Amasyalıdır. Amasya‘da câmi-i şerîfi olan İbadullah Çelebi mahdûmudur. Gümüşlüzâde Pîr Abdurrahman Çelebi hizmetinde ulûm-ı şer’iyyeyi ve maârif-i sûfiyyeyi ahz ederek müşârün-ileyhden nâil-i hilâfet oldu.
Ba’dehû Selamet Hâtun Tekkesi şeyhi olup Şehzâde Sultân Ahmed bin Sultân Bâyezîd-i Sânî devrinde fevkalâde iştihâr ederek 930 sâline doğru vefât etdi. Âlim, kâmil, Halvetî-meşrep, vâiz, müttakî bir zât idi. Mahdûmları Mehmed, Mustafa Çelebilerdir. [124]
Mehmed Efendi Yamak Şeyh demekle meşhûr olup 958’de İstanbul’a gitdi. Bunun mahdûmları İsmâil, Abdülâli, Yahya Efendilerdir. Abdülâli Çelebizâde Ya’kub Çelebi hattât-ı meşhûrdur. Yahya Çelebizâde es-Seyyid Şükrullah Efendi de kudâtdandır. Mustafa Çelebizâde Mehmed Çelebi 910’da Hicâz’a gitmişdi.
In Modern English
He was from Amasya. He was the son of İbadullah Çelebi, who had a mosque in Amasya. Serving under Gümüşlüzâde Pîr Abdurrahman Çelebi, he learned the religious sciences and the knowledge of Sufism and received the caliphate (hilâfet) from him.
Then he became sheikh of the Selamet Hatun Lodge and, becoming very famous in the time of Prince Sultan Ahmed son of Sultan Bâyezîd II, died around the year 930 [1523-24]. He was a scholar, a mature man, on the Halvetî path, a preacher and a pious man. His sons were Mehmed and Mustafa Çelebi.
Mehmed Efendi was known as Yamak Şeyh and went to Istanbul in 958 [1551]. His sons were İsmâil, Abdülâli and Yahya Efendi. Abdülâli Çelebizâde Ya'kub Çelebi is a famous calligrapher. Yahya Çelebizâde es-Seyyid Şükrullah Efendi was also among the kadıs. Mustafa Çelebizâde Mehmed Çelebi had gone to the Hejaz in 910 [1504-05].
Notes and Research
Old Words in the Text
- ulûm-ı şer'iyye: the religious sciences
- maârif-i sûfiyye: the knowledge of Sufism
- ahz etmek: to take, to learn
- müşârün-ileyh: the person named, the person spoken of
- nâil-i hilâfet: one who has received the caliphate; one who has gained permission to succeed the sheikh
- Halvetî-meşrep: on the path of the Halvetî order
- vâiz: religious functionary who delivers sermons
- müttakî: God-fearing, pious
- hattât: calligrapher
- kudât: kadıs
The Selamet Hatun Zâviye
The building Hüsameddin calls the "Selamet Hatun Lodge" appears in waqf records as the "Selâmet Hatun Zâviye". This zâviye was built in 857 [1453] by Selamet Hatun, daughter of Nizameddin Abdurrahman Muslihi, also known as Molla Beylik, one of the kadıs of Amasya; in some records Selamet Hatun is also seen being called "Ya-Vevud (Vedud)", and this information is also traced to Hüsameddin's work. The income of some villages of the Argoma district was endowed to the zâviye, and in a record of 1576 the village incomes were allotted to the Selamet Hatun zâviye together with the zâviyes of Paşa Hatun and Burse Hatun. One of the waqf conditions is that the administrators be determined by lineage (evlâdiyet üzere). That the zâviye was founded in 1453 fits historically with İsmâil Çelebi's being its sheikh; but no other record documenting this office of his was found.
The Halvetî Order in Amasya
The Yâkub Pasha Lodge shows that the Halvetî order took root early in Amasya. In the city, the Yâkub Pasha (Çilehâne) Lodge in the Pîrler quarter was founded in 1412 as affiliated with the Halvetî order and endowed for the mufti Sheikh Gümüşlüzâde Abdurrahman Çelebi (d. 1497-98). The sheikhship of the lodge afterwards passed from hand to hand in a line that the people of Amasya called the "silsiletü'z-zeheb" (chain of gold); the first links of this chain are Pîr Abdurrahman Çelebi, the son-in-law of Gümüşlüzâde Abdurrahman Çelebi, and Pîr Şemseddin Mehmed Buhârî. The name "Gümüşlüzâde Pîr Abdurrahman Çelebi" that Hüsameddin gives for İsmâil Çelebi's teacher reads like an expression joining the names of these two Abdurrahman Çelebis. Which one is meant cannot be understood from the text; no other source was found on from whom İsmâil Çelebi received his caliphate. The building of the lodge stands in Amasya today.
Prince Sultan Ahmed and Amasya
The Prince Ahmed in the text is the son of Bayezid II. Born in Amasya around 1466, he became governor of Amasya and was regarded as the prince closest to his father's throne. In the struggle for the throne he entered with his brother Selim he was defeated at Yenişehir in 1513, caught and executed. Bayezid's twenty-six-year governorship at Amasya ended with his accession in 1481; Ahmed's governorship belongs to the years after that date. Hüsameddin's saying "became extraordinarily famous" describes İsmâil Çelebi as having gained renown in this prince's time, that is, in the age extending from the 1480s to 1512.
Family and Sons
The text gives İsmâil Çelebi's lineage in detail. That his son Yamak Şeyh Mehmed Efendi went to Istanbul in 958 points to this branch of the family having moved to the capital. Among the grandsons Abdülâli Çelebizâde Ya'kub Çelebi is mentioned as a calligrapher; in searches about this person and Şükrullah Efendi no information was found in another source.
What Could Not Be Verified
No record other than Hüsameddin's was found about the teacher from whom İsmâil Çelebi received the caliphate, his date of death and his sons. The dates of the journey to the Hejaz and the move to Istanbul rest only on his record.
Bibliography
Primary sources
- Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 7, p. 302. amasya.bel.tr
Academic studies
Other sources