edited by: Prof. Dr. Safi ARPAGUŞ- Prof. Dr. Ahmet Hakkı TURABİ

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Köprülüdür. İbrâhim’in mahdûmu olup Amasya‘da Şeyhzâde Abdullah Vecîh Efendi’den ikmâl-i tahsîl ederek Sinop’a gitdi. Orada tavattun ederek tedrîs-i ulûma mübâşeret etdi. Ders-i âm-ı benâm olup Sinop Müftüsü olduğu halde [324] 1235’de vefât etdi. Meşâhir-i ulemâdan fakîh, sâlih idi. “Ferâiz-i Sirâciyye”yi terceme ve şerh etmişdir.

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In Modern English

He was from Köprü. He was the son of İbrâhim. After completing his studies in Amasya under Şeyhzâde Abdullah Vecîh Efendi, he went to Sinop. He settled there and began to teach the sciences. He became a well-known professor giving public lectures (ders-i âm), and while serving as mufti of Sinop he died in 1235 [1819-20]. He was among the renowned scholars, a man versed in jurisprudence and devout. He translated and annotated the "Ferâiz-i Sirâciyye" (the book on inheritance law known as the Sirâciyye).

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • mahdûm: son
  • ikmâl-i tahsîl: completing one's studies
  • tavattun: settling in a place, making it one's home
  • tedrîs-i ulûm: teaching the sciences
  • mübâşeret: beginning a task
  • ders-i âm: a title for professors who gave lectures open to all
  • benâm: well known, famous
  • meşâhir-i ulemâ: renowned scholars
  • fakîh: a scholar of fıkıh (Islamic law)
  • ferâiz: the law of inheritance, the science of dividing an estate
  • terceme ve şerh: translating and writing a commentary

The Ferâiz-i Sirâciyye

The book that the mufti translated and annotated is the work on inheritance law by the Hanafi jurist Sirâcüddîn Muhammed b. Muhammed es-Secâvendî (died after 596/1200). It follows the Hanafi school but, on the few disputed questions left open by the explicit rulings of the Qur'an, also records the views of the other schools, which is why it was widely accepted. Hundreds of manuscript copies exist in Turkish libraries, and the work was printed many times, in Balıkesir and Istanbul in 1272 [1855] and later elsewhere. Many commentaries and glosses were written on it, and the commentary of Seyyid Şerîf el-Cürcânî was read as a textbook in the madrasas.

The Turkish translations of the work include those of Dursunzâde Abdullah Feyzî, Hâcibzâde Muhammed b. Mustafa (died 1100/1689), Hasan b. Nasûh el-Bosnevî, Filibeli Ahmed Hulûsi Efendi (died 1309/1891) and Ebû Bekir Sıdkı Hâfız. The translation and commentary of Emîn Mehmed Efendi of Köprü is not on this list; whether a manuscript of it survives in a library could not be established from the sources read. Hüsameddin does not say into which language the translation was made. Given the Arabic original, Turkish is likely, but this is an inference.

About the Man and the Place

Hüsameddin says "he is from Köprü." Since another entry in the same volume speaks of a notable (ayân) of Köprü, this Köprü should be the Köprü district attached to the sanjak of Amasya (present-day Vezirköprü); this too is an inference. No information was found in other sources on the mufti's teacher Şeyhzâde Abdullah Vecîh Efendi, on his post in Sinop, or on the year of his death (1235). The date rests on Hüsameddin alone and could not be verified.

Bibliography

Primary sources

  • Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 7, p. 362–362. amasya.bel.tr

Academic studies

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