Amasyalıdır. Amasya tüccârından ve a’yânından Hâce İzzeddîn Hasan Çelebi bin Hâce Alâeddîn Ali Çelebi bin Hasan oğludur. “Zilelioğlu” demekle meşhûr olan bu zât Amasya’nın a’yân-ı tüccârından olub 864 sâlinden sonra vefât etdi. Mahdûmu hattât-ı meşhûr Abdullah Efendi esâtizedendir.
Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL
İlyâs Çelebi-Zilelizâde Hâce el-Hâc
Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 7, p. 344 • Edited by: Prof. Dr. Safi ARPAGUŞ- Prof. Dr. Ahmet Hakkı TURABİ
Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)
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Editor: Mevlüt Erdem Öztürk
In Modern English
He was from Amasya. He was the son of Hâce İzzeddin Hasan Çelebi, one of the merchants and notables of Amasya; İzzeddin Hasan was the son of Hâce Alâeddin Ali Çelebi, who was the son of Hasan. This man, famous as "Zilelioğlu," was among the leading merchants of Amasya and died after 864 [1459-60]. His son, the famous calligrapher Abdullah Efendi, is among the masters.
Notes and Research
Old Words in the Text
- a'yân: notables, the leading people of a city
- tüccâr: merchants
- hattât: calligrapher
- esâtize: teachers, masters
- mahdûm: son
The Calligrapher Abdullah Efendi
The entry calls the subject's son "the famous calligrapher Abdullah Efendi." Among the calligraphers who came from Amasya there is an artist with this name, known as Abdullah Amâsî. His dates of birth and death are not known; from the nisba Amâsî it is understood that he was from Amasya. Taking into account that he lived to the age of eighty and that a piece of his calligraphy dated 1518 exists, it is suggested that he was born in the time of Fâtih (1451-1481) and died in the time of Yavuz Sultan Selim (1512-1520). He was a relative and probably a student of Sheikh Hamdullah Efendi (d. 1520), and after Hamdullah's death he trained his son Mustafa Dede. He came to Istanbul in the time of Bayezid II (1481-1512).
No record stating that this calligrapher was the son of Zilelioğlu was found in the sources read. That the two are the same person does not contradict the chronology: the father died after 864 [1459-60], and it is possible that the son was born in Fâtih's time. Still, this is an inference and not certain.
Trade and Notables in Amasya
Amasya developed physically especially from the middle of the fifteenth century to the beginning of the sixteenth. The years in which Zilelioğlu lived fall in this period of growth. Hüsameddin's phrase "a'yân-ı tüccâr" places the family in a stratum enriched by trade and influential in the city. The kind of trade the family carried on, the origin of the epithet "Zilelioğlu" (whether there is a link with Zile), and İzzeddin Hasan and Alâeddin Ali Çelebi could not be found in the sources read.
Bibliography
- Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 7, p. 344–344. amasya.bel.tr