Köprülüdür. Köprülü Mehmed Paşa’nın kayınbirâderi ve kethüdâsı el-Hâc Mehmed Ağazâde Yûsuf Ağa’nın mahdûmu olup “Dedezâde” denirdi. Bâb-ı âlîde kethüdâ kalemine girip tefeyyüz ederek Ammizâde Hüseyin Paşa’nın sadâretinde kethüdâ kâtibi ve 1110’da sadâret tezkirecisi oldu. Tezkireci demekle iştihâr etdi.
1114 senesinde sadr-ı müşârün-ileyhin isti’fâsını müte’âkib azledildi. 1115 rebiülevvelinde Sultân Ahmed Hân-ı Sâlis cülûsunda yine tezkireci, 1122’de Osmâncıklı Baltacı Mehmed Paşa’nın sadâretinde kethüdâ-yı sadr-ı âlî ve azlinde yine sadâret tezkirecisi, 1127 evâilinde Sadr-ı Şehîd Ali Paşa’nın kendisine iğbirârı yüzünden sipâhiler kâtibi ve ramazânında Mora tahrîr me’mûru olup gitdi. [136]
1128 evâsıtında rûz-nâme-i evvel ve sene-yi mezbûre zilka’desi Sadr-ı a’zam Ali Paşa’nın şehâdeti ve Halîl Paşa sadâreti üzerine sânîyen kethüdâ-yı sadr-ı âlî, 1129 senesi cumâdelâhiresinde Rumeli pâyesiyle kapıcılar kethüdâsı ve müte’âkiben mîrâhûr ve şa’bânında vezâretle rikâb-ı hümâyûn kâ’im-makâmı vekîli oldu.
1129 şevvâlinde Sofya muhâfızı ve zilka’desinde Hânya muhâfızı oldu. Ancak Sadr-ı a’zam Kayseriyeli Mehmed Paşa’nın kendi hakkındaki sû’i-niyetinden dolayı tekâ’üdüni istid’â ederek müsa’ade alıp cânını kurtardı. Tekfûrdağı ikâmetine müsa’ade buyuruldu.
1132 senesinde Sadr-ı a’zam Nevşehirli Dâmâd İbrâhim Paşa’nın himmetiyle vezâreti bil-ibkâ Yenikale ve Bender muhâfızı ve 1133’de Eğriboz vâlisi olup 1134 senesi şa’bânında orada vefât etdi. Hall ü akte muktedir, umûr-ı devlete muttali’, halîm, sâkit, vakûr, ma’rifet-perver bir vezîr idi. Bu yüzden sanâdîd-i vüzerânın istirkâbına ma’rûz kalmıştı.
In Modern English
He was a Köprülü man. He was the son of el-Hâc Mehmed Ağazâde Yûsuf Ağa, brother-in-law and kethüda of Köprülü Mehmed Pasha; he was called "Dedezâde." He entered the kethüda office at the Sublime Porte and rose. Under the grand vizierate of Ammizâde Hüseyin Pasha he became kethüda clerk, and in 1110 [1698-99] he became tezkireci of the grand vizierate. He became known by the title tezkireci.
In 1114 [1702-03] he was dismissed after the resignation of that grand vizier. In Rabiulevvel 1115 [1703], at the accession of Sultan Ahmed III Han, he became tezkireci again. In 1122 [1710-11], under the grand vizierate of Osmancıklı Baltacı Mehmed Pasha, he became kethüda of the grand vizier, and upon that vizier's dismissal he became tezkireci of the grand vizierate again. At the beginning of 1127 [1715], because the martyred Grand Vizier Ali Pasha had taken offense at him, he became clerk of the sipahis; in the month of Ramadan he went to the Morea as tahrir official there.
