Amasyalıdır. İbâd Çelebizâde Yamak Şeyh Mehmed Efendi bin eş-Şeyh İsmâil Kemaleddîn Efendi bin İbâdullah Çelebi [126] mahdûmudur. Amasya‘da tahsîl-i ilim ve ma’rifet edib 958’de pederiyle beraber İstanbul’a gitdi. Merkez Efendi Tekkesi’nde ikâmet ve tekkenin şeyhi es-Seyyid Musliheddîn Efendi’ye irâdet edib 961’de müşârün-ileyhe dâmâd ve 984’de Mimâr Acem Ali Tekkesi şeyhi olduğu halde 1000 hudûdunda vefât etdi.
Âlim, sâlih, vâiz, şâir bir zât idi. Mahdûmu es-Seyyid Mehmed Efendi meşâyihdendir. Bunun evlâdından es-Seyyid Ahmed Vecdi Efendi 1141’de ve bunun mahdûmu es-Seyyid Mehmed Emîn Efendi 1170’de tekke şeyhi oldukları halde vefât etdiler. Diğer mahdûmu es-Seyyid İsmâil Efendi bin es-Seyyid Ahmed Vecdi Efendi ve ba’dehû es-Seyyid Abdulhay Efendi bin es-Seyyid Mehmed Emîn Efendi şeyh oldular.
In Modern English
He was from Amasya. He was the son of İbâd Çelebizâde Yamak Şeyh Mehmed Efendi; Mehmed Efendi was the son of Sheikh İsmâil Kemâleddîn Efendi, who in turn was the son of İbâdullah Çelebi. He studied and gained learning in Amasya, and in 958 [1551] he went to Istanbul with his father. He stayed at the Merkez Efendi Tekke, attached himself as a disciple to the sheikh of the tekke, Seyyid Musliheddîn Efendi, and in 961 [1553-54] became his son-in-law. He died around 1000 [1591-92], having become sheikh of the Mimâr Acem Ali Tekke in 984 [1576-77].
He was a scholar, a devout man, a preacher and a poet. His son Seyyid Mehmed Efendi was among the sheikhs. Of his descendants, Seyyid Ahmed Vecdî Efendi died in 1141 [1728-29] and Ahmed Vecdî's son Seyyid Mehmed Emîn Efendi died in 1170 [1756-57], both while serving as sheikh of the tekke. Ahmed Vecdî Efendi's other son Seyyid İsmâil Efendi, and after him Seyyid Abdulhay Efendi, son of Seyyid Mehmed Emîn Efendi, became sheikhs.
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Old Words in the Text
- mahdûm: son
- tahsîl-i ilim ve ma'rifet: acquiring learning and knowledge
- irâdet etmek: to attach oneself to a sheikh as a disciple
- müşârün-ileyh: the person mentioned
- dâmâd: son-in-law
- hudûdunda: around, in the vicinity of (a date)
- meşâyih: sheikhs
- evlâd: children, descendants
- es-Seyyid: title given to descendants of the Prophet
İsmâil Efendi in the Heading and His Family
The entry is headed İsmâil Efendi. The text introduces him as the son of Mehmed Efendi, known in Amasya as "Yamak Şeyh". Hüsameddin gives the same family's grandfather in a separate entry (İsmâil Çelebi-eş-Şeyh Kemaleddîn). According to that entry, İsmâil Kemâleddîn Çelebi was the son of İbâdullah Çelebi, who had a mosque in Amasya. He learned the religious sciences and Sufi knowledge in the service of Sheikh Gümüşlüzâde Pîr Abdurrahman Çelebi and received a certificate of succession from him, then became sheikh of the Selâmet Hâtun Tekke, gained great fame during Prince Ahmed's time in Amasya, and died around 930 [1523-24]. Hüsameddin describes him as a scholar, a man of spiritual maturity, of Halveti inclination, a preacher and a pious person. His sons were Mehmed and Mustafa Çelebi. Mehmed Efendi, known as "Yamak Şeyh", went to Istanbul in 958; his sons were İsmâil, Abdülâli and Yahya Efendi. Abdülâli's son Ya'kub Çelebi was a famous calligrapher, and Yahya's son Seyyid Şükrullah Efendi was among the judges.
