Amasyalıdır. Amasya Mevlevîhânesi şeyhi Abdurrahman Dede Çelebi bin eş-Şeyh Bayram Çelebi bin eş-Şeyh Cemâleddîn Habîb Çelebi bin eş-Şeyh Nusreddîn el-Zilevî mahdûmudur. 896’da doğdu.
Amasya meşâyihinden tahsîl-i ulûm ve ahz-ı maârîf-i sûfiyye edib 9l8’de İstanbul’a gitdi. Emîr Ahmed Buharî Hazretlerine intisâb edib onun vefâtında dâmât ve halîfesi olan Amasyalı eş-Şeyh Mahmûd Çelebi hizmetinde oldu. 935’de vefât etdi. Âlim, kâmil, hulefâ-yı Nakşibendîyye’den bir âşık idi. Tasavvufdan “Esrâr-ı Hakâyık” adlı bir kitâbı vardır.
In Modern English
He was from Amasya. He was the son of Abdurrahman Dede Çelebi, sheikh of the Amasya Mevlevi lodge. Abdurrahman Dede Çelebi was the son of Sheikh Bayram Çelebi; he was the son of Sheikh Cemâleddîn Habîb Çelebi; and he was the son of Sheikh Nusreddîn el-Zilevî. He was born in 896 [1490-91].
He studied the sciences and acquired Sufi learning from the sheikhs of Amasya, and in 918 [1512-13] he went to Istanbul. He attached himself to His Eminence Emîr Ahmed Buhârî; after Buhârî's death he served under Sheikh Mahmûd Çelebi of Amasya, Buhârî's son-in-law and successor. He died in 935 [1528-29]. He was a learned and accomplished man, a devoted lover among the successors of the Naqshbandi order. He wrote a book on Sufism called "Esrâr-ı Hakâyık."
Notes and Research
Old Words in the Text
- mahdûm: son
- meşâyih: sheikhs
- tahsîl-i ulûm, ahz-ı maârif-i sûfiyye: studying the sciences, acquiring Sufi learning
- intisâb: attaching oneself to a sheikh or an order
- dâmât: son-in-law
- halîfe: a person a sheikh authorises to carry out the work of the order in his place or in his name
- kâmil: accomplished, mature
- hulefâ: successors (khalifas)
The Family and the Amasya Mevlevi Lodge
The text traces Emrullah Efendi's ancestry back four generations and gives each the title "eş-Şeyh." It does not say which generation served as sheikh at which lodge; it states only that his father was sheikh of the Amasya Mevlevi lodge. The nisba "el-Zilevî" of the earliest ancestor, Nusreddîn, points to a connection with Zile, but the sources read give no detail of it.
A study of Amasya's musical tradition notes that the influence of the Darüşşifa and the Mevlevi lodge, inherited from the Ilkhanid period, combined with Ottoman court culture to produce a distinctive musical tradition in the city. The bibliography of another article cites a 1996 study on the Amasya Mevlevi lodge and its waqfs; that study could not be read. No information on Abdurrahman Dede Çelebi and his family was found in the sources read.
Emîr Buhârî and the Naqshbandi Connection
The Emîr Ahmed Buhârî of the text is remembered as the founder of the first Naqshbandi lodge in Istanbul. Born in Bukhara, he attached himself to Ubeydullah Ahrâr in Samarkand and later came to Anatolia. When the number of seekers around the sheikh, who lived west of the Fâtih Mosque, grew, Bayezid II had a small mosque and cells for dervishes built, and the place became a Naqshbandi lodge. Emîr Buhârî died in 922 [1516] at about the age of seventy-three. According to Hüsameddin, Emrullah Efendi went to Istanbul in 918 [1512-13]; if this is right, he may have spent some four years in the sheikh's circle before his death. This is an inference; the text gives no duration.
After Emîr Buhârî, his son-in-law Mahmud Efendi (d. 938 [1531]) continued as sheikh at the lodges in Fatih and Edirnekapı. It is plausible that the "son-in-law and successor, Sheikh Mahmûd Çelebi of Amasya" in the text is this Mahmud Efendi, but the source read does not say he was from Amasya; the match is an inference. If correct, Emrullah Efendi (d. 935 [1528-29]) died three years before Mahmud Efendi.
No record of a work titled "Esrâr-ı Hakâyık" turned up in the searches made.
Bibliography
Primary sources
- Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 7, p. 348–348. amasya.bel.tr
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