Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL
Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 7, p. 313 • Edited by: Prof. Dr. Safi ARPAGUŞ- Prof. Dr. Ahmet Hakkı TURABİ
Köprülüdür. Mustafa oğludur. Amasya‘da kibâr-ı ulemâdan İnallı el-Hâc Mehmed Efendi’den ikmâl-i tahsîl-i ulûm edib Köprü’ye avdetle ders-i âm oldu. Vaaz ve tedrîs ile fevkalâde iştihâr etdi.
1141’de Bostancıbaşı Köprülü Süleyman Ağa’nın Köprü’de Taceddîn Paşa Câmii harîminde binâ eylediği Medrese-i Süleymaniye’nin ilk müderrisi, ba’dehû Köprü Müftüsü oldu. 1149’da Köprü fetvâsından ma’zûl olup 1151’de vefât etdi. Âlim, kâmil, Taceddîn Paşa Câmii vâizi idi.
He was a native of Köprü, the son of Mustafa. He completed his studies in Amasya under one of the great scholars, İnallı Hacı Mehmed Efendi, returned to Köprü and became a ders-i âm (a müderris authorized to give public lessons). He gained great renown through preaching and teaching.
In 1141 [1728-29] he became the first müderris of the Süleymaniye Madrasa, which Bostancıbaşı Köprülü Süleyman Ağa had built in Köprü in the precinct of the Taceddin Pasha Mosque, and afterwards mufti of Köprü. He was dismissed from the Köprü fetva office in 1149 [1736-37] and died in 1151 [1738-39]. He was a scholar, a mature man and the preacher of the Taceddin Pasha Mosque.
"Köprü" is today's Vezirköprü in the province of Samsun. The district takes its name from Köprülü Mehmed Pasha, the grand vizier of the seventeenth century, and Ottoman-period buildings such as the Taşhan, the Taşmedrese and the Kale Mosque are linked to that era. The Taşmedrese stands in the Fazıl Ahmed Paşa quarter and, according to the official record, was built in 1662 by Fazıl Ahmed Pasha; it has served as a public library since 1964 and was restored with local means in 2002-2003. This is not the Süleymaniye Madrasa that Hüsameddin mentions; the madrasa in the text is described as built in 1141 by Bostancıbaşı Köprülü Süleyman Ağa.
No information was found in the sources read on the Taceddin Pasha Mosque that Hüsameddin mentions, on the Süleymaniye Madrasa said to have been built in its precinct, or on Bostancıbaşı Köprülü Süleyman Ağa, who built it. What the building is called or where it stands today could not be verified. One may wonder whether the mosque's name is connected with Taceddin Bey, founder of the Taceddinoğulları principality that ruled the Canik and Niksar region in the fourteenth century; no such link is written in the sources read, and this is only a conjecture. No information was found on İnallı Hacı Mehmed Efendi or on the müderris İsmâil Efendi himself.
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