AMASYA 05

Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL

Emrî Ahmed Çelebi-Hacı Beyzade

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 7, p. 350 • Edited by: Prof. Dr. Safi ARPAGUŞ- Prof. Dr. Ahmet Hakkı TURABİ

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Amasyalıdır. Züamâdan İbrâhim Bey’in mahdûmudur. Tahsîl-i maârif ederek Hacı Beyzâde Mehmed Paşa’nın kâtib-i dîvânı oldu. Müşârün-ileyhin vefâtında Amasya‘da ikâmet ederek ceddînin evkâfına mütevellî olduğu halde 1029’da vefât etdi. Kâtib, şâir, maârif-âşina idi. [285]

Our Research Article Editor: Mevlüt Erdem Öztürk

In Modern English

He was from Amasya. He was the son of İbrâhim Bey, one of the zeamet holders. After his studies he became secretary of the divan of Hacı Beyzade Mehmed Pasha. After the death of the aforementioned pasha he settled in Amasya and, while trustee of his grandfather's waqfs, died in 1029 [1619-20]. He was a scribe, a poet, and a lover of learning and culture.

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • züamâ: zeamet holders; a zeamet is a military fief of high revenue
  • kâtib-i dîvân: secretary of the divan
  • müşârün-ileyh: the aforementioned person
  • ceddî: his grandfather or forefather
  • evkâf: waqfs
  • mütevellî: the person who runs a waqf
  • maârif-âşina: familiar with learning and culture, fond of learning

The Hacı Beyzade Family

The relationship between the "Hacı Beyzade Mehmed Pasha" of the text and Ahmed Çelebi's grandfather could not be established in the sources read; the surname "Hacı Beyzade" suggests a family, but the identity and offices of Mehmed Pasha were not found. Elsewhere in his book, Hüsameddin mentions the Hacı Beyzades as a well-known family from the Hakala area of Amasya: he writes that Kasım Bey had a madrasa built and endowed in Hakala, that Mirza Bey built a mosque in 935 [1528-29], and that Muhyiddin Bey built a madrasa and a bath in 947 [1540-41]. Another study reports that the Muhyiddin Bey Madrasa, built in Hakala in 1541 by Hacı Beyzade Muhyiddin Mehmed Çelebi, served until the middle of the nineteenth century. This information shows that Hacı Beyzade was the name of a family that founded waqfs in Amasya; whether Ahmed Çelebi was trustee of this family's waqfs is not stated.

Emrî Ahmed Çelebi

No information was found in the sources read on Ahmed Çelebi's poems, on the pen name "Emrî," or on his father İbrâhim Bey, a zeamet holder.

Bibliography

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