Amasyalıdır. Aslen Sivaslı olup Amasya’da tedrîs ve ikâmet eden meşâhîr-i fuzalâdan Mevlânâ Musliheddîn Mûsâ bin Mahmûd bin Ahmed bin Emîr Hasan bin İnanç’ın mahdûmu olduğu münâsebetle Muslihzâde demekle meşhûr oldu. Amasya kadı’l-kudâtı Mevlânâ Celâleddîn Abdurrahman el-Muslihi’nin birâderidir.
Amasya’da ikmâl-i tahsîl ederek ders-i ‘âm ve Müderris-i Atabegiye olmuşdu. 801’de kadı-i Sivas olarak oraya gitdi. 804 evâilinde Topal Timur Hân’ın Sivas’ı istilâsında kaçıp Amasya’ya can atdı. Çelebi Sultân Mehmed Hân’ın Amasya Hükümdârı olduğu esnâda ikinci defa kadı-i Sivas olup 817 hudûdunda vefât etdi. [61] Ulemâ-yı kudâtdan bir zât-i sütûde-simât idi. Mahdûmları Celâleddîn Abdulvehhâb Efendi ile fuzalâ-yı Mısriyyeden Alâeddîn Ali er-Rûmî pek meşhûr idiler. Tercemeleri aşağıda gelir.
In Modern English
He was a native of Amasya. Being the son of Mevlânâ Musliheddin Musa, one of the famous scholars originally from Sivas who settled in Amasya to teach (Musa was the son of Mahmud, son of Ahmed, a descendant of İnanç, son of Emir Hasan), he became famous as Muslihzâde. He was the brother of the chief judge of Amasya, Mevlânâ Celâleddin Abdurrahman el-Muslihî.
Completing his education in Amasya, he had become ders-i âm (holder of the authority to give lessons open to all) and müderris (madrasa professor) of the Atabegiyye Madrasa. In 801 [1398-99] he went to Sivas as its judge. At the beginning of 804 [1401-02], when Timur the Lame seized Sivas, he fled and took refuge in Amasya. While Çelebi Sultan Mehmed Han was the ruler of Amasya, he became judge of Sivas for the second time and died around 817 [1414-15]. He was one of the judge-scholars, a man of good character and countenance. His sons Celâleddin Abdulvehhâb Efendi and Alâeddin Ali er-Rûmî, among the scholars of Egypt, were very famous. Their biographies come below.
Notes and Research
Old Words in the Text
- meşâhîr-i fuzalâ: famous scholars
- ders-i âm: giving lessons open to all, teaching as a müderris
- Müderris-i Atabegiyye: müderris of the Atabegiyye Madrasa
- kadı-i Sivas: judge of Sivas
- istilâ: seizure
- can atmak: to take refuge, to flee and escape
- ulemâ-yı kudât: scholars who were judges
- sütûde-simât: praised, of fine countenance and fine character
A Judge Between Amasya and Sivas
İbrahim Çelebi's life shows how Amasya and Sivas were connected through Timur's invasion and the Interregnum. Timur took Sivas in 1400 after a long siege; the city suffered heavy damage. Hüsameddin says the beginning of 804, which corresponds to 1401-02; there is a difference of about a year from the date of 1400 given by encyclopedic sources.
Çelebi Sultan Mehmed, in the confused years after the Battle of Ankara, made Amasya his center and sent his commander Bayezid Pasha to take Sivas; Sivas passed into Ottoman hands a second time in 810 [1407-08]. Hüsameddin's "judge of Sivas for the second time" agrees with this period.
The Atabegiyye Madrasa in Amasya was built between 1322 and 1327 by the governor of Amasya Nâsıreddin Ahmed Atabey, who endowed all his property to this madrasa. Muslihzâde's being a müderris here shows that the madrasa was still a living center of learning at the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth century. No information was found in other sources on the Muslihzâde family and Celâleddin Abdurrahman el-Muslihî.
Bibliography
Primary sources
- Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 6, p. 29–29. amasya.bel.tr
Academic studies
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