The Hâcezâdes are the descendants of Kadızâde Mehmed İlmî Efendi, a madrasa teacher known in early seventeenth-century Amasya by the nickname "Küçük Hâce", the Little Master. The family takes its name from that nickname; Hüsameddin writes the same people sometimes as "Hâcezâde" and sometimes as "Hocazâde". In the middle of the seventeenth century the sons of Küçük Hâce taught in the madrasas of Amasya, served as judges in the small towns of the province and were counted among the well-known poets of the city. His grandson Hâfız Halîl Efendi joined the imams of the Sultan Bayezid Mosque around 1082 [1671], and the mosque's first imamate remained in his line for more than a century. In the same generation Emîr Hacı Abdüllatîf Çelebi became the city's chief notable and deputy of the marshal of the descendants of the Prophet, while Halîl Efendi's son es-Seyyid Abdülganî rose to the vizierate as "Abdî Pasha". The library that Abdî Pasha's brother Emîr İmâm Abdüllatîf Efendi built opposite the Sultan Bayezid school stood until the fire of 1915 and was the collection Hüsameddin used more than any other in Amasya.

In Hüsameddin's Amasya Tarihi the family can be followed without a break from the early seventeenth century to the middle of the nineteenth. The book gives separate entries to thirty-one people of this line; only six of them carry the name "Hâcezâde" in their titles, while the others are recorded under the nicknames "Hocazâde", "Emîr İmâmzâde", "Emîr Hacızâde" or "Kadızâde". Most entries are short and several of them disagree with one another. Even so, because the fathers' names are given as chains, the three main branches of the family and some seven or eight generations can be reconstructed with confidence.

Name and Origins

Mehmed İlmî Efendi, regarded as the founder of the family, was the son of Mustafa Efendi of Amasya, a judge (kadı) of the city. The nickname "Kadızâde", son of the judge, comes from this father; "Küçük Hâce" was the name he earned himself as a teacher in Amasya. His sons and grandsons were called "Hâcezâde" or "Hocazâde" after this nickname. Hüsameddin usually refers to him as "Kadızâde Mehmed İlmî Efendi"; in two places his name appears as "Mehmed Ali", and in one place he is simply "Hâce Mehmed Efendi". Mehmed İlmî Efendi has no entry of his own in the published volumes of the book, and the years of his birth and death are unknown. His pupils included İslâm Efendi of Zile, Emîr Hamzazâde Eşref Ali Çelebi, Cizyedârzâde İlhâmî Hasan Çelebi, Şeyh Ya'kûbzâde Sinâneddîn Yûsuf Efendi and Yağmûrîzâde İsmâil Efendi, which shows that he was one of the leading teachers of the city in the first half of the seventeenth century.

Two new nicknames arose in later generations. The line of Hâfız Halîl Efendi, elder son of Mehmed İlmî Efendi's son Abdüllatîf Efendi, came to be called the "Emîr İmâm Oğulları" after Halîl Efendi's son Emîr İmâm Abdüllatîf Efendi, and the line of Abdüllatîf Efendi's younger son Emîr Hacı Abdüllatîf Çelebi the "Emîr Hacı Oğulları". The title "Emîr" derives from descent from the Prophet. Emîr Hacı's mother was of the line of Hasan, son of Ali; Hâfız Halîl Efendi, for his part, had married the daughter of Ganizâde es-Seyyid el-Hâc Halîl Efendi, and his sons carried the title "es-Seyyid" through this marriage. The family's sayyid status therefore came through the female line, and Hüsameddin states this plainly for both branches.

Not everyone called "Hâcezâde" in Hüsameddin belongs to this line. The most important distinction concerns the sons of İğnecizâde Ömer Efendi, tutor of Osman II. The book records them as "Hâcezâde" as well, because their father was the "Hâce-i Sultânî", the sultan's tutor: the chief military judge of Rumelia Abdullah Efendi (992-1045 [1584-1636]), his brother Takıyyeddîn Osman Efendi (d. 1061 [1651]) and Abdullah Efendi's son, the marshal of the descendants of the Prophet and chief military judge of Anatolia es-Seyyid Osman Efendi (1036-1112 [1627-1700]). That family descended from the Halveti sheikh İğnecizâde Safiyyüddîn and lived within the learned establishment of Istanbul rather than in Amasya; nothing indicates that it was related to Küçük Hâce. The only link between the two houses is patronage: Küçük Hâce's brother Abdülkerîm Efendi went to Istanbul when Ömer Efendi became tutor to the princes and received Ömer Efendi's lecturing chair at Hagia Sophia. The family described here is that of Küçük Hâce; the İğnecizâde house is a separate family.

