Sivaslıdır. Esbak Amasya mutasarrıfı Mumcuzâde Sa’id İbrâhim Paşa’nın birâderi es-Seyyid Halîl Ağa’nın oğludur. Amcasının Amasya mutasarrıflığında pederiyle beraber gelip Amasya’da tevattun etdi. Hükûmet işlerinde istihdâm edilerek teayyün edib kazâlara müdür, ba’dehû Merzifon kâ’im-makâmı oldu. Ba’de’l-azl Amasya’da 1293’de vefât etdi. Mahdûmu es-Seyyid Halîl Şem’î Efendi Trablusgarb eyâleti evkâf muhâsebecisi iken 1318’de vefât etdi.
Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL
İbrâhim Efendi — Karabüber es-Seyyid
Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 6, p. 76 • Edited by: Doç. Dr. Recep Orhan ÖZEL - Doç. Dr. Metin HAKVERDİOĞLU
Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)
Our Research Article
Editor: Mevlüt Erdem Öztürk
In Modern English
He was from Sivas. He was the son of Seyyid Halîl Ağa, brother of Mumcuzâde Said İbrâhim Pasha, who had earlier served as mutasarrıf of Amasya. When his uncle was mutasarrıf of Amasya, he came with his father and settled in Amasya. Employed in state affairs, he became well known; he served as director in the kazas and afterward as district governor (kaymakam) of Merzifon. After being dismissed from his post he died in Amasya in 1293 [1876]. His son Seyyid Halîl Şem'î Efendi died in 1318 [1900] while accountant of waqfs in the province of Tripolitania.
Notes and Research
Old Words in the Text
- esbak: former, previous (one who has left office)
- mutasarrıf: the administrator at the head of a sanjak
- birâder: brother
- tevattun etmek: to make a place one's home, to settle
- istihdâm edilmek: to be employed in office; teayyün etmek: to become known, to become one of the notables
- ba'dehû: afterward; ba'de'l-azl: after being dismissed from office
- kâ'im-makâm: kaymakam, administrator of a kaza
- mahdûm: son
- evkâf muhâsebecisi: the official who keeps the accounts of waqf revenues and expenditures
A Family That Came Alongside a Mutasarrıf
The epithet "Karabüber" in the heading of the entry is not explained in the text; it appears to have remained the family's name in Amasya. According to Hüsameddin, the family settled in the city when the uncle, Mumcuzâde Said İbrâhim Pasha, came to Amasya as mutasarrıf. The nephew's entry into state service also took place in the shadow of this kinship; first came kaza directorships, then the district governorship of Merzifon. The text does not give the date of the uncle's governorship in Amasya.
No independent source on the lives of Mumcuzâde Said İbrâhim Pasha and his nephew could be reached. Since a list of the district governors of Merzifon for this period was also not found, it was not possible to compare İbrâhim Efendi's years as district governor with another document. No information was found on this person in other sources.
Tripolitania, given as the post of his son Halîl Şem'î Efendi, was a province attached to the Ottoman Empire in those years, in the territory of present-day Libya. That the second generation of a family raised in Amasya died at the other end of the empire while occupied with waqf accounts shows over how wide a geography the officials of the period moved.
Bibliography
- Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 6, p. 76. amasya.bel.tr