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Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL

İbrâhim Efendi — Şehirlizâde es-Seyyid Hâfız

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 6, p. 62 • Edited by: Doç. Dr. Recep Orhan ÖZEL - Doç. Dr. Metin HAKVERDİOĞLU

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Amasyalıdır. “Şehirlioğlu” demekle meşhûr el-Hâc Osmân Ağa bin Şehrî el-Hâc İbrâhim Ağa’nın mahdûmudur. Fâzıl-ı meşhûr Iydîzâde el-Hâc Âkif Mustafa Efendi’den, ba’dehû İstanbul’da Kazâbâdi el-Hâc Ahmed Efendi tilmizi Amasyalı Büyük Hâfız Mehmed Efendi’den ahz-ı ulûm ederek mücâz ve ders-i âm ve bil-imtihân 1168’de İstanbul müderrisi 1191’de Dârü’l-hadîs-i Süleymaniye müderrisliğinden Kudüs-i Şerîf Mollası oldu. 1196 senesi evâ’ilinde vefât etdi. Âlim, kâmil idi.

Our Research Article Editor: Mevlüt Erdem Öztürk

In Modern English

He was from Amasya. He was the son of el-Hâc Osman Ağa, known as "Şehirlioğlu"; Osman Ağa was the son of Şehrî el-Hâc İbrahim Ağa. He studied under the renowned scholar Iydîzâde el-Hâc Âkif Mustafa Efendi, and then under the Great Hâfız Mehmed Efendi of Amasya, who had been a student of Kazâbâdî el-Hâc Ahmed Efendi in Istanbul. He received his license (icazet) and gained the authority to give general lectures. By examination he became a madrasa professor in Istanbul in 1168 [1754-55], and in 1191 [1777-78] he went from the professorship at the Süleymaniye Dârülhadis to the office of Mollah of Jerusalem (Kudüs-i Şerîf). He died in the early part of 1196 [1781-82]. He was a learned and mature man.

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • mahdûm: son
  • tilmîz: student
  • mücâz: licensed (holding an icazet)
  • ders-i âm: public lecture
  • bil-imtihân: by examination
  • Dârülhadis-i Süleymâniye: the hadith madrasa in the Süleymaniye Complex
  • Kudüs-i Şerîf Mollası: the judge of Jerusalem; "molla" is the name of a rank in the judiciary
  • evâil: the early part

Advancement in the Professorate

The entry shows a move from a professorship in Istanbul to the Süleymaniye Dârülhadis, and finally to the mollahship of Jerusalem. According to the encyclopedia article, professors who rose from the lower madrasas advanced by examination to a professorship at the Sahn; professors at the Süleymaniye and dârülhadis grades stood on a ladder leading to the judgeship of Istanbul and to the military judgeships (kazasker) of Anatolia and Rumelia. Şehirlioğlu's career follows this line. Hüsameddin writes that he was appointed by examination to a professorship in Istanbul in 1168.

His teacher Iydîzâde Âkif Mustafa Efendi was a poet of Amasya of the same period and died in 1173 [1759-60]. No information could be found in the sources I read about his other teachers, Kazâbâdî Ahmed Efendi and the Great Hâfız Mehmed Efendi. No information could be found about the exact length of his term as Mollah of Jerusalem or about the Şehirlioğlu family. No information about this person was found in other sources either.

Bibliography

Primary sources

  • Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 6, p. 62–62. amasya.bel.tr

Academic studies

Other sources

  • İncinur Atik Gürbüz, "Âkif, Iydî-zâde Mustafa Âkif Efendi", Türk Edebiyatı İsimler Sözlüğü, 2014. https://teis.yesevi.edu.tr

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