Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL
Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 7, p. 307 • Edited by: Prof. Dr. Safi ARPAGUŞ- Prof. Dr. Ahmet Hakkı TURABİ
Amasyalıdır. Amasya a’yânından İbrâhim Çelebi bin Halil Çelebi bin Mehmed Çelebi mahdûmudur. Gümüşlüzâde hânedânından Şemsî Paşazâde Ahmed Paşa’ya dâmâd olup Amasya’da a’yân sırasına girdi.
Ba’dehû kethüdâsı ve Amasya mutasarrıflığında mütesellimi olarak teayyün edib Paşa’nın Kapdân-ı Deryâ vekâletinde kethüdâsı oldu. Kayın pederinin irtihâlinden sonra âzim-i Hicâz olup avdetde Küçük Ayasofya’da mukîm iken 1086’da vefât etdi. Halîlesi Neslihan Hânım ve mahdûmu vüzerâdan Çelebi İbrâhim Paşa’dır.
He was from Amasya. He was the son of İbrâhim Çelebi, one of the notables of Amasya; İbrâhim Çelebi was the son of Halil Çelebi, who was the son of Mehmed Çelebi. He became son-in-law to Şemsî Paşazâde Ahmed Pasha of the Gümüşlüzâde family and entered the ranks of the notables of Amasya.
Later he stood out clearly as the Pasha's kethüda and, during his tenure over the sanjak of Amasya, as his mütesellim; during the Pasha's deputyship for the Kapdân-ı Deryâ he became his kethüda. After the death of his father-in-law he set out for the Hejaz, and on his return, while living in Küçük Ayasofya, he died in 1086 [1675-76]. His wife was Neslihan Hanım and his son is the vizier Çelebi İbrâhim Pasha.
Küçük Ayasofya, named as the place where İsmâil Ağa died, is a quarter of Istanbul on the inner side of the southern walls facing the Marmara, between the Kadırga harbour and the Cankurtaran district. It takes its name from the mosque converted from a Byzantine church in the first years of the 16th century; the mosque forms a complex with a tomb, a zaviye-madrasa, a primary school and a bath. Hüsameddin's words "while living in Küçük Ayasofya" show this quarter as the place where İsmâil Ağa lived on his return.
The nisba "Gümüşlü" may be linked with Gümüş (today's Gümüşhacıköy), attached to Amasya; Yörgüç Pasha had a mosque built there and it has survived. But since the sources read contain nothing saying the Gümüşlüzâde family came from this settlement, this is only a possibility.
The person Hüsameddin calls "Şemsî Paşazâde Ahmed Pasha" could not be identified. The sources know a statesman named Şemsî (Şemsi Ahmed) Pasha (d. 1580), who served as beylerbey under Süleyman I and was Beylerbey of Rumeli at the 1566 Szigetvár campaign, was a hunting companion of Murad III and had Mimar Sinan build a mosque on the Bosphorus shore. His children are given in the source as a daughter and two sons: Fahrünnisa Hatun, Mahmud Pasha and Mustafa Bey; no son named Ahmed is mentioned. It could therefore not be verified which branch of this family the person Hüsameddin names belonged to, or that he served as deputy Kapdân-ı Deryâ.
Searches found no information in other sources on İsmâil Ağa, his father İbrâhim Çelebi, his son Çelebi İbrâhim Pasha or his wife Neslihan Hanım. The vizier named Çelebi İbrâhim Pasha could not be verified, as searches returned only results confused with another İbrâhim Pasha of the 16th century.
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