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Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL

İbrâhim Çelebi — Cemâloğlu el-Hâc

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 6, p. 29–30 • Edited by: Doç. Dr. Recep Orhan ÖZEL - Doç. Dr. Metin HAKVERDİOĞLU

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

[63] Amasyalıdır. Sivas’da medfûn Cemâleddîn İbrâhim Aksarayî evlâdından Mehmed Çelebi bin Alâeddîn Ali Çelebi bin Mevlânâ Fahreddîn İlyâs bin Mevlânâ Cemâleddîn İbrâhim Aksarayî oğludur. Kibâr-ı ulemâ ve a’yândan olup Şehzâde Sultân Alâeddîn Bey Amasya vâlisi oldukta mukarreblerinden oldu. 847 hudûdunda vefât etdi. Birâderi eş-Şeyh Ahmed Çelebi Bursa meşâyih-i kibârından idi.

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In Modern English

He was a native of Amasya. He descends from Cemâleddîn İbrâhim Aksarayî, who is buried in Sivas: he was the son of Mehmed Çelebi; Mehmed Çelebi was the son of Alâeddîn Ali Çelebi; he was the son of Mevlânâ Fahreddîn İlyâs; and he in turn was the son of Mevlânâ Cemâleddîn İbrâhim Aksarayî. He was one of the great scholars and notables of the city, and when Prince Sultan Alâeddîn Bey became governor of Amasya he was among his close associates. He died around 847 [1443-44]. His brother Şeyh Ahmed Çelebi was one of the great sheikhs of Bursa.

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • medfûn: buried
  • evlâd: children, descendants
  • kibâr-ı ulemâ: the great scholars
  • a'yân: the notables of a place
  • mukarreb: close, one admitted to the presence
  • hudûd: border; in chronicles used in the sense of "around"
  • meşâyih: sheikhs

The Period of Prince Alâeddîn

The only dated information in the entry is that the man was close to Prince Alâeddîn Ali Çelebi during the latter's governorship of Amasya. The prince, a son of Murad II, was born in Edirne in 1425 and served in the sanjak governorships of Saruhan and Amasya. Most sources write that he was appointed to Amasya in 1440, at the age of fifteen; at that time his tutor was Hatîbzâde Tâceddîn İbrâhim Efendi. When his lala Yörgüç Pasha died in 1441, Paşazâde Mehmed Efendi took over this post. In 1443, returning from the war with the Karamanids, the prince died near Bursa as a result of an accident while riding, and was buried in the Muradiye Complex in Bursa. The date 847 given by Hüsameddin corresponds to the year of this death; one may suppose that the man died together with the prince or around the time of his death, but the text does not say so.

On the Genealogy

The names Mevlânâ Fahreddîn İlyâs and Cemâleddîn Aksarayî in the genealogy are well-known names in the scholarly history of Amasya. Sources describing Aksarayî write that he studied in Amasya under Fahreddîn İlyâs Rûmî, served as kadı and müderris, died in Aksaray in 1388 (791), and was buried there in his own zawiya. In these records his name appears as Muhammed. Hüsameddin, however, gives the name "İbrâhim" and says that his grave is in Sivas. Whether this is the same person or two different scholars bearing the same epithet could not be determined from the sources at hand. It is also written that Hacı Şadgeldi received his education in Amasya from Fahreddîn İlyâs, which shows the place of the said teacher in the city.

The name "Cemâloğlu" in the title also points to the Aksarayî lineage. It is written that the descent of Cemâl-i Halvetî (Çelebi Halife), a well-known figure among the Halvetîs of Amasya, goes back to Cemâleddîn İbrâhim Aksarayî; this circle, known as the Cemâlî family, points to a network of learning and Sufi order linking Amasya and Aksaray.

No information was found in any other source on İbrâhim Çelebi, the subject of the entry, or on his brother Şeyh Ahmed Çelebi of Bursa.

Bibliography

Primary sources

  • Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 6, p. 29–30. amasya.bel.tr

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