AMASYA 05

Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL

İbrâhim Ağa — Dânişzâde el-Hâc

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 6, p. 58 • Edited by: Doç. Dr. Recep Orhan ÖZEL - Doç. Dr. Metin HAKVERDİOĞLU

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Amasyalıdır. Amasya eşrâfından Hâfız el-Hâc Mustafa Efendi ibn-i Dâniş Mehmed Efendi bin Kutbeddîn Mustafa Efendi mahdûmudur. 915’de şu’arâdan Şermî Osmân Çelebi bin Mehmed Çelebi ahfâdından olduğu münâsebetle mevâliden Dâniş Mehmed Efendi’ye Şermîzâde denirdi. Sâhib-i terceme Amasya a’yânından olup 1170 sâline doğru vefât etdi. Diğer a’yândan Sâncı oğlu el-Hâc İbrâhim Ağa bin el-Hâc Hasan Ağa da 1171 sâlinden sonra vefât etdi. Dânişzâde el-Hâc İbrâhim Ağa’nın oğlu el-Hâc Molla Celîl Ağa pek ma’rûf idi. Bunun evlâdına “Molla Halîloğulları” dendi.

Our Research Article Editor: Mevlüt Erdem Öztürk

In Modern English

He was from Amasya. He was the son of Hâfız el-Hâc Mustafa Efendi, one of the notables of Amasya, who was the son of Dâniş Mehmed Efendi, who was the son of Kutbeddîn Mustafa Efendi. Because he was a descendant of the poet Şermî Osman Çelebi son of Mehmed Çelebi, [of the year] 915 [1509-10], Dâniş Mehmed Efendi of the learned class was called "Şermîzâde". The subject of this biography was one of the Amasya ayan and passed away around 1170 [1756-57]. Sâncıoğlu el-Hâc İbrahim Ağa, also of the ayan, was the son of el-Hâc Hasan Ağa; he died after 1171 [1757-58]. The son of Dânişzâde el-Hâc İbrahim Ağa, el-Hâc Molla Celîl Ağa, was very well known. His children were called "Molla Halîloğulları".

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • eşrâf: leading, noble families
  • mevâlî: members of the Ottoman learned class, such as müderrises and judges
  • şu'arâ: poets
  • ahfâd: grandchildren, descendants
  • sâhib-i terceme: the person whose biography is being told
  • -zâde: son of, descended from; the suffix that makes a family nickname

The Şermîzades and the Dânişzades

The entry is less about the life of one person than about the branches of a family. The family tree reads as follows: Kutbeddîn Mustafa, Dâniş Mehmed, Hâfız Mustafa, İbrahim Ağa and his son Molla Celîl. The nickname "Şermîzâde" given to Dâniş Mehmed Efendi arose from the family's connection with a poet.

This poet is Şermî Osman Çelebi. According to the poets' section of the book, he was from Amasya, the son of Mehmed Çelebi, and is counted among the poets of Prince Sultan Ahmed, governor of Amasya. His son Belîğî Mehmed Çelebi studied in Amasya and, while a clerk at the mint, was admired for the qasida he presented when Prince Sultan Mustafa came to Amasya as governor, and was taken on as a divan clerk. In other words, the nickname "Şermîzâde" goes back to a family that made a name in poetry and clerkship in the palace circle during the period of Amasya's princely governors. What the date "915" in the entry refers to (a birth, a death or an event) cannot be understood from the text.

Another branch descended from the same ancestor is Dânişzâde el-Hâc İbrahim Efendi in entry 191. He is the son of Halil Efendi; Halil is the son of Hâfız Osman, son of Dâniş Mehmed. The İbrahim Ağa of this entry, by contrast, is the son of Hâfız Mustafa, son of Dâniş Mehmed. So the two Dânişzâde İbrahims are persons linked to the same ancestor but from different generations.

No information on Molla Celîl Ağa and the "Molla Halîloğulları" family was found in other sources.

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