Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL
Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 7, p. 324 • Edited by: Prof. Dr. Safi ARPAGUŞ- Prof. Dr. Ahmet Hakkı TURABİ
Amasya Mahkemesi başkâtibi es-Seyyid Feyzullah Efendi bin el-Hâc İsmâil [198] Efendi’nin mahdûmudur. Ulemâdan bir müddet okudu. Tahsîl-i ilim ve ma’rifet edib iltizâm işleriyle iştigâl etdi. Bir müddet de mahkeme başkâtibi olup Meclis-i a’yân a’zâlığında bulundu.
Fakat Yeniçeri vak’alarında tarafdârlığı görüldüğünden azledilip 1243’de meclis a’zâsı olduğu halde 1244 senesi evâilinde vefât etdi. Kâtib, sâhib-i nüfûz ve servet bir kimse idi.
He is the son of Seyyid Feyzullah Efendi, chief clerk of the Amasya court, who was himself the son of Hacı İsmâil Efendi. For a time he studied with the scholars. After acquiring learning and knowledge he engaged in tax-farming (iltizam). For a time he also served as chief clerk of the court and sat as a member of the Council of Notables.
But because he was seen to side with the Janissaries in their disturbances, he was dismissed; though a council member in 1243 [1827-28], he died in the early part of 1244 [1828]. He was a skilled clerk, a man of influence and wealth.
Hüsameddin attributes İsmâil Efendi's dismissal to his being seen as a partisan in "the Janissary affairs" but does not say which event he means. The Janissary Corps was abolished on 17 June 1826, and the event is generally called the "Auspicious Incident" (vak'a-i hayriyye) in the sources. The same decree announced that a new army, the Asâkir-i Mansûre-i Muhammediye, would be formed in its place. That İsmâil Efendi is still described as a council member in 1243 [1827-28] shows that the dismissal came before that date; the events of 1826 therefore come to mind, but since the text does not say so, the link is an inference and not certain.
No information was found in other sources about the Council of Notables in Amasya or about İsmâil Efendi's relations with the Janissaries.
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