AMASYA 05

Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL

Emîn Mehmed Efendi-Sun'îzâde

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 7, p. 357 • Edited by: Prof. Dr. Safi ARPAGUŞ- Prof. Dr. Ahmet Hakkı TURABİ

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Amasya‘da Saraclar şeyhi olan Hazreti Pîr Sun’ullâh Halvetî ahfâdından ve kudâtdan Abdülcelîl Efendi bin Pîr Mehmed Çelebi bin Pîr Sun’ullâh Halvetî mahdûmudur. Bade’t-tahsîl müderris kadı olup 953 senesi hilâlinde vefât etdi. Meşâhir-i kudât ve ulemâdan idi. Mahdûmu Abdülkerîm Efendi’dir.

Our Research Article Editor: Mevlüt Erdem Öztürk

In Modern English

He was the son of Abdülcelîl Efendi, one of the descendants of the revered Pîr Sun'ullâh Halvetî, who was the sheikh of the Saraçlar in Amasya, and one of the judges; Abdülcelîl Efendi was the son of Pîr Mehmed Çelebi, who was the son of Pîr Sun'ullâh Halvetî. After his studies he became a müderris and judge and died in 953 [1546-47]. He was one of the well-known judges and scholars. His son is Abdülkerîm Efendi.

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • Pîr: the founder of a branch of a Sufi order, or a great sheikh
  • Halvetî: belonging to the Halvetiyye order
  • ahfâd: grandsons, descendants
  • kudât: judges
  • bade't-tahsîl: after his studies
  • meşâhir-i kudât ve ulemâ: well-known judges and scholars
  • hilâl: the new moon, the beginning of a month; whether "953 senesi hilâlinde" means the beginning of the year or some time within that year cannot be told from the text

Saraçlar Pîri Sun'ullah Halvetî

The Yâkub Paşa Tekke in the Pîrler quarter of Amasya was built and endowed in 815 [1412] by Pazarlıoğlu Yâkub Pasha, beylerbeyi of Ankara, as a lodge of the Halvetiyye order, for the mufti Şeyh Gümüşlüzâde Abdurrahman Çelebi (d. 903 [1497-98]); it is also called the Çilehâne Tekke among the people. After Gümüşlüzâde the sheikhship of the tekke passed along a chain that the people of Amasya call "silsiletü'z-zeheb", and in this chain the name "Saraçlar Pîri Sun'ullah Halvetî" stands after Pîr Celâleddin Abdurrahman Çelebi and before Pîr Zekeriyyâ Halvetî. The man Hüsameddin calls "Pîr Sun'ullâh Halvetî, sheikh of the Saraçlar" is most probably this sheikh (inference). The order in the chain suggests that he headed the tekke after the end of the 15th century; but the source read gives no exact years.

The Yâkub Paşa Tekke still stands today. It was damaged in the 1939 Erzincan earthquake and repaired in 1967. The building has a mescid, a tevhidhâne, a sheikh's room, a tomb, and twelve cells for retreat and dervish cells. It is counted among the rare tarikat buildings that have reached the present in their original early Ottoman form.

Sun'ullah's Descendants

No information was found in the sources read on Pîr Sun'ullah's son Pîr Mehmed Çelebi, on his grandson Abdülcelîl Efendi, on Emîn Mehmed Efendi, the subject of this entry, or on Abdülkerîm Efendi. The death date of 953 given by Hüsameddin could therefore not be verified.

Bibliography

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