Elsewhere in the book the name "Yamak Şeyh" appears twice more, and the details do not fit together exactly. In the section of the first volume on the Mehmed Paşa Tekke, that tekke is said to have been built in 890 [1485] for the Halveti sheikh Habîb-i Karamânî. After the sheikh, his successor İmâmzâde Seydî Halîfe, then Habîb-i Karamânîzâde Sheikh Hasan, and then his son "Yamak Şeyh" Mehmed Efendi headed the tekke; Mehmed Efendi's departure for Istanbul is given here as 961, and his brother Ömer Efendi takes his place. In the third volume, in the account of Prince Mustafa's time, the preacher of the Sultan Bayezid Mosque is named as "İbâd Çelebizâde Muhyiddîn Mehmed Çelebi, famous as Yamak Şeyh". So within the book the dates 958 and 961 for the journey to Istanbul, and the forms Mehmed and Muhyiddîn Mehmed for the name, stand side by side. No other source was found that could resolve these differences.
The Merkez Efendi Tekke and Seyyid Musliheddîn
Merkez Efendi of Istanbul, whose real name was Mûsâ and who is thought to have been born around 868 [1463-64] in the village of Sarı Mahmudlu near Denizli, was a Halveti-Sünbüli sheikh also known by the epithet "Merkez Muslihuddin". He came to Istanbul from Manisa on the death of Sünbül Sinan Efendi in 936 [1529]. A link with Amasya is drawn through this epithet: according to some accounts, as a young man Merkez Efendi went to Amasya in order to enter the Sufi path and wished to become a disciple of the Halveti sheikh Habîb-i Karamânî; the sheikh said that his spiritual training would be done by another's hand, turned down his wish, and gave him the name "Muslihuddin". The sources for this tradition differ among themselves between Karaman and Amasya. Habîb-i Karamânî's tekke in Amasya is the Mehmed Paşa Tekke mentioned above.
Merkez Efendi appointed his son-in-law Seyyid Muslihuddin as sheikh of the tekke he had built outside Yenikapı. It is plausible that the "Seyyid Musliheddîn Efendi" to whom İsmâil Efendi attached himself and whose son-in-law he later became is this person; but the sources read do not explicitly match the name Hüsameddin gives with this tekke's sheikh, so the identification could not be verified.
The Sünbüli Order, Amasya and the Mimâr Acem Tekke
The Sünbüliyye is the branch of the Halvetiyye that arose from Sünbül Sinan Efendi (d. 936). The Merkez Efendi Tekke is counted among the most important centers of this branch in Istanbul. It is also noted that in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the same branch was active in cities such as Kütahya, Amasya, Manisa and Kastamonu. Hasan Dede (d. 1020 [1611]), who represented the branch in Amasya, received his certificate from Necmeddin Hasan Efendi, head of the Âsitâne, served as Friday preacher at the Beyazıt Mosque, and taught tafsir, hadith, Arabic and Persian; after him Kadızâde Mehmed Çelebi carried the path on in Amasya. Mimâr Acem, together with the Ferruh Kethüdâ tekke, is named as one of the Sünbüli tekkes in which influential families of sheikhs formed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The line of sheikhs that Hüsameddin carries from İsmâil Efendi down to the years 1141 and 1170 resembles a typical example of such families; but no separate record was found on the founding of the Mimâr Acem Ali Tekke, on İsmâil Efendi's appointment there in 984, or on the sheikhships of his descendants.
Bibliography
Primary sources
- Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 7, pp. 302–303. amasya.bel.tr
- Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, vol. 7, p. 302 (entry İsmâil Çelebi-eş-Şeyh Kemaleddîn); vol. 1, pp. 148–155 (Mukaddime, Mehmed Paşa Tekke); vol. 3, pp. 504–508 (Sultân Mustafa).
Academic studies