AMASYA 05

Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL

İsmâil Efendi (Müderris Abdîzâde)

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 7, p. 302 • Edited by: Prof. Dr. Safi ARPAGUŞ- Prof. Dr. Ahmet Hakkı TURABİ

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Amasyalıdır. Fuzalâdan Müderris Abdî Çelebi evlâdından Abdülkerîm Çelebi bin Ali Çelebi bin Müderris Abdî Çelebi mahdûmudur. Hakâlaı es-Seyyid Muhyiddîn Mehmed Çelebi hizmetinde ikmâl-i tahsîl edib ders-i âm, müderris, kadı oldu. 991 hudûdunda vefât etdi. Kibâr-ı kudâtdan idi. Mahdûmu Mehmed Efendi’dir.

Our Research Article Editor: Mevlüt Erdem Öztürk

In Modern English

He was from Amasya. He was the son of Abdülkerîm Çelebi son of Ali Çelebi son of Müderris Abdî Çelebi, of the line of Müderris Abdî Çelebi, one of the learned men. After completing his studies in the service of Hakâlâlı es-Seyyid Muhyiddîn Mehmed Çelebi, he became ders-i âm, müderris and kadı. He died around 991 [1583]. He was one of the great kadıs. His son is Mehmed Efendi.

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • fuzalâ: the learned, men of knowledge
  • evlâd: children, lineage
  • mahdûm: son
  • hizmetinde ikmâl-i tahsîl: completing one's studies by serving beside a teacher
  • ders-i âm: authority to give general lessons
  • kibâr-ı kudât: the great kadıs
  • hudûd: boundary; "991 hudûdunda" means around 991

The Name Abdîzâde

The "Abdîzâde" in the entry title means "of the line of Abdî". This name is the same as the epithet of the work's author, Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn. Hüsameddin does not say outright in this entry that there is a relationship with his own family; but the shared name suggests that the author may have come from this line. Since no definite link is stated in this text and no additional source could be found, this is only a possibility. In the text Abdî is called "a müderris among the learned"; that is, a teacher whose name was still remembered with respect several generations later. In the following century too a müderris named Abdi is seen in Amasya: in 1622 the müderrisship of the madrasa set up in the mosque of the Yâkub Pasha Lodge was given to Sheikh Abdi Efendi. This person's lineage is not known.

The Hakâlâ Attribution

The "Hakâlâ" added to the teacher's name is a settlement in the Amasya countryside. In Amasya's waqf records the name Hakala occurs among the villages where zâviyes stood. This suggests that the attribution points to a settlement around Amasya. A link between a village of the same name and the person Hüsameddin mentions has not been directly established in the sources. A scholar named Hatibzâde Muhyiddin Mehmed, who grew up in Amasya and taught Prince Ahmed, is known (1460-1534); there is no information that the teacher Hüsameddin mentions is the same person as he.

Müderris, Ders-i Âm and the Office of Kadı

Müderris is the highest-ranking teacher in the madrasas. These teachers also took on duties such as kadı and mufti; so it is usual that Hüsameddin should say "ders-i âm, müderris, kadı" for the same person. It has been established that Amasya had more than forty madrasas, and the city is counted among Anatolia's important centres of learning. The chain of müderrises and kadıs that Hüsameddin lists, running from Abdî Çelebi to Abdülkerîm Çelebi, fits this setting.

The Approximate Date

Hüsameddin gives the date of death not as an exact year but as "in the vicinity of 991", that is, around 991; this year corresponds to 1583. No other record was found for the exact date.

What Could Not Be Verified

In searches about Müderris Abdî Çelebi, Ali Çelebi, Abdülkerîm Çelebi, his teacher Muhyiddîn Mehmed Çelebi and his son Mehmed Efendi, no information was found in another source. The madrasas where he served as müderris and the places of his kadı posts are not known.

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