Köprülüdür. Sâbık Şehrizor beylerbeyi olup "Dedezâdelik"le meşhûrdur. Köprülüzâde Abdullâh Paşa'nın dâ'iresinde 1149 zilhiccesinin yedinci günü Amasya mutasarrıfı oldu. Nâdir Şâh muhârebesiyle meşgûl olduğundan Köprü a'yânı Dedezâde Torun Ya'kûb Ağa'yı Amasya mütesellimi nasb etdi.
Zilhicce'nin on yedinci gecesi fuhûl-i ulemâdan Yörgüç Paşa müderrisi Kürd Hâfız Alî Efendi vefât edip mahdûmu fuzalâdan Hâfız Abdurrahmân Efendi müderris oldu.
1150 muharremi gurresinde Gürcüzâde Hacı İbrâhim Bey baş a'yân ve Yörgüçoğlu Hacı Hâfız Mustafâ Bey hacıbaşı ve safer evâ'ilinde vezîr Ya'kûb Paşa Sivâs vâlîsi olup geldi. Ba'dehû Usuloğlu Mustafâ Bey şehir kethüdâsı ve züamâdan Fethullâh Ağa alaybeyi oldu.
Ancak Amasya nâ'ibi Ahmed Efendi genç ve tecrübesiz olduğundan ba'zı ahvâl-i nâ-becâya cür'et ve mahkeme kâtibi Fazlıoğlu Hacı Mehmed Efendi buna mümâşât ederek halkı dilgîr etmekde idi.
Nihâyet vâlî Ya'kûb Paşa kendisine edilen [61] acı şikâyetlere dayanamadı. Nâ'ibi Amasya'dan kaldırıp İstanbul'a gönderdi. Kâtib de azl edilip ulemâdan Gümüşlü Hacı Mehmed Efendi mahkeme kâtibi ve cemâziyelevvel gurresinde Iydîzâde Abdurrahîm Efendi Amasya nâ'ibi oldu.
Cemâziyelâhir gurresinde Hacı Osmân Efendi Amasya kadısı olup nâ'ib ibkâ edildi. Yirmisinde Hazret-i Pîr İlyâs türbedâr ve mütevellîsi Yûsuf Efendizâde Abdurrahîm Efendi vefâtıyla birâderi Şeyh İsmâ'il Efendi türbedâr ve mütevellî ve zâviye şeyhi oldu.
In Modern English
He was from Köprü (today's Vezirköprü). A former beylerbeyi of Şehrizor, he is known by the nickname "Dedezâde." As a member of the household (the door-people) of Köprülüzâde Abdullah Pasha, he became mutasarrıf of Amasya on the seventh day of Zilhicce 1149 [8 April 1737]. Since he was occupied with the war against Nâdir Shah, he appointed Dedezâde Torun Yakub Ağa, one of the notables of Köprü, as mütesellim of Amasya.
On the night of the seventeenth of Zilhicce, Kürd Hâfız Ali Efendi, one of the foremost scholars and professor at the Yörgüç Pasha (Madrasa), died; his son Hâfız Abdurrahman Efendi, one of the virtuous scholars, became professor.
On the first day of Muharrem 1150 [1 May 1737], Gürcüzâde Hacı İbrahim Bey became chief notable and Yörgüçoğlu Hacı Hâfız Mustafa Bey became hacıbaşı; in early Safer the vizier Yakub Pasha came as governor of Sivas. Then Usuloğlu Mustafa Bey became city kethüda, and Fethullah Ağa, one of the zeamet holders, became alaybeyi.
However, since the naib of Amasya, Ahmed Efendi, was young and inexperienced, he ventured upon some unseemly acts, and the court clerk, Fazlıoğlu Hacı Mehmed Efendi, turned a blind eye to him and went along with him, wronging the people.
In the end the governor, Yakub Pasha, could not bear the bitter complaints made to him. He removed the naib from Amasya and sent him to Istanbul. The clerk was also dismissed; Gümüşlü Hacı Mehmed Efendi, one of the scholars, became court clerk, and on the first day of Cemaziyelevvel Iydîzâde Abdurrahîm Efendi became naib of Amasya.
On the first day of Cemaziyelâhir, Hacı Osman Efendi became kadı of Amasya; the naib was left in his post. On the twentieth of the month, upon the death of Yûsuf Efendizâde Abdurrahîm Efendi, keeper and mütevelli of the tomb of Hazret-i Pir İlyas, his brother Şeyh İsmail Efendi became keeper of the tomb, mütevelli and sheikh of the zaviye.
