Amasyalıdır. Gümüşlüzâde Mahallesi'nde Hacı Kâsımoğlu Hacı Ömer Ağa'nın oğludur. 1162 cemâziyelâhirinin dokuzuncu günü Amasya mutasarrıfı ve baş a'yân Hacı Ahmed Bey mütesellimi oldu. Şa'bânın üçüncü günü meşâhîr-i ulemâdan Saçlı Dâmâd Hacı Osmân Efendi merhûm oldu. Mahdûmu Hacı Bâkır Mehmed [81] Efendi ulemâ ve şu'arâdandı.
Berât gecesi ulemâ arasında çıkan bir hâdise üzerine Çorumlu müftü isti'fâya mecbûr olup ulemâdan Mehmed Paşa müderrisi Aybatsalı Abdullâh Efendi Amasya müftüsü ve şevvâl ibtidâlarında sadr-ı âlî kethüdâsı Amasyalı Hocazâde Abdulganî Abdî Ağa vezâretle Tırhala vâlîsi oldu.
In Modern English
He was a native of Amasya. He was the son of Hacı Ömer Ağa, son of Hacı Kasım, of the Gümüşlüzade Quarter. On the ninth day of Cemaziyelahir 1162 [1749] he became mutasarrıf of Amasya; the chief notable Hacı Ahmed Bey became his mütesellim. On the third day of Şaban, Saçlı Damad Hacı Osman Efendi, one of the famous ulema, died. His son Hacı Bâkır Mehmed Efendi was also one of the ulema and the poets.
Following an incident among the ulema on the night of Berat, the mufti from Çorum was compelled to resign, and Aybatsalı Abdullah Efendi, one of the ulema and professor at the Mehmed Pasha Madrasa, became mufti of Amasya. At the beginning of Şevval, Hocazade Abdülgani Abdi Ağa of Amasya, kethüda of the grand vizier, became governor of Tırhala with the rank of vizier.
Notes and Research
Old Words in the Text
- meşâhîr-i ulemâ: the famous among the ulema
- merhûm olmak: to pass away
- şu'arâ: poets
- Berât gecesi: the fifteenth night of Şaban, one of the blessed nights
- hâdise: incident
- sadr-ı âlî kethüdâsı: the grand vizier's kethüda, the sadaret kethüdası
- vezâret: the rank of vizier
- vâlî: governor of a province
A Mutasarrıf from Amasya
Among the mutasarrıfs Hüsameddin lists, Hasan Pasha stands out for having come directly from a quarter of Amasya. His father is Hacı Kasımoğlu Hacı Ömer Ağa. The same family name appears four years earlier in "Hacı Kasımoğlu Mehmed Rıza Efendi," who was brought to the judgeship of Amasya; according to Hüsameddin's footnote, this kadı is the son of the brother of Tatarağası Ömer Ağa, who had earlier served as mütesellim of Amasya. It is possible that Hasan Pasha's father Hacı Ömer Ağa and Tatarağası Ömer Ağa are the same person; in that case the pasha and the kadı would be cousins. This, however, is a guess and could not be verified with other sources. That Hasan Pasha again left the mütesellimship to the chief notable Hacı Ahmed Bey shows that he did not come to his sanjak.
The Gümüşlüzade Quarter and the Gümüşlü Mosque
In the quarters section of his work, Hüsameddin describes the Gümüşlüzade Quarter as east of Selağzı, bounded on the east by the Yassı Kaya and Sofular quarters, on the west and south by Selağzı and the stream, and on the north by the Sofuzade quarters. The name of the quarter comes from the emir of Amasya, Gümüşlüzade Tâceddin Mahmud Çelebi. The mosque he had built in 725 [1325] on a high spot of the quarter was also called the "Tâciye Mosque" after its founder. The quarter is called Gümüşlü today.
The Gümüşlü Mosque was of wood when first built. When it was damaged in an earthquake it was repaired by Gümüşlüzade Ahmed Pasha, and after a fire it was rebuilt in masonry in 890 [1485] by Defterdar Ahmed Bey; the Persian inscription over its door belongs to this renovation. After the fire of 1603 the mosque was repaired by the Beylerbeyi Şemseddin Pasha, in 1688 by Gümüşlüzade İbrahim Pasha, and after the fire of 1720 by the mütevelli Hacı Mustafa Ağa. The Fatma Hatun Madrasa, which Hüsameddin mentioned in earlier entries and whose waqf deed was drawn up in 1158 [1745], was on the qibla side of this mosque. The madrasa has not survived; the mosque still stands and is open to worship on the rise with Yavuz Selim Square to its west and the Yeşilırmak to its north.
The Sadaret Kethüdası Abdi Ağa
The office of Hocazade Abdülgani Abdi Ağa, who the entry says was brought to the governorship of Tırhala with the rank of vizier, was "sadr-ı âlî kethüdâlığı," that is, the sadaret kethüdalığı. As Muzaffer Doğan explains, in the early eighteenth century the sadaret kethüdas, together with their bureaus, had become the second power of the state after the grand vizier, and were mainly responsible for internal affairs. The appointment and supervision of provincial administrators and the follow-up of campaign preparations were among the duties of this office; the sadaret kethüdalığı was also the first place of application at the Porte for provincial officials such as mütesellims, notables, voivodes, kadıs and naibs. From 1718 the sadaret kethüdası, who was also a member of the Imperial Council, in time rose in protocol even above the nişancı and the defterdar.
The Şevval 1162 in which Abdi Ağa rose to the vizierate corresponds to September 1749. At this date the grand vizier was Seyyid Abdullah Pasha, whom Hüsameddin calls "famous in Amasya as Çırçırlıoğlu"; Abdullah Pasha remained in this office from August 1747 to January 1750. That is, Abdi Ağa became a vizier while he was this grand vizier's kethüda. Since Hüsameddin regards both as men of Amasya, it is possible that there was a tie of common hometown between the grand vizier and his kethüda; however, no information about Abdi Ağa was found in other sources.
The New Mufti Aybatsalı Abdullah Efendi
What the incident that arose among the ulema on the night of Berat and forced Hacı Ali Efendi of Çorum to resign was is not related in Hüsameddin. Aybatsalı Abdullah Efendi, who was brought in his place, is the person Hüsameddin calls "Aybatsalı Uzun Abdullah Efendi" in the next entry. In Eyüp Öztürk's research on Akdağlı Mustafa Efendi, relying on the information Hüsameddin gives, it is noted that Abdullah Efendi, nicknamed "Uzun Müfti," counted among Akdağlı's students, died in 1182 [1768-69]. The Mehmed Pasha Madrasa, of which he was professor, is the madrasa that Hızır Paşazade Mehmed Pasha, one of the viziers of Bayezid II, had built in 1484 and which has survived to the present. No information was found in other sources about Saçlı Damad Hacı Osman Efendi and his poet son Hacı Bâkır Mehmed Efendi, named in the entry.
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