Bosnalıdır. “Memi Çelebioğlu” demekle meşhûrdur. 1054 senesi saferinin on üçüncü günü Amasya sancağı beyi olup kendisi harbe me’mûr olduğundan kethüdâyeri Gazanfer Ağa Amasya mütesellimi oldu.
Saferin on sekizinde Hoca Ahmed Paşa yine evkâf-ı Sultâniyye mütevellisi olup geldi. Bu esnada Amasya a‘yânından Hacı Paşazâde Hüseyin Bey Divriği sancağı beyi olup gitmişdi.
Rebîülevvelde Kara Mustafa Paşa müntesiblerinden Mısır Vâlisi Maksut Paşa azl u katl olunup yerine Nişancı Amasyalı Vezîr Eyüb Paşa da dîvân efendisi ve Mısır muhassılı olarak Mısır’a gönderildi.
Rebîülâhirde kibâr-ı ulemâdan Gümüşlü Câmii kürsü şeyhi ve Fatımiye Müderrisi Zileli Muharrem Efendizâde Abdurraûf Efendi vefât edib mahdûmu Ders-i âm Ahmed Efendi yerine kürsü şeyhi ve müderris oldu. [90]
Cumâdelûlânın üçüncü günü “sâbıkan Amasya sancağı mutasarrıfı Köprülü Mehmed Paşa’nın sulbî oğlu Mustafa Bey’e Tokat madenhânesinden yevmî seksen akçe vefât eden Hüseyin Bey mahlûlünden tevcîh edilmek”⁶⁴⁶ üzere emr-i âlî sâdır oldu.
Şa’bânda Amasya Beyi Muslî Bey terfî edildiğinden Amasya sancağı mîrâhûr-ı sânî Ahmed Ağa’ya tevcîh edilerek İstanbul’dan uzaklaşdırıldı.
In Modern English
He was a native of Bosnia. He is known as "Memi Çelebioğlu". On the thirteenth day of Safer 1054 [1644] he became bey of the sanjak of Amasya. Since he himself had been assigned to the war, the kethüdâyeri (local kethüda of the sipahis) Gazanfer Ağa became mütesellim (deputy governor) of Amasya.
On the eighteenth of Safer, Hoca Ahmed Pasha again came as mütevelli of the Sultanic waqfs. At this time Hacı Paşazâde Hüseyin Bey, one of the notables of Amasya, had gone as bey of the sanjak of Divriği.
In the month of Rebîülevvel, Maksud Pasha, Governor of Egypt, one of the men of Kara Mustafa Pasha, was dismissed and killed. In his place the Nişancı, Vezir Eyüb Pasha of Amasya, was sent to Egypt as divan efendisi and muhassıl of Egypt (the administrator who collected the province's revenues).
In the month of Rebîülâhir, one of the great scholars, Abdurraûf Efendi, son of Muharrem Efendi of Zile, kürsü şeyhi of the Gümüşlü Mosque and müderris of the Fâtımiye Madrasa, died. His son, the ders-i âm (madrasa professor giving general lectures in the mosque) Ahmed Efendi, became kürsü şeyhi and müderris in his place.
On the third day of Cemaziyelevvel an imperial order was issued "that eighty akçe a day be given to Mustafa Bey, the own son of Köprülü Mehmed Pasha, former mutasarrıf of the sanjak of Amasya, from the Tokat mint, the post having fallen vacant on the death of Hüseyin Bey." This wording was seen exactly so in the list of telhises (summary reports that the grand vizier presented to the sultan) found in the Evkaf treasury; Hüseyin Bey is the elder son of Köprülü Mehmed Pasha.
In the month of Şaban, since Muslî Bey, Bey of Amasya, was promoted, the sanjak of Amasya was given to the second mirahur Ahmed Ağa, who was thereby removed from Istanbul.
