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Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL

İbrâhim Ağa — Nûhzâde

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 6, p. 41 • Edited by: Doç. Dr. Recep Orhan ÖZEL - Doç. Dr. Metin HAKVERDİOĞLU

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Merzifonludur. Ora eşrâfından Nûh Ağa bin Mustafa oğludur. Sipâhî, Merzifon kethüdâyeri, 1069’da Merzifon voyvodası, ba’dehû Merzifonî Kara Mustafa Paşa kethüdâsı oldu. 1075’de Surre-i Hümâyûn Emîni olarak Hicâz’a gitdi. Avdetinde 1077 senesi muharreminin beşinde vefât etdi. [103]

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In Modern English

He was from Merzifon. He was the son of Nûh Agha son of Mustafa, one of the notables of that place. He was a sipahi, kethüdayeri of Merzifon, in 1069 [1658-59] voivode of Merzifon, and then kethüda of Merzifonlu Kara Mustafa Pasha. In 1075 [1664-65] he went to the Hejaz as Surre-i Hümâyûn Emini (steward of the imperial surre). On his return he died on the fifth of Muharram 1077 [1666].

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • eşrâf: notables, persons of noble descent and standing
  • sipâhî: mounted soldier holding a timar
  • kethüdâyeri: official who looks after the affairs of the sipahis
  • voyvoda: official who looks after the financial and administrative affairs of a place
  • Surre-i Hümâyûn Emîni: the person in charge of the sultan's gifts sent to Mecca and Medina
  • avdet: return

The Surre and Its Steward

The surre is the money and gifts sent from Istanbul each year before the pilgrimage season for the needs of the people of Mecca and Medina. Its regular dispatch began in the time of Sultan Selim I (Yavuz) and continued until the end of the Ottoman Empire. The surre procession was organized by the chief of the harem eunuchs (Darüssaade ağası); preparations began with the appointment of the surre steward, who was responsible for the security of the surre during the journey and for its distribution in the Holy Cities. İbrâhim Agha's appointment to this post in 1075 [1664-65] came after his sipahi, voivode and kethüda posts in Merzifon.

Merzifonlu Kara Mustafa Pasha

Merzifonlu Kara Mustafa Pasha, whom Hüsameddin writes that he served as kethüda, was born in 1634 in the village of Marınca in Merzifon; his father was the timar-holding sipahi Oruç Bey. He served as grand vizier from 3 November 1676 to 15 December 1683, led the Siege of Vienna in 1683 and was executed in Belgrade in the same year. Kara Mustafa Pasha's father is Oruç Bey; the father whom Hüsameddin calls "Nûh Agha son of Mustafa" is different from him, and the tie between the two men of Merzifon, according to the text, consists only of the kethüda service. In what office Kara Mustafa Pasha held while İbrâhim Agha was kethüda cannot be understood from the text. No information about Nûhzâde İbrâhim Agha was found in another source.

Bibliography

Primary sources

  • Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 6, p. 41–41. amasya.bel.tr

Academic studies

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