Eyyüplü Nûh Efendi'nin oğludur. Vüzerâdandır. 1160 muharremi gurresinde Amasya mutasarrıfı olup Îrân harbi ile meşgûl olduğundan a'yândan harem kethüdâsı Hacı Süleymân Ağa Amasya mütesellimi ve intihâbda Rahtuvân Paşazâde Hacı Ahmed Bey baş a'yân, Fazlıoğlu Hacı Hâfız Mustafâ Efendi hacıbaşı oldu.
Saferde mîrlivâ Hacı Osmân Bey'e Elbasan sancağı verildi. Îrân seferleri uzadığından bir i'ânât-ı harbiyye meclisi kurulup a'yân ve hâcıyândan üçer zât a'zâ, müftü Hacı Ömer Efendi re'îs, mütesellim Hacı Süleymân Ağa nâzır, Murtazâ Paşa kethüdâsı Mehmed Ağa da toplanan zahîre ve i'âneleri alıp paşaya götürmeğe me'mûr olmuşdu.
Nakid ve zahire gibi halkdan toplanan i'âneleri Fazlıoğlu Hacı Mustafâ ve Alî Efendiler müftü efendiden ahz ve tesellüm ederek kethüdâ [77] Mehmed Ağa'ya teslîm etmek üzere Samsun anbâr me'mûruna gönderildiği esnâda yarı yarıya i'ânelerden ihtilâs edildiği anbar emîninin gönderdiği musaddak defterden anlaşıldı.
Mütesellim Hacı Süleymân Ağa ile Paşa'nın ağası isticvâb edildi. Mütesellim re'îsden sorulmasını beyân ve ahz ve teslîme me'mûr, Fazlıoğulları da re'îsden noksân aldıklarını ve re'îs olan müftü de bilâ-noksân teslîm etdiğini meclis huzûrunda defter ibrâz ederek dermiyân etdi. Mütesellim, Fazlıoğulları'na mu'în olduğundan bîçâre müftü yalnız kaldı.
Meclis a'zâsı vilâyete ve bâb-ı âlîye takdîm etdikleri mahzar üzerine müftü Hacı Ömer Efendi cemâziyelevvelin on üçüncü günü azl ile Ziyâre'de ikâmete me'mûr olup Şeyh Mustafâ Efendi yine Amasya müftüsü oldu.
In Modern English
He was the son of Nuh Efendi of Eyüp. He was one of the viziers. On the first day of Muharrem 1160 [1747] he became mutasarrıf of Amasya. Since he was occupied with the war in Iran, Hacı Süleyman Ağa, harem kethüda and one of the notables, became mütesellim of Amasya; in the election held, Rahtuvan Paşazade Hacı Ahmed Bey was elected chief notable and Fazlıoğlu Hacı Hafız Mustafa Efendi hacıbaşı.
In Safer the sanjak of Elbasan was given to the sanjak bey Hacı Osman Bey. Because the campaigns in Iran dragged on, a war-aid council was set up. Three each of the notables and of the pilgrims were members of this council, the mufti Hacı Ömer Efendi was its chairman, and the mütesellim Hacı Süleyman Ağa was its supervisor. Murtaza Pasha's kethüda, Mehmed Ağa, was charged with taking the collected provisions and aid and bringing them to the pasha.
The aid collected from the people, such as money and provisions, was received from the mufti by Fazlıoğlu Hacı Mustafa and Ali Efendi, who sent it to the depot official at Samsun to be handed over to the kethüda Mehmed Ağa. At this time, from the certified register sent by the depot emin, it was understood that the aid had been embezzled by half.
The mütesellim Hacı Süleyman Ağa and the pasha's ağa were questioned. The mütesellim said that this should be asked of the chairman. The Fazlıoğulları, who were charged with receiving and delivering the goods, also claimed that they had received less from the chairman. The mufti, who was the chairman, showed his register before the council and explained that he had delivered everything in full. Since the mütesellim backed the Fazlıoğulları, the poor mufti was left alone.
On a collective complaint petition submitted by the council members to the province and to the Sublime Porte, the mufti Hacı Ömer Efendi was dismissed on the thirteenth day of Cemaziyelevvel and ordered to reside in Ziyare; Şeyh Mustafa Efendi became mufti of Amasya again.
