AMASYA 05

Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL

İbrâhim Efendi — Memi Dedezâde, the Sheikh

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 6, p. 42 • Edited by: Doç. Dr. Recep Orhan ÖZEL - Doç. Dr. Metin HAKVERDİOĞLU

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Amasya meşâyih-i kirâmından eş-Şeyh Hamdullah Efendi bin eş-Şeyh Memi Dede mahdûmu olup eş-Şeyh el-Hâc Zâhid İbrâhim Efendi diye ma’rûf olduğundan tercemesi aşağıda gelir. Birâderi İsmâil Âbid Efendi de ma’rûfdur.

Our Research Article Editor: Mevlüt Erdem Öztürk

In Modern English

He was the son of Şeyh Hamdullah Efendi son of Şeyh Memi Dede, one of the sheikhs of Amasya. Since he was known as Şeyh el-Hâc Zâhid İbrâhim Efendi, his biography comes below. His brother İsmâil Âbid Efendi was also well known.

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • meşâyih-i kirâm: esteemed sheikhs
  • ma'rûf: well known, renowned
  • Zâhid: one who has withdrawn from the world, a pious person
  • Âbid: one who worships much
  • terceme: biography

The Family of Memi Dede

This entry is the continuation of the Memi Dede family told in entry 110. Şeyh Hamdullah Efendi is a son of Memi Dede and must be the brother of Memi Dedezâde İbrâhim Efendi, sheikh of the Hızır Pasha Lodge; his son Zâhid İbrâhim Efendi bears the same name as his uncle. Hüsameddin's saying "the biography of Zâhid İbrâhim Efendi comes below" shows that a separate entry is given to him further on in the book.

In studies on the Halvetî lodges in Amasya, Memi Dede and his family are mentioned together with the Hızır Pasha Lodge; however, no detail was found about Şeyh Hamdullah, Zâhid İbrâhim and İsmâil Âbid Efendi. The calligrapher Şeyh Hamdullah (d. 1520), who bears the same name, was born in the Eslem Hatun Quarter of Amasya and his father was the Suhrawardi sheikh Mustafa Dede; this person and Hamdullah, the son of Memi Dede, are different from each other.

Bibliography

Primary sources

  • Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 6, p. 42–42. amasya.bel.tr

Academic studies

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