Notes and Research
Old Words in the Text
- beylerbeyi: the governor of a province made up of several sanjaks
- dâ'ire: the mansion and household of a statesman, the men raised in his service
- nasb etmek: to appoint
- fuhûl-i ulemâ: the foremost of the scholars
- mahdûm: son
- fuzalâ: virtuous and learned persons
- evâ'il: the first days, the beginning of a month
- ba'dehû: after this, thereafter
- züamâ: holders of zeamet (large military fiefs)
- alaybeyi: commander of the timar-holding sipahis of a sanjak
- ahvâl-i nâ-becâ: unseemly, improper acts
- mümâşât: turning a blind eye, going along with
- dilgîr etmek: to offend, to hurt
- ibkâ: leaving in office
- türbedâr: the official who looks after a tomb
- zâviye şeyhi: the sheikh at the head of a tekke or dervish lodge
Dedezâde İbrahim Pasha and the Notables of Köprü
Hüsameddin introduces this pasha only as "of Köprü." The Köprü in question is the town of Vezirköprü, which remained attached to Amasya until 1925 and is today a district of Samsun. The town developed in the seventeenth century through the buildings that Köprülü Mehmed Pasha had built and repaired there, and took its name from this family. That İbrahim Pasha is called by the nickname "Dedezâde," and that he chose as mütesellim Dedezâde Torun Yakub Ağa from among the notables of Köprü, suggests that he belonged to one of the local families of Köprü and had the city governed by a relative of his own. In the biographies in Hüsameddin's ninth volume too a Dedezâde family of Köprü appears: Dedezâde el-Hâc Hüseyin Ağa, who gained influence and wealth by serving as voivode of the district of Köprü for a long time, and Dedezâde el-Hâc Hüseyin Efendi, who traced his line to el-Hâc Dede Yûsuf Ağa, were members of this family at the end of the seventeenth century. However, no record was found showing by what route İbrahim Pasha was connected to this family.
The phrase "the household of Köprülüzâde Abdullah Pasha" in the text says that İbrahim Pasha was raised among the household of Köprülüzâde Abdullah Pasha, serasker of Iran. Since Abdullah Pasha had died at the battle of Arpaçay on 19 June 1735, İbrahim Pasha's belonging to this household at the time of the 1737 appointment was a tie from the past. No separate information on İbrahim Pasha was found in other sources. Hüsameddin will mention him a year later as mutasarrıf of Amasya for a second time and record that he was martyred within the same year.
The Question of the War with Nâdir Shah
Hüsameddin says the pasha was occupied with the war against Nâdir Shah. Yet on the Iranian front, after the Ottoman defeats of 1735, the war had turned to peace negotiations. According to Azmi Özcan, Nâdir was proclaimed shah on 8 March 1736 on condition that the Ja'farī school be adopted, and after months of negotiations the Ottoman side agreed on 24 September 1736 to the appointment of an emîr-i hac for Iranian pilgrims. Nâdir then turned east and took Kandahar in March 1738. It may therefore be supposed that at the time of the April 1737 appointment İbrahim Pasha was most likely in his former area of duty on the Iranian border, such as Şehrizor, occupied with post-war military and frontier affairs. The text's "battle of Nâdir Shah" should be understood as a general name for this eastern-front duty.
Naib Ahmed Efendi and the Problem of the Judgeship
The liveliest part of the entry is the young naib Ahmed Efendi and the court clerk wearing out the people's patience. In the previous entry Hüsameddin had related that Hacı İbrahim Efendi of Amasya, a former Anatolian kazasker, had taken the judgeship of Amasya as an arpalık and sent his nephew Ahmed Efendi as naib. As is plainly seen here, when a great scholar who took the judgeship as a livelihood left the work to a relative, the judiciary could end up in unsupervised hands. That the complaints reached the governor of Sivas and that the governor sent the naib to Istanbul shows how Amasya, a sanjak attached to the province of Sivas, appealed to higher administration. These events also foreshadow an arrangement, a year later, that went as far as raising the rank of the judgeship. No information about Yakub Pasha's governorship of Sivas was found in other sources.
The Yörgüç Pasha Madrasa
The madrasa of which Kürd Hâfız Ali Efendi was professor is the one beside the mosque that Atabeg Yörgüç Pasha had built on the bank of the Yeşilırmak in 834 [1430]. According to Emine Naza Dönmez, the madrasa has not survived; the closed section east of the mosque's entrance iwan is thought to have been the madrasa's lecture hall. The mosque itself still stands and contains four marble sarcophagi belonging to Yörgüç Pasha and his family. That the professorship passed from father to son is one of the examples showing that madrasa posts continued within families in eighteenth-century Amasya.
The Tomb of Pir İlyas and the Yûsuf Efendizâdes
The tomb of Hazret-i Pir İlyas, whose keepership changed hands, is the building located today within Pirler Park, also called the Upper Pirler Tomb. It was built in 1486 by Gümüşlüzâde Ahmed Bey for Sheikh Şücâeddin Pir İlyas of the same family; besides Pir İlyas it contains the graves of his son-in-law Pir Celâleddin Abdurrahman, his grandson Pir Hayreddin Hızır Çelebi and their families. It was renewed in 1688 by Gümüşlüzâde İbrahim Pasha, collapsed in the earthquake of 1895 and was rebuilt afterward. That the keepership, trusteeship and zaviye sheikhdom were combined in one person shows that the tomb operated within a waqf and tekke arrangement. According to Hüsameddin, Şeyh İsmail Efendi, who took the post, would be appointed a few years later, in 1153, to the first professorship of the Fâtımiye Madrasa, completed that year.
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