Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL
Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 7, p. 299 • Edited by: Prof. Dr. Safi ARPAGUŞ- Prof. Dr. Ahmet Hakkı TURABİ
Malatyalıdır. Malatya Kadısı Şemseddîn Ahmed bin Ebî Sa’id Abdulmecid bin İsmâil bin Mehmed el-Herevî mahdûmudur. [116] Ceddi kâdı’l-kudât-ı bilâd-ı Rûm olan Mevlânâ Mecdeddîn Ebu Sa’id Abdülmecid el-Herevî olup Fukahâ-yı Hanefiyye’den Fahrü’l-İslâm Ebu’l-Hasan Ali bin Muhammed el-Pezdevî tilmîzidir.
Amasya Hükümdârı Sultân Gıyaseddîn Mehmed Şâh devrinde Amasya’ya gelip Medrese-i Mesûdiyye müderrisi, ba’dehû Amasya kâdı’l-kudâtı oldu. 603 senesi ramazânında vefât etdi. Kibâr-ı ulemâdan idi.
He was from Malatya. He was the son of Şemseddîn Ahmed son of Ebî Sa'îd Abdülmecîd son of İsmâil son of Mehmed el-Herevî, judge of Malatya. His grandfather was Mevlânâ Mecdeddîn Ebû Sa'îd Abdülmecîd el-Herevî, chief judge of the cities of Anatolia, a pupil of the Hanafi jurist Fahrü'l-İslâm Ebü'l-Hasan Ali son of Muhammed el-Pezdevî.
In the time of Sultan Gıyâseddîn Mehmed Şah, ruler of Amasya, he came to Amasya and became müderris of the Mes'ûdiyye Madrasa and afterwards chief judge of Amasya. He died in Ramadan of the year 603 [1207]. He was one of the great scholars.
The grandfather named in the text, Abdülmecîd el-Herevî, is also a name mentioned in Danishmendid history. The Danishmendid ruler Melik Muhammed (1134-1143) worked for the spread of Islam in Anatolia by inviting religious scholars from various countries, and the foremost of these scholars was Abdülmecîd b. İsmâil el-Herevî. Melik Muhammed is known as a devout and charitable ruler; he had the Great Mosque of Kayseri built. This information agrees with the title "chief judge of Rum" that Hüsameddin gives. In that case the family must descend from scholars who came to Anatolia in the middle of the twelfth century at the invitation of the Danishmendid court. This interpretation rests on the agreement of the two records; the Herevî family tree could not be tested against another source.
Fahrü'l-İslâm el-Pezdevî, named as the grandfather's teacher, is the author of one of the best-known books of Hanafi legal methodology. He was born around 1010 in the fortress of Pezde near Nesef, carried on his scholarly work in Samarkand and died on 482 (13 September 1089). In the sevenfold ranking made by Hanafi scholars he is counted in the third rank, among the scholars able to exercise independent judgment on particular questions. His books were taught as textbooks for centuries. That the grandfather was his pupil suggests that a Hanafi education of Central Asian origin was being carried to Anatolia.
The text shows İsmâil Kadı, grandson of Mecdeddîn, as having come to Amasya in the time of "Sultan Gıyâseddîn Mehmed Şah, ruler of Amasya." If İsmâil's death date is 603 (1207), it does not seem possible that he came to Amasya in the time of Muhammed Tapar (Great Seljuk sultan, 1105-1118). His grandfather, for his part, was among the scholars invited to Anatolia during Melik Muhammed's reign of 1134-1143. No ruler of Amasya known as "Mehmed Şah" was found in the sources. Hüsameddin either meant another ruler or reported the name wrongly; which of the two could not be determined.
No information on the Mes'ûdiyye Madrasa was found in the sources read. Its name may be tied to a Mes'ud; there is a tomb in Amasya said to belong to Sultan Mes'ud, but this link is a supposition. Under the Seljuks Amasya received the title "Dârü'l-izz" and became an important center of learning; the Halifet Gazi Madrasa in the city was built in 606 (1209-10).
An example showing that the chief judge was not confined to judicial matters is known from the days after the defeat at Kösedağ in 1243: the vizier of Amasya, Mühezzebüddin Ali, went with the city's judge to the camp of the Mongol commander Baycu Noyan and made peace in return for 360,000 dirhams, 10,000 sheep, and 1,000 cattle and camels a year. İsmâil Kadı died about thirty-six years before this event; even so, the example shows that the judges of Amasya also had a say in the city's administrative and political affairs.
No information was found in other sources on İsmâil Kadı, his father the judge of Malatya Şemseddîn Ahmed, or their activities in Amasya. The location of the Mes'ûdiyye Madrasa could not be determined either. The death date of 603 rests on Hüsameddin's record.
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