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İbrâhim Efendi — Hicâbîzâde es-Seyyid el-Hâc

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 6, p. 75 • Edited by: Doç. Dr. Recep Orhan ÖZEL - Doç. Dr. Metin HAKVERDİOĞLU

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Amasyalıdır. Ziyare’de medfûn es-Seyyid Abdulbâkî Hicâbî Efendizâde Hâfız es-Seyyid Mehmed Efendi’nin mahdûmudur. [217]

Caniklizâde el-Hâc Mehmed ve Sipâhî Ömer Efendilerden ahz-ı ulûm ederek mücâz ve ders-i âm oldu. 1247’de Lâdik’de Hızır Paşa Medresesi müderrisi olup orada ikâmet etdi. Tedrîs ü va’z ile iştigâl ederek 1270 hudûdunda vefât etdi. Ulemâdan, sâlih bir kimse idi.

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In Modern English

He is from Amasya. He is the son of Hâfız es-Seyyid Mehmed Efendi, son of es-Seyyid Abdülbâkî Hicâbî Efendi, who is buried at Ziyare.

He studied under Caniklizâde el-Hâc Mehmed Efendi and Sipâhî Ömer Efendi, received the ijaza, and became a ders-i âm (a madrasa professor authorized to teach). In 1247 [1831-32] he became professor at the Hızır Pasha Madrasa in Lâdik and settled there. Occupied with teaching and preaching, he died around 1270 [1853-54]. He was one of the scholars, a pious man.

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • medfûn: buried
  • Efendizâde: son of an efendi
  • ahz-ı ulûm: taking up learning, studying
  • mücâz: one who has received the ijaza, permitted to teach
  • ders-i âm: a madrasa professor authorized to give lectures open to the public
  • tedrîs ü va'z: teaching and preaching
  • iştigâl: being occupied with a task
  • hudûdunda: around, in the vicinity of

His Grandfather Hicâbî Abdülbâkî Efendi (Gül Baba)

İbrâhim Efendi's grandfather Hicâbî Abdülbâkî Efendi was a Naqshbandi sheikh and lodge poet known in the Amasya region as "Gül Baba". He was born in the city of Bahçesaray in Crimea; his date of birth is not known exactly. Upon the Russian occupation of Crimea he migrated to Amasya in 1774; his grandfather's being from Amasya is thought to have influenced this choice. In Amasya he studied under Ürgüplü Ahmed Efendi, one of the city's well-known scholars, and received the ijaza, then attached himself to Turhallı Şeyh Mustafa Efendi, of the Müceddidiyye branch of the Naqshbandiyya, and completed his spiritual training with him.

After he took the sheikh's seat he began guidance in the town of Ziyaret near Amasya; in 1797 he had the lodge known as the "Hicâbî Lodge" built next to the Keçioğlu Mosque and also repaired the mosque; from that date the mosque was called the Hicâbî Baba Mosque. He died in Ziyaret in 1238 [1822] and was buried in the tomb adjoining the mosque. The old name of the town is Ziyere; the place that appears as "Ziyare" in Hüsameddin's text is this one. The tomb is still visited today; in particular the people of the town who are about to go on the pilgrimage visit the tomb together before setting out. There are five sarcophagi in the tomb.

Information on Hicâbî's family circle is scant. It is understood that one of the sarcophagi in the tomb belongs to his son named "es-Seyyid Müderris Hâfız Mehmed Efendi". The Hâfız es-Seyyid Mehmed Efendi whom Hüsameddin names as İbrâhim Efendi's father is this person. Thus this entry carries the information drawn from the tomb inscriptions one generation further: Gül Baba's son is the professor Hâfız Mehmed Efendi, and his son is İbrâhim Efendi, who served as professor in Lâdik. Although the names of Gül Baba's son-in-law İbrâhim Zühdî Efendi and of his grandson İbrâhim Efendi, the subject of this entry, resemble each other, the two are different persons.

The Hızır Pasha Madrasa in Lâdik

Hızır Pasha was the brother of Yörgüç Pasha, who had a madrasa built in Amasya. In 870 [1465] he established three waqfs in Amasya, had a madrasa and a mosque built, created various posts for their needs, and stipulated that additional payment be made to the professors, repetitors and students of his brother's madrasa. Muhammet Okudan's study, based on archival documents, shows that the Hızır Pasha waqfs continued to exist until the Republican period.

In Lâdik too there was a madrasa bearing Hızır Pasha's name. According to the record related by Sadi Bayram, the nine-room timber madrasa in the Bahşi quarter of the township had been built by Hızır Pasha, and the madrasa had waqfs. In the records of the General Directorate of Foundations the "Hızır Pasha Madrasa Waqf" appears attached to the Amasya Accounting Office. In the same township, at the beginning of the eighteenth century, there was also a twelve-room madrasa built by Şeyhülislam Mehmed Efendi of Lâdik. The place where İbrâhim Efendi taught for more than twenty years, from 1247 [1831-32] until his death, is this timber madrasa in the Bahşi quarter. No information was found on whether the madrasa has survived to the present.

Bibliography

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  • Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 6, p. 75–75. amasya.bel.tr

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