Amasyalıdır. Eşrâfdan mîr-livâ Küçük Alizâde el-Hâc Yeğen Ali Bey bin el-Hâc Ahmed Bey bin Ali Bey’in mahdûmudur. Pederinin irtihâlinde Amasya a’yânından olup İran muharebâtında yararlıklar göstermekle dergâh-ı âlî kapıcıbaşılarından oldu. 1149’da ammesi (hala) Fâtıma Hanım binti Hüseyin Paşa’nın Mehmed Paşa Câmii ittisâlinde binâ etdirdiği medreseyi ikmâl ve vakfiyesini tanzîm etdikde mütevellîsi ve 1153 senesi muharreminde bir daha baş-a’yân ve Amasya mütesellimi olarak İran harbine gidip 1154 muharremi evâhirinde vefât etdi.
Gâyet zî-servet, nâfizü’l-kelîm, mükerrem, ulemâ ve meşâyihine muhib bir zât idi. Mahdûmları el-Hâc Halîl, Ömer, İbrâhim Beylerdir. Evlâdından Ömer Paşa’nın ahfâdı şimdiye kadar bâkidir. İbrâhim Bey, pederinin vefâtından az sonra doğmuşdu. Aşağıda gelir. Hacı [154] Halîl Bey vakfa mütevellî oldu.
In Modern English
He was a native of Amasya. He was the son of el-Hâc Yeğen Ali Bey bin el-Hâc Ahmed Bey bin Ali Bey, a mîr-livâ of the eşraf known as Küçük Alizâde. When his father died he was among the ayan of Amasya, and through the services he showed in the Iranian wars he became one of the kapıcıbaşıs of the Sublime Porte. In 1149 [1736-37], when he completed the madrasa that his paternal aunt Fâtıma Hanım, daughter of Hüseyin Pasha, had built adjoining the Mehmed Pasha Mosque and arranged its waqf deed, he became its mütevelli. In Muharram 1153 [1740], once more as baş-a'yân and mütesellim of Amasya, he went to the Iranian war, and he died at the end of Muharram 1154 [1741].
He was a very wealthy, influential, generous man, respectful toward scholars and sheikhs. His sons were el-Hâc Halîl, Ömer and İbrâhim Bey. The grandchildren of Ömer Pasha, one of his children, are living to this day. İbrâhim Bey had been born shortly after his father's death; he comes below. Hacı Halîl Bey became mütevelli of the waqf.
Notes and Research
Old Words in the Text
- eşrâf: the noble and respected persons of a place
- mîr-livâ: sanjak bey
- a'yân: local notables
- baş-a'yân: head of the ayan
- mütesellim: deputy who governs a place on behalf of a governor or sanjak bey
- kapıcıbaşı: head of the palace gatekeepers
- ammesi: his paternal aunt
- vakfiye: the founding document of a waqf
- mütevellî: person who manages the affairs of a waqf
- nâfizü'l-kelîm: one whose word carries weight
- mükerrem: respected, generous
- ahfâd: grandchildren
The Madrasa Beside the Mehmed Pasha Mosque
The Mehmed Pasha Mosque is in the Mehmed Pasha quarter of Amasya, near the Yeşilırmak. It was built by Hızır Paşazâde Mehmed Pasha, vizier of Bayezid II and lala of Prince Ahmed, and according to its inscription was completed in January 1486. The complex is known to have consisted of a mosque, madrasa, imaret, tomb, tabhane, zaviye, fountain and cemetery; however its madrasa and imaret have burned and vanished, and what has survived to the present is the mosque, its attached wing spaces and the tomb. The madrasa of Fâtıma Hanım that Hüsameddin mentions is a building built beside the mosque in the eighteenth century; whether it is on the same site as the first madrasa that burned and vanished could not be understood from the sources examined, and whether it still stands today could not be determined.
According to Hüsameddin, the person who completed the waqf is İbrâhim Bey, son of Yeğen Ali Bey; that is, the building was begun on the initiative of a woman benefactor and completed by her relative. If one recalls that Bolulu İbrâhim Efendi in entry 155 was also kürsü şeyhi of this mosque, it is seen that the mosque continued in the eighteenth century as a functioning religious center.
The word "ammesi" in the text means paternal aunt; that is, Fâtıma Hanım is the sister of İbrâhim Bey's father. No source other than Hüsameddin was found for the identity of Fâtıma Hanım's father Hüseyin Pasha and for the details of the madrasa's founding.
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