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Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL

İbrâhim Efendi — el-Hâc, Surre Emini

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 6, p. 51 • Edited by: Doç. Dr. Recep Orhan ÖZEL - Doç. Dr. Metin HAKVERDİOĞLU

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Amasyalıdır. Sicill ve Ferâşet Defterinde görüldüğü [137] sadr-ı esbak Kara İbrâhim Paşa’nın tâbi’i olup 1121 saferinin dokuzuncu günü vefât eden Amasyalı Mahmûd Ağa bin İbrâhim Ağa mahdûmudur. Bâb-ı âlîde tefeyyüz ederek hâcegândan olup 1124 senesinde Surre-i hümâyûn emîni olarak âzim-i Hicâz oldu. Zilhicce evâsıtında Mekke-i Mükerreme’de vefât etdi. Mahdûmu es-Seyyid Mustafa Efendi’ye ve evlâdına “Surre Emînizâdeler” dendi.

Our Research Article Editor: Mevlüt Erdem Öztürk

In Modern English

He was a native of Amasya. As seen in the Sicil and Ferâşet Register, he was the son of Mahmud Ağa of Amasya, son of İbrahim Ağa, who was one of the men of the former grand vizier Kara İbrahim Pasha and died on the ninth day of Safar 1121. Rising at the Sublime Porte, he became one of the hâcegân (divan clerks), and in 1124 [1712-13] he went to the Hejaz as emin of the Surre-i Hümâyûn. He died in Mecca in the middle of Dhu al-Hijjah. His son es-Seyyid Mustafa Efendi and his children were called the "Surre Emînizâdes."

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • tâbi': a person who works under a statesman, attached to him
  • mahdûm: son
  • hâcegân: the class of divan clerks
  • Surre-i Hümâyûn emîni: the person charged with carrying the surre, that is, the money and gifts the sultan sent each year to Mecca and Medina
  • âzim-i Hicâz: one setting out for the Hejaz
  • evâsıt: the middle

The Surre and the Surre Emini

Surre literally means a purse into which money or valuables are put. As a term it denotes the money, gold and other goods sent each year before the pilgrimage season to be distributed to the people of Mecca and Medina. Ottoman sultans sent the surre regularly after the Haramayn came under Ottoman rule in 1517. The surre procession was seen off from Istanbul with ceremony each year on the twelfth of Rajab or on the days following. From the eighteenth century the surre was sent overland via Damascus, which was also a gathering point for pilgrims coming from Syria, Anatolia, Iraq, Iran and Aleppo.

That İbrahim Efendi died in Mecca in the middle of Dhu al-Hijjah in 1124, the date Hüsameddin gives, falls in the very middle of the pilgrimage season; it is plausible that he died during the pilgrimage period after delivering the surre. This is an inference; the text does not state the cause of death. The name "Surre Emînizâdes" given to his family shows that the office turned into a family nickname in Amasya. No information on the surre emini office or on this family was found in any source other than Hüsameddin.

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