AMASYA 05

Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL

İne Bey — İne Hânzâde

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 7, p. 384–385 • Edited by: Prof. Dr. Safi ARPAGUŞ- Prof. Dr. Ahmet Hakkı TURABİ

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Amasyalıdır. Ümerâdan Abdullah Bey bin Ca’fer Bey bin İne Hân Bey’in mahdûmudur. Fâtîh Sultân Mehmed Hân devrinde züamâdan iken Sultân Bâyezîd-i Sânî devrinde ümerâdan oldu. 892’de Yenişehir Beyi olup Mısır Harbi’ne me’mûr olarak ba’dehû vefât etdi. Sofu Bey demekle meşhûr ümerâdan idi.

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In Modern English

He was a native of Amasya. He was the son of the emir Abdullah Bey; Abdullah Bey was the son of Cafer Bey, and Cafer Bey the son of İne Hân Bey. In the time of Sultan Mehmed Han the Conqueror he was a holder of a zeamet, and in the time of Bayezid II he became one of the emirs. In 892 [1486-87] he became Bey of Yenişehir and was assigned to the Egyptian War; he died afterwards. He was one of the emirs famous as Sofu Bey.

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • mahdûm: son
  • züamâ: zeamet holders, sipahis who held a zeamet, a military land grant of high revenue
  • ümerâ: emirs, sanjak beys
  • me'mûr: assigned, appointed
  • ba'dehû: afterwards

Of the İne Hân Line

The chain of descent that Hüsameddin gives leads back to İne Hân Bey, named in the earlier entries of the same volume: Cafer Bey is among İne Hân's sons, and Abdullah Bey is Cafer Bey's son. So Sofu Bey is the son of İne Hân's grandson. Since İne Hân is written to have died around 810 [1407-08], Sofu Bey becoming a sanjak bey in 892 [1486-87] fits the roughly eighty years in between.

The War with Egypt

The "Egyptian War" in the text refers to the war fought against the Mamluks in the time of Bayezid II. The war began in 1485 and lasted until 1491; the fighting took place largely in Cilicia, around Adana and Tarsus. The army under the governor of Karaman, Karagöz Mehmed Pasha, was defeated before Adana in February 1486; in March of the same year the reinforcements brought by Hersekzâde Ahmed Pasha were also routed and Hersekzâde was taken prisoner. In 1487 a new and large army was sent under Grand Vizier Koca Davud Pasha; the fleet and Dulkadır forces moved together with this army. The date of appointment that Hüsameddin gives as 892 [1486-87] corresponds to the years of this campaign. With which unit Sofu Bey served, in which engagement, and where and when he died are not mentioned in the sources we read.

Yenişehir

Hüsameddin does not say which Yenişehir Sofu Bey was bey of. Since there is more than one place of this name in Ottoman lands, the location of the sanjak cannot be understood from the text.

Bibliography

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