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Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL

İbrâhim Efendi — Hacı Hoca

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 6, p. 54 • Edited by: Doç. Dr. Recep Orhan ÖZEL - Doç. Dr. Metin HAKVERDİOĞLU

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Köprülüdür. Amasya’da Merzifonî el-Hâc Mustafa, İkincizâde Abdullah Sânî Efendilerden tahsîl-i ulûm edib ahz-i icâzetle Köprü’ye avdet etdi. Orada ders-i âm ve 1129’da Murâd Bey’in mâlikânesi mutasarrıfı ve Abdulkerîm Ağa Medresesi müderrisi olduğu halde 1150 senesi muharreminin yirmi beşinci günü vefât etdi. Kibâr-ı ulemâdan fakîh, müteşerri’ bir zât idi.

Our Research Article Editor: Mevlüt Erdem Öztürk

In Modern English

He was from Köprü. After studying in Amasya under the scholars Merzifonlu el-Hâc Mustafa and İkincizâde Abdullah Sânî Efendi and receiving an icazet, he returned to Köprü. There he became ders-i âm; while he was mutasarrıf of Murâd Bey's mâlikâne (lifetime income) in 1129 [1717] and müderris of the Abdulkerîm Ağa Madrasa, he died on the twenty-fifth day of Muharram 1150 [1737]. He was one of the great scholars, a jurist, a man devoted to the sharia.

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • tahsîl-i ulûm: studying the sciences
  • ahz-i icâzet: receiving permission (icazet) to teach
  • ders-i âm: a müderris giving public lectures
  • mâlikâne: the right to use a source of income for life
  • mutasarrıf: one who holds something and benefits from it
  • kibâr-ı ulemâ: the great scholars
  • fakîh: scholar of Islamic law
  • müteşerri': one who follows the sharia

The Köprü District

The place Hüsameddin calls "Köprü" is today Vezirköprü, in Samsun province. Evliya Çelebi in 1647 describes the town as the "Köprü" district attached to the Sanjak of Amasya and writes that it had 140 villages; Köprü was greatly affected by the Celali rebellions. This description makes it natural for a scholar from Köprü to go to Amasya to study and, once trained, to return to the district to which he belonged; for at the time of Evliya Çelebi's travels Köprü was within the boundaries of the sanjak of Amasya.

No information on the Abdulkerîm Ağa Madrasa in which İbrâhim Efendi served, or on Murâd Bey's mâlikâne, was found in a readable source other than Hüsameddin. In some sources a madrasa of Abdülkerim Ağa built in the eighteenth century in Vezirköprü was seen mentioned; however, since the relevant page could not be read, this information could not be verified.

Bibliography

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