AMASYA 05

Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL

Emrullah Ağa-Hacı Efendizade

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

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Amasya a’yânından el-Hâc Osmân Ağa bin el-Hâc Emrullah Ağa’nın oğludur. Dergâh-ı âlî çavûşânı silkine dâhil olup devr-i hidemât ederek 1154’de dergâh-ı âlî müteferrikalarından oldu. 1161’de ser-müteferrika olup 1167’de vefât etdi.

Our Research Article Editor: Mevlüt Erdem Öztürk

In Modern English

He was the son of Hacı Osman Ağa, son of Hacı Emrullah Ağa, a notable of Amasya. Having entered the ranks of the imperial çavuşes and completed his period of service, he became one of the imperial müteferrikas in 1154 [1741-42]. In 1161 [1747-48] he became head müteferrika, and he died in 1167 [1753-54].

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • a'yân: the leading and influential people of a place
  • dergâh-ı âlî: the sultan's palace, the Ottoman court
  • çavûşân: çavuşes
  • silk: rank, class
  • devr-i hidemât: completing a period of service
  • müteferrika, ser-müteferrika: a select attendant in palace service; head müteferrika, that is, the chief of the müteferrikas

Who He Was and His Descent

The text of this entry does not give the person's own name; his identity can be worked out from the name "Emrullah Ağa" in the heading and from the preceding entry. Hacı Osman Ağa is the son of Emrullah Ağa (d. 1099 [1687-88]) of the preceding entry; that entry counts Emrullah and Ali Ağa and Hacı Mehmed Pasha among Hacı Osman Ağa's sons. The person in this entry must be the son Emrullah Ağa. This is an inference; the text does not give the name.

From Çavuş to Head Müteferrika

Müteferrika is the name for select persons of distinguished descent and rank who were given varied duties in the Ottoman palace. The class was divided into salaried (ulûfeli) and timar-holding members; from the late sixteenth century, state officials such as scribes and çavuşes also began to enter the müteferrika posts. The divan çavuşes, for their part, are placed in Mehmed the Conqueror's law code below the timar-holding müteferrikas and on the same level as scribes. The progression in the text can therefore be read as a rise from çavuş to müteferrika and from there to head müteferrika. No detail about the post of head of the müteferrikas was found in the sources read. By which duties he reached these ranks is also not stated; no information on this person's life in Amasya or Istanbul was found in other sources.

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