AMASYA 05

Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL

İbrâhim Çelebi — Kocacıkoğlu Hoca

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 6, p. 34 • Edited by: Doç. Dr. Recep Orhan ÖZEL - Doç. Dr. Metin HAKVERDİOĞLU

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Amasyalıdır. Meşâhîr-i tüccârdan Kocacıkoğlu Hoca Mehmed Çelebi mahdûmudur. Bunlara Kocacıkoğulları denirdi. Evrâk-ı Resmiyyede Kocacıkoğlu yazılıdır. Ceddînin yaptırdığı Kocacık Mescidi’ni müceddeden imâr ederek üç bab dükkân vakf ve hâsılâtından mescîd-i mezkûr mesâlihine vezâ’if [79] ta’yîn etdi. 931 sâlinden sonra vefât eyledi. A’yân-ı tüccârdan, sâhib-i hayr ve servet bir zât idi.

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In Modern English

He was a native of Amasya. He was the son of Kocacıkoğlu Hoca Mehmed Çelebi, one of the famous merchants. They were called the Kocacıkoğulları. In official documents he is written as Kocacıkoğlu. He restored the Kocacık Mosque built by his grandfather, endowed three shops as a waqf, and from their income fixed salaries for the mosque's services. He died after 931 [1524-25]. He was one of the leading merchants, a charitable and wealthy man.

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • meşâhîr-i tüccâr: famous merchants
  • ced: grandfather
  • müceddeden imâr: restoring anew
  • üç bâb dükkân: three shops
  • vezâ'if: duties and salaries
  • hâsılât: revenues
  • a'yân-ı tüccâr: the leading merchants

The Kocacık Quarter

A quarter named "Kocacıkoğlu" in Amasya appears in the old tahrir registers and in records of the mid-19th century. The name Kocacık still lives on in Amasya as the name of a market and a hill; their relation to the old quarter could not be verified in this research. Hüsameddin gives the details of the waqf (three shops and the salaries of officials from their income) on the basis of a document record. Whether the mosque still stands today could not be established in my searches.

No information was found in any other source on Kocacıkoğlu Hoca Mehmed Çelebi and his son İbrâhim Çelebi. The entry is one of the examples showing that in 15th-16th century Amasya merchant families left their mark on the city's fabric by building mosques and waqfs.

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