Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL
Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 7, p. 300 • Edited by: Prof. Dr. Safi ARPAGUŞ- Prof. Dr. Ahmet Hakkı TURABİ
Amasyalıdır. Gümüşlüoğlu demekle meşhûr olup müstevfî-i meşhûr Hâce Emîneddîn Yunus bin Abdullah el-Gümüşî mahdûmudur. Amasya‘da pederinin sâye-i ikbâlinde teayyün edib bir müddet Karahisâr-ı şarkî emîri, ba’dehû müstevfî ya’nî defterdâr oldu.
Babazâde Emîr Ziyaeddîn Mes’ûd Çelebi ile münâvebeten 700 tarihine kadar Anadolu Defterdârı ve bir müddet de Canik emîri olup 703’de vefât etdi. Mahdûmları Taceddîn Mahmûd, Burhâneddîn Ahmed, Emîneddîn Yunus Çelebilerdir. [118]
He was from Amasya. He is famous under the name Gümüşlüoğlu and was the son of the well-known müstevfî (head of the finance divan) Hâce Emîneddîn Yunus son of Abdullah el-Gümüşî. He rose to prominence in Amasya under his father's patronage and for a time was emir of Karahisâr-ı Şarkî (Şebinkarahisar), then müstevfî, that is, defterdar.
Serving in turn with Babazâde Emîr Ziyaeddîn Mes'ûd Çelebi, he was Defterdar of Anatolia until 700 [1300-01], was also for a time emir of Canik, and died in 703 [1303-04]. His sons were Taceddîn Mahmûd, Burhâneddîn Ahmed and Emîneddîn Yunus Çelebi.
Hüsameddin explains the müstevfî as "that is, defterdar". Müstevfî was the name given in Islamic states to the head of the divan in charge of financial affairs. In the Great Seljuk state this divan was an important office that came directly after the vizier, and some müstevfîs rose from it to the vizierate. The tax and collection officials in the provinces were answerable to the müstevfî, and he had a deputy who acted for him in his absence. Among the Anatolian Seljuks the müstevfî looked after all financial matters except the land and iktâ registers. The historian İbn Bîbî speaks of the müstevfî Mecdüddin Erzincânî as "emîr-i celîl müstevfî" (the illustrious emir and müstevfî), an expression that shows the standing of the office in Anatolia.
The appointment decrees issued to müstevfîs included advice such as that the holder should collect the revenue of the whole Seljuk land, appoint competent agents, keep the taxes well protected and not depart from justice when collecting them. In accounting a special script and numeral system called siyâkat was used, and mastering it was essential. Among the Ilkhanids the official in charge of financial affairs was at first called "defterdâr-i memâlik", and shortly before Ghazan Khan the word müstevfî came to replace it. Hüsameddin's placing of the two words side by side may reflect this transitional period in which the older and newer names mixed; but this is an inference, and the text does not say so.
The dates 700 and 703 that Hüsameddin gives fall around 1300, the years when the Anatolian Seljuk state was weakening under Mongol rule. After the Battle of Kösedağ in 1243 Amasya began to be governed by Mongol governors, and afterwards passed under Eretna, who ruled at Sivas, and his successors. In this fragmented political setting it was usual for financial offices to be concentrated in local families; the weight of the Gümüşlüoğlu family in Amasya can be considered within this frame.
According to a record attributed to the third volume of Hüsameddin's work, "Gümüşlüoğlu Hacı Sinaneddin Yusuf" served as defterdar in the time of the emir of Amasya Hacı Şadgeldi Pasha (1359-1381). This record suggests that the family in question remained connected with Amasya's finances for some time longer. In addition, the Gümüşlü Mosque in Amasya, dated 1326, stands today, and the Halvetî sheikh and mufti Gümüşlüzâde Abdurrahman Çelebi (d. 1497-98) is also known by a family name derived from the same word. A connection between these names and the family of Emîneddîn Yunus is not clearly established in the sources at hand; it is noted only as a similarity of names.
In searches about Hâce Emîneddîn Yunus el-Gümüşî, his son İsmâil Bey and Babazâde Ziyaeddîn Mes'ûd Çelebi, no direct information was found. The dates concerning the emirate of Karahisâr-ı Şarkî, the Defterdarship of Anatolia and the emirate of Canik rest only on Hüsameddin's record and could not be confirmed in another source.