Notes and Research
Old Words in the Text
- vüzerâ: viziers
- harem kethüdâsı: the steward who ran the inner affairs in a pasha's mansion
- intihâb: election
- hacıbaşı: the representative chosen from among the pilgrims in Amasya
- i'ânât-ı harbiyye: aid collected for the war
- hâcıyân: pilgrims
- a'zâ: members
- nâzır: overseer, supervisor
- nakid: cash
- ahz ve tesellüm: taking and receiving
- anbar emîni: the official in charge of a state depot
- ihtilâs: embezzlement, misappropriation
- musaddak: certified, attested
- isticvâb: interrogation
- dermiyân etmek: to put forward, to relate
- mu'în: helper, one who backs
- mahzar: a collective petition submitted with the signatures of many persons
- bâb-ı âlî: the office of the grand vizierate, the Sublime Porte
Mobilization Continuing After the Treaty
Hüsameddin writes that Murtaza Pasha, in Muharrem 1160, that is, January 1747, could not come to his sanjak because he was "occupied with the war in Iran," and that a war-aid council was set up in Amasya "because the campaigns in Iran dragged on." Yet the last war between Nâdir Shah and the Ottoman state had formally ended with the Treaty of Kerden dated 17 Şaban 1159 (4 September 1746). Nâdir Shah himself was killed in his tent by his own commanders on 20 June 1747. Hüsameddin's record suggests that even months after the treaty the army on the eastern border had not been disbanded and aid continued to be collected from the provinces; this is an inference. That at a consultative meeting held in Istanbul after Nâdir Shah's death it was decided to warn the pashas and officers on the frontiers to remain faithful to the peace also shows that a considerable military presence was still at the front. No information was found in other sources about Murtaza Pasha.
How War Aid Was Collected
From the end of the seventeenth century the Ottoman state had begun collecting extraordinary aid under the name "imdâdiyye" to meet the burden of long wars. As Ahmet Tabakoğlu explains, this aid, which in the first applications was called "imdâd-ı seferiyye" and had a temporary character, from the eighteenth century was divided into "imdâd-ı seferiyye" and "imdâd-ı hazariyye," became regular taxes, and entered among the revenues of high-ranking provincial administrators such as beylerbeyis and sanjak beys. The portions of the sanjak of Amasya falling to the mutasarrıfs appear in a record of 1772 as three thousand kuruş for imdâd-ı hazariyye and sixteen and a half purses for imdâd-ı seferiyye.
The council Hüsameddin describes is a valuable example showing how this burden was apportioned and collected within the city. Representatives of the notables and the pilgrims took part in the council, the mufti, the city's religious and legal authority, was brought to the chairmanship, and the mütesellim served as supervisor. The money and provisions collected were sent to a depot at Samsun on the Black Sea coast, to be delivered to the mutasarrıf's kethüda. The embezzlement also came to light through the certified register kept by the depot emin at the last link of this chain.
The First Act of an Investigation
What is related in this entry is only the first stage of a case that would last long. When it was understood that goods had reached the depot short, blame was thrown onto someone else at each link of the chain of delivery; the mütesellim pointed to the chairman, and the Fazlıoğulları, who carried the goods, again pointed to the chairman. Hüsameddin's sentence "since the mütesellim backed the Fazlıoğulları, the poor mufti was left alone" plainly shows that the author is of the opinion that the mufti was wronged in this affair. The Fazlıoğulları appear before us in the earlier entries too as an influential Amasya family that had taken over offices such as the court clerkship and the city kethüdaship. In the next entry it will be related that, although the Fazlıoğulları' responsibility was understood in the first investigation, in the end the compensation was imposed on the mufti, and two entries later that the missing goods in fact remained in the embezzlement of the depot official at Samsun and the pasha's kethüda, and the mufti was cleared.
Ziyare, where the dismissed mufti was made to reside, is his own home place. This settlement, founded at the foot of a mountain descending from Akdağ toward the Yeşilırmak northeast of Amasya, was in the mid-nineteenth century a large village of 254 households attached to the Akdağ nahiye and is called Ziyaret today. Hüsameddin records that it was an old fortress and town and that its older name was "Zemendu" or "Semendu." No information was found in other sources about the harem kethüda Hacı Süleyman Ağa and the kethüda Mehmed Ağa, named in the entry.
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