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Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL

İslâm Efendi (el-Hâc)

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 7, p. 297 • Edited by: Prof. Dr. Safi ARPAGUŞ- Prof. Dr. Ahmet Hakkı TURABİ

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Zilelidir. Abdullah oğludur. Amasya’da Kadızâde Küçük Hâce Mehmed Efendi’den ikmâl-i tahsîl edib ders-i âm, müderris, kasâbât ve bilâda kadı oldu. 1061’de Atabeg Gâzi Medresesi müderrisliğiyle mütekâid olduğu halde Kurşunlu Mahallesi’nde ikâmet ve 1068’de vefât etdi. Âlim, fakîh, kâmil idi.

Our Research Article Editor: Mevlüt Erdem Öztürk

In Modern English

He was from Zile. He was the son of Abdullah. He completed his education in Amasya under Kadızâde Küçük Hâce Mehmed Efendi and became a ders-i âm (teacher of general lessons), a müderris (madrasa professor), and a judge in towns and cities. In 1061 [1651] he retired from the post of müderris at the Atabeg Gâzi Madrasa, yet he lived in the Kurşunlu quarter until he died in 1068 [1657-58]. He was a scholar, a jurist and a mature person.

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • ikmâl-i tahsîl: completing one's education
  • ders-i âm: one who gives lessons open to everyone, a teacher of general lessons
  • müderris: madrasa professor
  • kasâbât ve bilâd: towns and cities
  • mütekâid: retired
  • ikâmet: residing, settling
  • fakîh: jurist, scholar of fiqh
  • kâmil: mature, perfected

The Atabeg Gâzi Madrasa

The Atabeg Gâzi Madrasa, İslâm Efendi's last post, may be the same building as the Atabey Madrasa in Amasya; the text does not make this link, so this is an inference. The Atabey Madrasa was built by Nâsıreddin Ahmed Atabeg during his governorship of Amasya between 1322 and 1327, and he endowed all his land and property to it. The family known as the Atabeyzâdes comprises the descendants of Nâsıreddin Ahmed Bey, the atabeg of Gazi Çelebi Tâceddin Altunbaş, son of the Seljuk Sultan II. Gıyâseddin Mes'ud. The Atabeyzâdes also held offices in the Ottoman state, and in the fifteenth century serving as a prince's tutor (lala) became almost a tradition for them. The family later divided into two main branches: the descendants of Yörgüç Pasha were called the Yörgüç Pashazades, and the children of his brother Hızır Pasha the Hızır Pashazades.

Amasya, City of Madrasas

At the beginning of the sixteenth century Amasya had nine mosques and ten madrasas. In the Seljuk period madrasas such as Halifet Gazi, Gökmedrese, Alaca Yahya and Ata Bey were built, and the city became one of the main educational centers of the region. Today more than forty madrasas are known to have existed in the city. The traveler G. Perrot, who came to Amasya in 1861, called it "the Oxford of Anatolia" and wrote that nearly two thousand students studied in its madrasas. İslâm Efendi's course in the middle of the seventeenth century, that is, studying in a madrasa, serving as a judge in other places, then returning to the same city and retiring as a müderris, shows a typical path within this educational tradition. This inference rests on the record in the text; no other source gives particular information about him.

The Tradition of the Ijaza

The phrase "ikmâl-i tahsîl" in the text points to madrasa education completed with an ijaza (certificate of authorization). A study of the ijaza documents of late Amasya müderrises shows that the chains of teachers in these documents converge on Ebû Saîd Muhammed el-Hâdimî and from him continue in two main branches, to Bukhari and to Abu Hanifa. Since no such document survives for İslâm Efendi's teachers in the middle of the seventeenth century, he cannot be tied to the same chain; it still shows how the path of education worked.

The Kurşunlu Quarter

Another entry in Hüsameddin's book (Melik İsmâil Gâzi) states that the Yağıbasan Han was in the Kurşunlu quarter of İçerişehir, that the han was later called Kurşunlu Han, and that the quarter took its name from it. The Kurşunlu quarter where İslâm Efendi lived until his death is this quarter. The encyclopedia entry on the Danishmendids notes that the Yağıbasan Han and the Palace of Dânişmend Gazi, both of the Danishmend period, have not survived.

What Could Not Be Verified

No information was found in other sources on İslâm Efendi, son of Abdullah, of Zile, or on his teacher Kadızâde Küçük Hâce Mehmed Efendi. No relationship could be shown between this teacher and the movement of Kadızâde Mehmed Efendi (d. 1045 [1635]), known for his sermons in Istanbul; a likeness between the two names is not enough to establish a link. The information in the text rests on Hüsameddin's record.

Bibliography

Primary sources

  • Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 7, p. 297. amasya.bel.tr

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