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Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL

İsmâil Efendi, Hacıköylüzâde Hacı

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 7, p. 316 • Edited by: Prof. Dr. Safi ARPAGUŞ- Prof. Dr. Ahmet Hakkı TURABİ

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Amasya ulemâsından Hacıköylü el-Hâc Halil Efendi’nin mahdûmudur. Ulemâdan Müftüzâde şeyhül-imâre el-Hâc Mehmed Efendi’nin şâkirdân-ı irfânından olup ders-i âm oldu. Hayli müddet tedrîs-i ulûm edib Fethiye Câmii kürsü şeyhi olduğu halde 1191 senesi cumâdelâhiresinin yirmisinde vefât etdi. Âlim, fakîh, vâiz bir zât idi.

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In Modern English

He is the son of Hacı Halil Efendi of Hacıköy, one of the scholars of Amasya. He was a pupil of Müftüzâde Hacı Mehmed Efendi, the şeyhülimâre among the scholars, and became a teacher giving lessons open to all. After teaching the sciences for a considerable time, he died, while kürsü şeyhi of the Fethiye Mosque, on the twentieth of Cemâziyelâhir 1191 [1777-78]. He was a scholar, a jurist and a preacher.

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • ulemâ: scholars
  • şâkirdân-ı irfân: pupils of learning, students
  • ders-i âm: a scholar authorized to give lessons open to all
  • tedrîs-i ulûm: teaching the sciences
  • kürsü şeyhi: the official who taught and preached from the lectern in a mosque
  • fakîh: jurist, expert in fıkıh
  • vâiz: preacher

Hacıköy and the Hacıköylü Name

The name "Hacıköylü" may point to Hacıköy, one of the two settlements that make up today's Gümüşhacıköy district; the text does not say so explicitly. Surface surveys have shown that Hacıköy was continuously settled from antiquity to Late Antiquity and that in the Roman period, under the name Diakopene, it served as the town of a rich agricultural region.

The Fethiye Mosque

The Fethiye Mosque, where İsmâil Efendi held the lectern, is one of the old buildings of Amasya that survive today. It was converted from a Byzantine church; the church is believed to have been built in the 7th century on the order of Helena, daughter of the Byzantine emperor Phocas, and it is reported that in the Danishmend period the governor of Amasya, Fetih Gazi, turned it into a mosque, hence the name Fethiye. It originally had no minaret; Incezâde Hacı Mehmed added one in 1883. The mosque was repaired and reopened in 1956 and last restored in 2006 by the General Directorate of Foundations. Little of the church's original structure survives and the walls have been plastered and painted white, so the features of the church period could not be identified.

No information was found in other sources on Müftüzâde Hacı Mehmed Efendi or on Hacı Halil Efendi of Hacıköy. İsmâil Efendi's lectern post could not be confirmed by another record either.

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