Notes and Research
Old Words in the Text
- harbe me'mûr olmak: to be assigned to the war
- azl u katl: dismissal and killing
- muhassıl: the administrator who collects the taxes and revenues of a province
- kibâr-ı ulemâ: the great scholars
- sulbî oğul: own son
- madenhâne: mint, the place where coins are struck
- yevmî: daily
- mahlûl: an office or revenue left vacant by its holder's death or departure
- emr-i âlî: imperial order
- mîrâhûr-ı sânî: second master of the palace stables
Muslî Bey
Hüsameddin mentions Muslî Bey only as an alaybeyi from Bosnia known as "Memi Çelebioğlu". During his beylik of about six months he evidently never came to Amasya, and the sanjak was governed by the kethüdâyeri Gazanfer Ağa. No information on this person was found in other sources.
The Change in Egypt
After the execution of Kemankeş Kara Mustafa Pasha in January 1644, the dismissal of his men one by one showed itself in Egypt too. The lists of Ottoman governors of Egypt record that Maksud Pasha was governor in 1642-1644, that he had earlier been governor of Diyarbekir, and that after being overthrown by the soldiers he was executed by order of Sultan İbrahim. Eyüp Pasha, who came in his place, served as governor between 1644 and 1646, restored order, and after his term ended left all his property and became a dervish. That the man Hüsameddin calls "the Nişancı, Vezir Eyüb Pasha of Amasya" was this governor can be understood from the agreement of the dates and the sequence of events. That Eyüb Pasha was from Amasya, however, rests only on Hüsameddin.
The Gümüşlü Mosque and the Fâtımiye Madrasa
The Gümüşlü Mosque, where Abdurraûf Efendi was kürsü şeyhi, still stands today on a small rise overlooking Yavuz Selim Square, opposite the Hükümet Bridge. The building was first built in 1326 by Taceddin Mahmud Çelebi; when the first, timber-roofed building was destroyed in the earthquake of 1419, it was rebuilt in 1491 by Defterdar Mahmut Bey. It was badly damaged in the fire of 1612 and Şemseddin Pasha had it repaired. Culture and tourism records say that the mosque took its present name from Gümüşlüzâde İbrahim Bey, who had it repaired in 1688. Yet in narrating the events of 1644 Hüsameddin already calls the building "Gümüşlü Câmii", and the name of the same family, traced back to the lineage of Pîr İlyâs, occurs from the fifteenth century on. Since it is also possible that Hüsameddin used the later name retrospectively, the date of the naming cannot be stated with certainty.
The information on the Fâtımiye Madrasa likewise comes from Hüsameddin. In the volume he devoted to the scholars of Amasya, in telling the life of Ahmed Efendi, who succeeded his father, he writes that he became müderris of the madrasa that his sister Fatma Molla had built next to the Gümüşlüzâde Mosque. According to the same biography, after his father's death Ahmed Efendi, offended over some matter, gave up the professorship and Amasya, went on the pilgrimage and stayed in Medina, became known for teaching and transmitting hadith in the Prophet's Mosque, in 1072 became müderris of the Murâdiye Madrasa in Medina, and died in Rebîülevvel 1080 and was buried in Jannat al-Baqi.
Köprülü's Sons
The telhis record in the footnote is a little-known detail about the family of Köprülü Mehmed Pasha. The best-known of Köprülü's children are Fâzıl Ahmed Pasha, who was grand vizier in 1661-1676, and Fâzıl Mustafa Pasha, grand vizier in 1689-1691. It is plausible that the "Mustafa Bey" to whom Hüsameddin says eighty akçe a day was assigned from the Tokat mint in 1644 is the son later known as Fâzıl Mustafa Pasha; but the sources do not say so explicitly. No information was found in other sources on the elder son Hüseyin Bey, who is named in the telhis and had died by that date. The title "former mutasarrıf of Amasya" in the record also adds a datum to the Köprülü-Amasya question discussed in the previous entry; however, the original text of the telhis has not been published.
Bibliography
Primary sources
- Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 4, p. 568–568. amasya.bel.tr
- Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, vols. 6-8, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, entry "Ahmed Efendi-Zileli Muharremzâde", e-book p. 171.
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