In the middle of 1128 [1716] he was appointed to the first ruznamçe post. In Dhu al-Qa'dah of the same year, when Grand Vizier Ali Pasha fell as a martyr and Halil Pasha became grand vizier, he became kethüda of the grand vizier for the second time. In Jumada al-Akhirah 1129 [1717] he became kapıcılar kethüdası with the rank of Rumelia, immediately afterward mîrahur (head of the palace stables), and in the month of Sha'ban acting kaymakam of the sultan's army with the rank of vizier.
In Shawwal 1129 he became warden of Sofia, and in Dhu al-Qa'dah warden of Chania. But because of the ill intent toward him of Grand Vizier Kayserili Mehmed Pasha, he asked for retirement; when it was granted he saved his life. He was allowed to reside in Tekfurdağı.
In 1132 [1719-20], through the efforts of Grand Vizier Nevşehirli Damad İbrahim Pasha, he was made warden of Yenikale and Bender with his vizierate preserved, in 1133 [1720-21] he became governor of Eğriboz, and he died there in Sha'ban 1134 [1722]. He was a vizier capable in "untying and binding," that is, in running the state, well versed in affairs of state, gentle in temperament, calm and dignified, a protector of knowledge and of those who have it. For this reason he had suffered the pressure and contempt of the powerful viziers of his day.
Notes and Research
Old Words in the Text
- kayınbirâder: a wife's brother
- kethüdâ: steward, deputy who runs a statesman's affairs
- tezkireci: senior clerk who drew up writings called tezkere in the grand vizier's office
- sipâhiler kâtibi: clerk who kept the records of the sipahi units
- tahrîr me'mûru: person charged with conducting the census of population and revenue of a region
- rûz-nâme-i evvel: the first office of the daily income and expenditure register, a senior post in the finance department
- mîrâhûr: head of the sultan's stables
- rikâb-ı hümâyûn kâ'im-makâmı: kaymakam acting on the sultan's behalf, in Istanbul or on the campaign route, while the sultan's army was on campaign
- muhâfız: official of governor's rank responsible for defending a fortress and its surroundings
- tekâ'üd: retirement
- hall ü akt: the power to untie and bind a matter, to administer
- istirkâk: enslavement, looking down on and subjugating; "istirkâka ma'rûz kalmak" means to suffer pressure and humiliation
Dedezâde the Tezkireci
Hüsameddin writes that this vizier was a Köprülü man and that his father was the brother-in-law and kethüda of Köprülü Mehmed Pasha. In the book this relationship is mentioned as a tie of service and kinship with the Köprülü family; no detail is given.
The dates in the book fall into place when read alongside the known events of the period. Nevşehirli Damad İbrahim Pasha took part in 1127 [1715] in Damad Ali Pasha's Morea campaign as mevkûfatçı, and after the Morea was retaken he was charged with its survey. That Dedezâde İbrahim went to the Morea in the same year as tahrir official in the text coincides with the period when this census work was carried out. Damad İbrahim Pasha became grand vizier on 8 Jumada al-Akhirah 1130 [9 May 1718]. The "Grand Vizier Nevşehirli Dâmâd İbrâhim Pasha" that Hüsameddin mentions for 1132, that is, the person who helped preserve his vizierate, is precisely this grand vizier. The note at the end of the text, "died at Eğriboz," is dated 1134 [1721-22]; Damad İbrahim Pasha's grand vizierate was to end with the Patrona rebellion in 1143 [1730].
The frequent dismissals and reappointments in the pasha's sequence of offices can be read as a consequence of the fact that in that period clerks and kethüdas changed places whenever the grand vizier changed. This is an interpretation; Hüsameddin gives the reasons himself: first the grand vizier's resignation, then another grand vizier's displeasure, and finally the ill intent of Kayserili Mehmed Pasha.
No detail on the life of Dedezâde İbrahim Pasha was found in any source other than Hüsameddin. The same nickname "Dedezâde" is used in entry 169 for another İbrâhim Pasha, kethüda of Köprülüzâde Fâzıl Abdullah Pasha; the book draws no link between the two.
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