İshâk Paşazâde Şâdî Paşa'nın mahdûmudur. Bursa beyi iken 937 senesi muharremi sonlarında Amasya beyi oldu. Fakat Rûmeli muhârebâtına me'mûr olduğundan Amasya alaybeyi Kadızâde Seydî Ahmed Bey vekîl olup Amasya'yı eşkıyâdan korudu.
937 senesinde meşâhîr-i etkıyâdan ve Halvetiyye meşâyihinden Sonusalı Hüsâmeddîn Efendi vefât edib Okmeydânı'nda Hızır Paşa Mahallesi'ne giden yolun sağında kabr-i mahsûsuna defn edildi. İbrâhim Bey'in temâdî eden gaybûbetine ve sancağın ehemmiyetine binâ'en Seydî Ahmed Bey mîrlivâ oldu.
In Modern English
He is the son of Şadi Pasha, son of İshak Pasha. While bey of Bursa, he became bey of Amasya at the end of the month of Muharram of the year 937 [1530-31]. But since he was assigned to the Rumeli wars, Kadızade Seydi Ahmed Bey, alaybeyi of Amasya, acted as deputy and protected Amasya from the brigands.
In the year 937 Hüsameddin Efendi of Sonusa, one of the famous pious men and Halveti sheikhs, died and was buried in his private grave on the right of the road leading to the Hızır Pasha Quarter at Okmeydanı. Because of İbrahim Bey's prolonged absence and the importance of the sanjak, Seydi Ahmed Bey became mirliva.
Notes and Research
Old Words in the Text
- mahdûm: son
- me'mûr olmak: to be assigned
- vekîl: deputy, one who looks after in another's place
- meşâhîr-i etkıyâ: famous pious men
- meşâyih: sheikhs
- kabr-i mahsûs: a grave set aside for oneself
- gaybûbet: absence, not being at one's post
- temâdî: prolongation
- mîrlivâ: sanjak bey
İbrahim Bey's Absence
İbrahim Bey, assigned to the Rumeli wars, remained far from Amasya, and the sanjak stayed in the hands of Seydi Ahmed Bey, first as deputy and then as the actual sanjak bey. Hüsameddin explains this situation by the "prolongation of the absence" and the importance of the sanjak. No information was found in other sources on İbrahim Bey and on Şadi Pasha, who is mentioned as his father.
Hüsameddin Efendi of Sonusa
No direct record was found of Hüsameddin Efendi of Sonusa, named in the text. Sonusa is today's Uluköy in Tokat. The district to which the village belongs appears in the sources as Taşova or Erbaa. Sonusa appears in the intellectual and Sufi life of Amasya under other names as well: Bahşî Halife (Akbilek), who taught at Amasya, was born at Sonusa; the scholar Sinan Efendi (Muhaşşî) was born at Sonusa in 1488, his father's name is Hüsameddin, and it is reported that his father was a caliph of Habib Karamânî, one of the Halveti sheikhs. Sinan Efendi first studied at Amasya, then went to Istanbul, rose as far as the kazaskerlik of Anatolia, and died in 1578. Whether the Hüsameddin of the text is the father of this Sinan Efendi could not be verified from the sources; the identity of name and of village suggests this possibility.
Okmeydanı
Okmeydanı, given as the location of the grave, is today a quarter in the Şişli district of Istanbul. It takes its name from the archery ground and the archers' tekke that Mehmed II had built; in the surrounding streets there are range stones marking the reach of arrows. No information was found in the sources on the road leading to the Hızır Pasha Quarter or on the present state of the sheikh's grave.
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