Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL
Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 7, p. 290 • Edited by: Prof. Dr. Safi ARPAGUŞ- Prof. Dr. Ahmet Hakkı TURABİ
Amasya ulemâsından ve kibâr-ı meşâyihden eş-Şeyh Ya’kub Efendizâde Küçük el-Hâc Sinan Efendi’nin mahdûmudur. Buna (Şeyh Ya’kubzâde) dahi denirdi. Şeyh Mehmed Çelebi [85] zâde Veliyüddîn Efendi’den ahz-ı ulûm edib ders-i âm ve Sultân Bâyezîd câmi-i şerîfi vâizi oldu.
1027 senesi evâhirinde İstanbul’a gidip Ayasofya câmi-i şerîfinde ders-i âm ve Sultân Bâyezîd Câmii vâizi olduğu halde 1049 senesi zilka’desinde vefât eyledi. Ulemâ ve sulehâdan bir zât idi. Mahdûmu Ömer Avni Efendi’dir.
He was the son of Küçük Hacı Sinan Efendi, who was the son of Şeyh Ya'kub Efendi, one of the scholars and great sheikhs of Amasya. He was also called "Şeyh Ya'kubzâde." He took learning from Veliyyüddîn Efendi, son of Şeyh Mehmed Çelebi, gave public lectures, and became preacher of the Sultân Bâyezîd Mosque.
Toward the end of 1027 [1618-19] he went to Istanbul and gave public lectures at the Hagia Sophia Mosque, and while preacher of the Sultân Bâyezîd Mosque he died in Dhu al-Qa'da 1049 [1639-40]. He was one of the scholars and righteous people. His son is Ömer Avnî Efendi.
The Küçük Sinânzâde of this entry is a different person from the Sinânzâde of the previous entry. The previous entry described İbrâhim Efendi, son of Şeyhü'l-Harem Yûsuf Sinâneddîn Efendi, who lived in Mecca; this one is the son of "Küçük el-Hâc Sinan Efendi," and his grandfather was Şeyh Ya'kub Efendi. The text says he was also known as "Şeyh Ya'kubzâde," so in terms of family name two different Sinans are involved. The epithet "Küçük" (Small) may have been used to distinguish the two. No other source supporting this distinction was found.
In the Ottoman state the sermon given after the Friday prayer in great mosques and sultanic mosques was called "cuma vaizliği" (Friday preaching), "kürsü şeyhliği" (pulpit sheikhship) or "selâtin şeyhliği" (sheikhship of the imperial mosques). In the early period those who held this duty were mostly chosen from among tekke sheikhs. In the seventeenth century there was a chain of seven imperial mosques: at the lowest rung was the Eyüp Sultan Mosque, followed by the mosques of Sultan Selim, Fâtih, Sultan Beyazıt, Süleymaniye and Sultan Ahmed, and at the highest rung was the pulpit sheikhship at the Great Mosque of Hagia Sophia (Ayasofya-i Kebîr). A preacher began at Eyüp and rose in turn as places fell vacant.
The expression "preacher of the Sultân Bâyezîd Mosque" occurs in two places in the text. Its first occurrence may mean the mosque in Amasya and the second the Beyazıt Mosque in Istanbul; the text does not say. In the Istanbul ranking the Beyazıt Mosque is one of the middle rungs of the chain leading to Hagia Sophia; that Hüsameddin mentions the same person both giving public lectures at Hagia Sophia and as preacher at Beyazıt can be understood within this framework. But the order and duration of these posts could not be verified separately.
The Sultan Bayezid II Complex in Amasya was built on the bank of the Yeşilırmak, with the mosque in the middle, the madrasa on its right, and the soup kitchen-imaret and tabhâne on its left. According to its three-part construction inscription the mosque was completed in Rajab 891 (July 1486); Hüsameddin, however, claims that construction began in Rajab 886 (1481), immediately after Bayezid's accession. Its endowment deed was written in 901 (January 1496) and presents the complex as consisting of a mosque, imaret, madrasa and primary school.
The complex has suffered damage from earthquakes and floods: in the earthquake of 999 (1590) its dome and arches collapsed, and in the earthquake of 1079 (1668-69) the minarets were bent and the domes fell in. Its custodian, İbrâhim Ağa of Merzifon, repaired all the damage within a year. In 1197 (1782-83) a benefactor had a water-heating place built, and in 1256 (1840) Kapancızâde Hacı Hüseyin Zeki Efendi added a timekeeper's room-library and a fountain. It was damaged again in the 1939 earthquake and repaired in the 1960s. The madrasa and imaret were converted into a dormitory, and the primary school has disappeared.
"Ders-i âm" means a lesson open to the public; its frequent use as the title of the professor who gave them belongs to the seventeenth century. As a later example, according to a list of 1869, ten dersiâm professors served at the Hagia Sophia Madrasa.
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