İbrâhim Hıfzî Paşa — Ocak İmâmızâde es-Seyyid

In Modern English

He was from Amasya. He is the son of Emîr Ağazâde es-Seyyid el-Hâc Halîl Efendi of Amasya, known in Istanbul as the Ocak İmamı; Halîl Efendi was the son of es-Seyyid Mustafa Ağa, who was the son of Emîr es-Seyyid Mehmed Ağa. He is the grandson of Gürcüzâde el-Hâc İbrahim Bey, the head of the notables of Amasya. Since in the chronicle he is known as es-Seyyid Hıfzî İbrahim Pasha, his biography will come below under the letter "hâ".

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

• Ocak İmâmı: the imam of a military corps (the exact corps cannot be understood from the text)
• aynü'l-a'yân: the most distinguished of the notables, the head of the leading men
• kerîmezâde: a daughter's son, a grandson through one's daughter
• terceme-i hâl: life story, biography
• harf-i hâ: the letter "hâ" of the Arabic alphabet; the book is ordered by letters

A Cross-Reference Entry

This entry is short and a cross-reference: the real biography of the person named İbrahim is under the letter "hâ" of the book, because that person is known by the name Hıfzî İbrahim Pasha. The word "kerîmezâde" in the entry shows that İbrahim Pasha is, on his mother's side, the grandson of Gürcüzâde İbrahim Bey. Gürcüzâde İbrahim Bey is a member of one of the leading families of Amasya, described in the entry "İbrahim Bey-Gürcüzâde el-Hâc" in the same volume; that entry states that the family descends from "Büyük Gürcü Ali Bey".

The pasha's names "Ocak İmâmızâde" and "Emîr Ağazâde" show the Seyyid lineage and the tradition of imamate on his father's side. Detail about Hıfzî İbrahim Pasha should be sought in the relevant entry of the book and in other sources; in the sources researched while writing this entry, no separate information on this person was found.

Bibliography

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