Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL
Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 7, p. 279 • Edited by: Prof. Dr. Safi ARPAGUŞ- Prof. Dr. Ahmet Hakkı TURABİ
Amasya ümerâsından Has Bey bin Esengeldi Bey bin Bâytemur Bey’in kızı ve ammizâdesi İmadeddîn Süleyman Bey bin İvaz Bey bin Esengeldi Bey’in zevcesidir. Emlâkını zevcinin şeyhi olan eş-Şeyh Şehabeddîn Şâdi el-Halvetî tekkesine vakfedip 810 hudûdunda vefât etdi.
Sâliha, sâhibe-i hayrât bir kadın idi. Birâderi Şâdmân Bey ümerâdan idi. Hemşîreleri Nevcihân, Metâ’ hâtunlar da erbâb-ı hayr olup sâhibe-i tercemenin mahdûmu Mûsâ Bey de ümerâdandır.
She was the daughter of Has Bey, one of the emirs of Amasya. Has Bey was the son of Esengeldi Bey, who was the son of Bâytemur Bey. Erdek Hatun was the wife of her cousin İmâdeddin Süleyman Bey, who was the son of İvaz Bey, the son of Esengeldi Bey. She endowed her property to the lodge of Şeyh Şehâbeddin Şâdî el-Halvetî, her husband's sheikh, and died around 810 [1407-08].
She was a pious woman and a founder of charitable works. Her brother Şâdmân Bey was one of the emirs. Her sisters Nevcihân and Metâ' Hatun were also benefactors. Her own son Mûsâ Bey is likewise one of the emirs.
The entry rests on a family tree made up of the Amasya emirs Bâytemur, Esengeldi, Has, İvaz and Süleyman. Erdek Hatun and her husband are cousins, so the marriage was made within the family. Since the death date is 810 [1407-08], the lady lived close to the years when Amasya passed from the hands of the Eretnid emirs to Ottoman rule. The city was annexed to Ottoman lands in 1398, after the rule of the Eretnid emir Hacı Şadgeldi, and Çelebi Mehmed withdrew to Amasya after the Battle of Ankara in 1402. About the political position of local emir families in these troubled years, no record of the beys Bâytemur and Esengeldi was found in the sources available to us apart from the information Hüsameddin gives.
No separate source was found on Şeyh Şehâbeddin Şâdî el-Halvetî, to whose lodge Erdek Hatun endowed her property; his name does not appear anywhere else in our searches. The Halvetî order goes back to Ömer el-Halvetî. Its chain of transmission reaches Seyyid Yahyâ-yı Şirvânî through Ahî Mîrem (d. 1409), Hacı İzzeddin (d. 1425) and Sadreddîn-i Hiyâvî (d. 1455). The report that the Halvetiyye was brought to Anatolia by Pîr İlyas of Amasya, one of the successors of Sadreddîn-i Hiyâvî, shows that the history of the order in this city has a particular significance. One of the Halvetî lodges in the city was founded in the Pîrler quarter of Amasya in 1412 by Pazarlıoğlu Yâkub Paşa, Beylerbeyi of Ankara, for the mufti Gümüşlüzâde Abdurrahman Çelebi; its waqf deed was registered in February 1413. If the date 810 given by Hüsameddin is right, this endowment to the Şâdî lodge falls a few years before the Yâkub Paşa Lodge. Since it could not be verified in another source, this comparison is only a possibility.
A waqf is the permanent dedication of a property by its owner to a religious, social or charitable purpose. Lodges, hospices and zâviyes are counted among the principal kinds of waqf works, together with mosques, madrasas, soup kitchens, hospitals and caravanserais. Most of these establishments were founded as waqfs, and each was headed by a sheikh who looked after the education of the disciples. Around 1540 the province of Anatolia is recorded as having 626 zâviyes and hospices. This shows that endowing property to a lodge, as Erdek Hatun did, was one of the usual charitable paths of the period. Which properties the waqf covered and how long it lasted is not given in the text.
Besides Erdek Hatun, the text also names her sisters Nevcihân and Metâ' Hatun as benefactors. No detail is given about the waqfs of these ladies. Another example of women's charitable works in Amasya is the Dârüşşifâ (hospital), built in 1308-1309 by Anber b. Abdullah, slave of İldüş Hatun, wife of the Ilkhanid ruler Olcaytu, together with the Anatolian Emir Ahmed Bey.
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