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Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL

İbrâhim Kemâleddîn Efendi — Tatar Hoca es-Seyyid el-Hâc

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 6, p. 70 • Edited by: Doç. Dr. Recep Orhan ÖZEL - Doç. Dr. Metin HAKVERDİOĞLU

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Kırımlıdır. Bahçesaray ulemâsından es-Seyyid Abdullah Efendi’nin mahdûmu ve Ziyare’de medfûn olan es-Seyyid eş-Şeyh Abdulbâkî Hicâbî Efendi’nin birâderidir. Buna es-Seyyid İbrâhim Kemâlî Efendi dendiğinden tercemesi aşağıda Kemâlî İbrâhim Efendi’ye harf-i kâf’da gelir.

Our Research Article Editor: Mevlüt Erdem Öztürk

In Modern English

He is from Crimea. He is the son of Seyyid Abdullah Efendi, one of the scholars of Bahçesaray, and the brother of Seyyid Şeyh Abdülbâki Hicâbî Efendi, who is buried at Ziyare. Since he is also called Seyyid İbrâhim Kemâlî Efendi, his life story will be given below under the letter "kâf", under the name Kemâlî İbrâhim Efendi.

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • ulemâ: scholars, men of religious learning
  • mahdûm: son
  • medfûn: buried
  • birâder: brother
  • terceme: life story, biography
  • harf-i kâf: the letter "k" of the alphabet; the section of the book beginning with this letter

A Migrant Family: From Crimea to Amasya

This short entry is a cross-reference that sends the reader to a later part of the book. Its main importance lies in linking the person to his well-known brother. Abdülbâki Hicâbî Efendi is the owner of the tomb, still visited today, in the town of Ziyaret (formerly Ziyare) in Amasya, and is also called "Gül Baba" among the people of the area. In the Hicâbî entry under the letter "H" of the book, Hüsameddin gives the family's descent in a long chain: the ancestors of Hicâbî, born in Rajab 1165 [1752] in Bahçesaray, served as mufti of Kefe for generations, and his earliest grandfather is Dede Cöngî Kemâleddîn İbrâhim Efendi, who was from Amasya and died in Bursa after leaving the muftiship of Kefe. At the end of the same entry, "his brother es-Seyyid Kemâleddîn İbrâhim Efendi" is also mentioned as "of the ulema"; the Tatar Hoca here is that brother. The choice of "Kemâleddîn İbrâhim" as a name points to the family's tradition of keeping alive the name of the great ancestor Dede Cöngî.

Dede Cöngî was a Hanafi jurist born in the sixteenth century in the village of Sonusa (today Uluköy) in Amasya, who turned to learning after working for a time as a tanner. He was appointed mufti of Kefe in 965 [1558], left his post because of old age in 972 [1565], and died in Bursa, where he spent the rest of his life in seclusion. That his descendants who had remained in Kefe returned to Amasya several generations later suggests that the family never severed its tie with this city.

His Brother Hicâbî and the Date of the Migration

Some sources write that Hicâbî migrated to Amasya in 1774, upon the Russian occupation of Crimea, and that his grandfather's being from Amasya may have played a part in this choice. Hüsameddin, however, relying on Hicâbî's own record, says that he came to Amasya in 1181 [1767-68] and attended the lessons of Ürgüplü Hacı Ahmed Efendi; this date is before the occupation of Crimea. The exact year of the migration therefore varies from source to source. When the brother came, where he taught in Amasya, and why he was called "Tatar Hoca" is not written in this entry. The nickname must come from his being a Crimean Tatar; but this is an inference.

The entry "Kemâlî İbrâhim Efendi" promised by Hüsameddin could not be found in the digital text we have. No information on Tatar Hoca Kemâlî İbrâhim Efendi was found in other sources either.

Bibliography

Primary sources

  • Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 6, p. 70–70. amasya.bel.tr
  • Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, entry "Hicâbî Abdulbâkî Efendi-Şeyh-i Nakşibendî", vol. 8, pp. 568–570.

Official sources

Other sources

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