Amasyalıdır. Sultân Eretna Hân’ın vezîri olan emîr-i kebîr Alâeddîn Ali Şâh bin Emîr Nureddîn Kutlu Bey’dir. 760 ricâlinden olup tercemesi aşağıda gelir.
Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL
Emîr Şâh Çelebi (Kutlubeyzâde)
Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 7, p. 353 • Edited by: Prof. Dr. Safi ARPAGUŞ- Prof. Dr. Ahmet Hakkı TURABİ
Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)
Our Research Article
Editor: Mevlüt Erdem Öztürk
In Modern English
He was from Amasya. He was the great emir Alâeddîn Ali Şah, vizier of Sultan Eretna Han, and the son of Emîr Nûreddîn Kutlu Bey. He was among the notables of the year 760 [1358-59], and his biography follows below.
Notes and Research
Old Words in the Text
- emîr-i kebîr: great emir
- vezîr: the ruler's assistant, a senior official who runs the affairs of state
- ricâl: notables, men of state
- terceme: biography
Eretnid Rule and the Names Mentioned
Eretna was the founder of the principality centered on Sivas and Kayseri. Under his son Alâeddin Ali Bey state authority could not be established, and among the Eretnid emirs Hacı Şadgeldi in Amasya, Mutahharten in Erzincan, Tâceddin in Niksar, Hacı İbrâhim in Sivas and Şeyh Necib in Tokat acted independently. Eretna's son, the ruler Mehmed Bey, fought in 1358 against "Hoca Ali Şah", whose great help he had enjoyed, and removed him. This "Ali Şah" coincides in year with the Alâeddîn Ali Şah whom Hüsameddin counts among "the notables of 760", but there is no record that they were the same person; this is our guess.
Another clue: Hacı Şadgeldi's father is called Nûreddîn Kutlu Şah, and Şadgeldi is also known by the epithets "Kutlu Beyzâde" and "Çelebi". This resembles the names "Kutlubeyzâde" and "Emîr Şâh Çelebi" in the entry's title; but since Hüsameddin gives this person as "Alâeddîn Ali Şah", it cannot be said that he is the same as Şadgeldi. As for Alâeddin Ali Bey, who seized the city in Amasya in 1361, he is the son of Halfetzâde Şücâeddin Süleyman and is not mentioned as a son of Kutlu Bey.
No definite information was found in other sources on Alâeddîn Ali Şah's identity, his relation to Eretna, or his link with Kutlu Bey. Which ruler of the Eretnid dynasty the phrase "Sultan Eretna Han" in the text means is also not clear from this entry.
Bibliography
Primary sources
- Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 7, p. 353–353. amasya.bel.tr
Academic studies
- Kemal Göde, "Eretnaoğulları", TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/eretnaogullari
- Mehterhan Furkani, "Siyasî ve İlmî Bir Kişilik: Amasya Emiri Hacı Şadgeldi Paşa ve ed-Dürerü'l-mensûretü fi'l-furûʻ Adlı Eserin Kendisine Nispeti", Uluslararası Amasya Âlimleri Sempozyumu Bildiriler Kitabı I, Amasya Üniversitesi, 2017.