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
“Tebyînü’l-Mehârim” müellifi Şeyhü’l-Harem Amasyalı el-Hâc Sinâneddîn Yûsuf Efendi bin Mûsâ bin Süleyman bin Abdullah mahdûmudur. Mekke-i Mükerreme’de mücâvir iken pederinden ahz-ı ulûm edib Amasya’ya avdetde ders-i âm oldu.
Yıllarca tedrîs-i ulûm edib Yörgüç Paşa müderrisi iken 1018’de İstanbul’a gitdi. Şehzâde Sultân Mehmed Câmiinde tedrîs ve ifâde ile meşgul olup 1030’da vefât etdi. Âlim, sâlih, vâiz bir zât idi. Şehzâde Câmii havâlisinde medfûndur.
He was the son of Amasya-born Şeyhü'l-Harem Hacı Sinâneddîn Yûsuf Efendi, author of the "Tebyînü'l-Mehârim"; Yûsuf Efendi was the son of Mûsâ, who was the son of Süleyman, who was the son of Abdullah. While living as a neighbor in Mecca he took learning from his father and, returning to Amasya, gave public lectures.
After teaching for years, while professor at the Yörgüç Paşa Madrasa, he went to Istanbul in 1018 [1609-10]. He was engaged in teaching and transmitting knowledge at the Şehzâde Sultân Mehmed Mosque and died in 1030 [1620-21]. He was a scholar, a pious man and a preacher. He is buried in the vicinity of the Şehzâde Mosque.
The father of Es'ad İbrâhim Efendi in the entry is Yûsuf Sinânüddîn el-Amâsî, whom Hüsameddin calls "the author of the Tebyînü'l-Mehârim." This work and its author were discussed in a paper by İlyas Yıldırım, "Yûsuf Sinânüddîn el-Amâsî ve Tebyînü'l-Mehârim Adlı Eseri Çerçevesinde Dönemin Fıkhî Sorunları" (Yûsuf Sinânüddîn el-Amâsî and the Legal Problems of His Time in the Context of His Work Tebyînü'l-Mehârim), at the international symposium held in Amasya in 2017. From the title of the paper it appears that the book is read as a work on the legal problems of that period. Because the full text of the paper could not be read, no detail can be given on the author's life, his death date or the contents of the work.
For this reason the information that "while living as a neighbor in Mecca, the son took learning from his father" rests only on Hüsameddin. No mention of Es'ad İbrâhim Efendi was found in other sources.
The madrasa where Es'ad İbrâhim Efendi taught appears, by its name, to be connected with the charitable works of Yörgüç Paşa in Amasya. Yörgüç Paşa belonged to the Atabeyzade family; he was a former governor of Amasya and had settled there after serving as lala (tutor) to Prince Murad, whom Çelebi Mehmed had appointed governor of Amasya. He later became a vizier. According to the official promotional text, the Yörgüç Paşa Mosque was built in 1428; in another encyclopedia entry its year is given as 1430. It belongs to the group of inverted-T plan mosques, is built of cut stone, and is known for its colorful façade in which red and white marble are used.
The Atabeyzades are descendants of Nasıreddin Ahmed Bey, atabeg of the Seljuk sultan Gıyaseddin Mesud II and of his son Gazi Çelebi Taceddin Altunbaş; Nasıreddin Ahmed served as governor of Amasya between 1322 and 1327 and had the Atabey Madrasa built. This family also held an important place in the political and social life of Amasya in the Ottoman period; it had two main branches: Yörgüç Paşa and the Yörgüç Paşazades descended from him, and his brother Hızır Paşa and the Hızır Paşazades, who were his children. In the fifteenth century the appointment of Atabeyzades as tutors to princes was almost a tradition. The present state of Yörgüç Paşa's madrasa could not be determined in the sources read.
The building Hüsameddin calls the "Şehzâde Sultân Mehmed Mosque" is most likely the Şehzade Complex in Istanbul. Süleyman the Magnificent had this complex built in the name of his son Mehmed, who died in Manisa in 950 (1543). It is the first imperial complex designed by Mimar Sinan; the mosque opened for worship in 955 (1548), and the twenty-cell madrasa was completed in 953 (1546). The madrasa was used for a long time as a girls' dormitory and, after the latest restoration, was leased out as a restaurant.
The Şehzade Mosque's tradition of teaching is also old: a historian reports that in the second half of the sixteenth century scholars and professors gathered there to give public lectures ("dersiâm eylediklerini"). Es'ad İbrâhim Efendi's teaching there after 1018 can be read within this tradition.
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