Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL
Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 6, p. 56 • Edited by: Doç. Dr. Recep Orhan ÖZEL - Doç. Dr. Metin HAKVERDİOĞLU
Amasyalıdır. Amasya civârında Gedük karyesinde Mustafa’nın oğludur. Gençliğinde enderûn sarayına girip Hasbahçede bostancılar ocağına kaydedildi. Orada okuyup yazma öğrendi.
Amasyalı Hacı Veli Ağa’nın odabaşılığı zamanında kozbekçi halifesi olarak temeyyüz etdi. Ba’dehû haseki olup 1143 hâ’ilesinde tebeddül-i saltanata binâen azledildi. Ba’dehû âzim-i Hicâz olup avdetinde Zanalızâde es-Seyyid el-Hâc Ahmed Paşa’ya intisâb ederek kapıcıbaşılıkla devr-i hidemât ve 1155 hudûdunda vefât etdi.
He was a native of Amasya, the son of Mustafa from the village of Gedük near Amasya. In his youth he entered the Enderun palace and was enrolled in the bostancı corps in the Hasbahçe. There he learned to read and write.
In the time of the odabaşı Hacı Veli Ağa of Amasya he stood out as kozbekçi halifesi. Then he became haseki, and in the events of 1143 [1730], because of the change of sultan, he was removed from his post. Afterward he went to the Hejaz, and on his return attached himself to Zanalızâde es-Seyyid el-Hâc Ahmed Pasha and served as kapıcıbaşı, and he died around 1155 [1742-43].
The Bostancı Corps was an institution in the outer services section of the Ottoman palace that worked in the gardens and on the sultan's caiques, and was used for any work of the palace when needed. The hasekis were an elite class of the bostancıs. Their number in the eighteenth century was around three hundred; about sixty of them were in the sultan's retinue and accompanied him on his journeys. A bostancı who became haseki was given his staff in a ceremony, and he sacrificed an animal with his own hand. Among the bostancı hasekis have been some who rose to high offices of state, even to the grand vizierate.
Looking at İbrâhim Ağa's path from this angle, it is noteworthy that he entered the palace from a village near Amasya and learned to read and write in the Hasbahçe. His removal from office in 1143 because of the change of sultan corresponds to the event of 1730 when Ahmed III was deposed. His later attachment to Zanalızâde Ahmed Pasha is also noteworthy; this statesman is mentioned in entries 164 and 174 of this volume as well. No detail on the kozbekçi halifeship and the odabaşı Hacı Veli Ağa was found in any source other than Hüsameddin.
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