AMASYA 05

Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL

İbrâhim Efendi — Müftüzâde es-Seyyid el-Hâc

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 6, p. 60 • Edited by: Doç. Dr. Recep Orhan ÖZEL - Doç. Dr. Metin HAKVERDİOĞLU

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Amasyalıdır. Amasya müftüsü es-Seyyid el-Hâc Ali Efendizâde es-Seyyid eş-Şeyh Halîl Efendi’nin mahdûmudur. Amasya müftüsü Tokâdî es-Seyyid eş-Şeyh Mustafa ve Çorumlu es-Seyyid el-Hâc Ali Efendilerden ikmâl-i tahsîl edib ders-i âm ve ba’dehû Osmân Çelebi Dârü’l-Hadîsine müderris olduğu hâlde 1180 hudûdunda vefât etdi. Ulemâ-yı ma’rûfeden idi.

Our Research Article Editor: Mevlüt Erdem Öztürk

In Modern English

He was from Amasya. He was the son of es-Seyyid Sheikh Halîl Efendi, son of Ali Efendi, mufti of Amasya, es-Seyyid el-Hâc. After completing his studies with es-Seyyid Sheikh Mustafa of Tokat, mufti of Amasya, and es-Seyyid el-Hâc Ali Efendi of Çorum, he received the authority to give general lessons, then became müderris of the Osman Çelebi Dârülhadis and passed away around 1180 [1766-67]. He was among the well-known scholars.

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • mahdûm: son
  • ikmâl-i tahsîl: completing one's studies
  • ders-i âm: giving lessons open to all, the authority to give general lessons
  • Dârülhadis: a higher-level madrasa where the science of hadith was taught
  • müderris: a teaching member of a madrasa
  • hudûdunda: around
  • ulemâ-yı ma'rûfe: well-known scholars

A Müderris, Son of a Mufti

The entry describes a müderris whose father was the mufti of Amasya. In the same volume there are many examples of the office of mufti and müderris passing from one family to another; this record is one of them. Hüsameddin gives the date of death as "around" 1180, that is, the year is not certain.

The workings of the müderris career in the Ottoman Empire were as follows: a person who finished madrasa study and received the icazet was entered in the register of the kazasker and waited for his turn. When his turn came, he began at the lowest madrasa and rose grade by grade. The Osman Çelebi Dârülhadis in the entry is a hadith madrasa located in the upper part of these rungs. No information could be found in the sources I read about the madrasa's location, founding and waqf. No information on this mufti and müderris was found in other sources either.

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