AMASYA 05

Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL

Emrullah Efendi-Şeyhzade

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 7, p. 349 • Edited by: Prof. Dr. Safi ARPAGUŞ- Prof. Dr. Ahmet Hakkı TURABİ

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Amasyalıdır. Mehmed Paşa Zâviyesi şeyhî Pîr Mehmed Çelebi mahdûmu ve Hayrullah Efendi’nin birâderidir. Muhaddis Zileli Abdurrahman Efendi’den tahsîl-i ulûm edib [282] ders-i âm ve Bâyezîd Paşa Câmii vâizi ve imâreti şeyhi oldu. Tedrîs ve nasîhatla iştigâl ederek 1055’de vefât etdi. Ulemâ ve sulehâ-yı meşâyihden idi.

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In Modern English

He was from Amasya. He was the son of Pîr Mehmed Çelebi, sheikh of the Mehmed Pasha Lodge, and the brother of Hayrullah Efendi. He studied under the hadith scholar Abdurrahman Efendi of Zile and received the licence to give public lectures [ders-i âm]; he became preacher of the Bâyezîd Pasha Mosque and sheikh of its imaret. Occupied with teaching and with giving counsel, he died in 1055 [1645-46]. He was among the learned and the righteous sheikhs.

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • zâviye: a lodge, a small religious building where dervishes gather
  • muhaddis: hadith scholar
  • ders-i âm: the licence to give public lectures
  • vâiz: preacher, a religious official who gives sermons in a mosque
  • imâret şeyhi: sheikh attached to an imaret waqf
  • tedrîs: teaching
  • sulehâ: righteous people

The Mehmed Pasha Lodge

The lodge where his father served as sheikh is one of the parts of the Mehmed Pasha Complex near the Yeşilırmak in Amasya. The complex's founder was Hızır Pashazade Mehmed Pasha (d. 900 [1495]), vizier of Bayezid II and tutor of Prince Ahmed. According to the inscription above the mosque's door, the building was completed in Muharrem 891 [January 1486]. The complex comprised a mosque, madrasa, imaret, tomb, tabhane, lodge, fountain and cemetery; only the mosque, its adjoining wing rooms and the tomb have survived. The madrasa and imaret burned down and are lost.

According to Hüsameddin, the lodge south of the mosque, on the road, was built in 890 [1485] for Habib Karamânî, one of the Halveti sheikhs. Whether Pîr Mehmed Çelebi was sheikh of this lodge, or to which order he belonged, is not stated in the sources read; the "Mehmed Pasha Lodge" of the text may be the same building as this lodge, but this is an inference.

The Bâyezîd Pasha Mosque and Its Imaret

The Bâyezîd Pasha Mosque, where Emrullah Efendi was preacher and imaret sheikh, is the mosque in the Bayezid Pasha quarter of Amasya. An article based on archival records lists the Bayezid Pasha Lodge among Amasya's lodges and reports that the revenue of a village belonged to the waqf of the Bayezid Pasha Imaret. That a madrasa, fountain and imaret stood around the mosque, and that in some sources the mosque is said to have been built in 817 [1414], could not be verified. No information on his brother Hayrullah Efendi, his teacher Abdurrahman Efendi of Zile, or his father Pîr Mehmed Çelebi was found in the sources read.

Bibliography

Primary sources

  • Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 7, p. 349–349. amasya.bel.tr

Academic studies

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