Other people named "Hâcezâde" in the book cannot be tied to either house. Among them are Hocazâde Muslihuddîn Mustafa Efendi (d. 893 [1488]), the scholar of the reigns of Mehmed II and Bayezid II, the Şeyhülislam Es'ad Efendi, son of Hoca Sadeddin Efendi, and Hâcezâde İbrâhim Efendi, who taught in Amasya in the nineteenth century. The following entries in Hüsameddin's list also fall outside the family, since each man's father was a different "hâce": the calligrapher Celâleddîn Ahmed Çelebi (grandson of the merchant Hâce Alâeddîn Ali Çelebi), the two Hasan Efendis of Lâdik and of Ziyâre, Râzî Yûsuf Efendi, son of Hâce İlyâs Efendi, Rahmî Mehmed Efendi of the line of Hâce İsmâil of Yağmurköy, Sa'dullâh Efendi, son of İsmâil Efendi of Merzifon, Sa'îd Mehmed Efendi, son of Hâce Mustafa Efendi of Tirebolu, Süleyman Efendi, son of Lâz Hâce İbrâhim Efendi, the treasurer Sünbül Ali Efendi, son of Sünbül Hâce, Tâlib Mehmed Efendi, uncle of Lala Osman Pasha, and Abdüssamed Efendi, whose father is not named.

The Family through the Generations

Küçük Hâce and His Brother Abdülkerîm Efendi

What is known of the first generation comes from the entries on Mehmed İlmî Efendi's sons and brother. His brother Abdülkerîm Efendi studied in Amasya and became a madrasa teacher, then went to Istanbul when Ömer Efendi of Amasya became tutor to Osman II. His clear and persuasive lecturing won the admiration of the scholars, and Ömer Efendi's lecturing chair at the Hagia Sophia Mosque was given to him. He held it for about twelve years and, according to an account register, died on 8 Receb 1042 [19 January 1633]. Hüsameddin describes him as a learned, chaste and ascetic scholar whose words carried weight. Mehmed İlmî Efendi remained in Amasya; three of his sons received their education directly from their father.

The Sons of Küçük Hâce

Mehmed İlmî Efendi's eldest son Ahmed Efendi studied with his father and became a public lecturer, taught in turn at the madrasas of Amasya and then became teacher at the Kameriyye Madrasa in Tokat. He afterwards entered the judiciary, served as judge in small towns and several times as deputy judge of Amasya, and died in 1058 [1648]. That he was a poet using the pen name "Rahmî" was, in Hüsameddin's own words, "learned later"; his son Lütfullah Efendi was one of the senior clerks of the Imperial Council. Another entry in the book overlaps with this record: the poet Rahmî Mehmed Efendi (d. 1091 [1680]), of the line of Hâce İsmâil of Yağmurköy, also bore the pen name "Rahmî", and his son too was named el-Hâc Lütfullah Efendi. Whether the two entries describe one man, or whether the names and pen names coincide by chance, cannot be settled from the book.

The second son, Remzî Abdullah Efendi, studied with his father, with İsmâil Efendi of Yağmurköy and with Gürcü İmam Hâfız Hasan Efendi, and married Hâfız Hasan Efendi's daughter. He won renown by teaching for some thirty years and held posts at most of the madrasas of Amasya. In 1061 [1651] he became teacher at the Hâtuniye Madrasa in Tokat, and he died in Zilhicce 1063 [October 1653]. Hüsameddin remembers him as a poet able to write in Arabic, Persian and Turkish and as a master of the literary sciences. He had obtained a qasida that Remzî presented to Sultan Murad when the sultan came to Amasya, together with other poems, but these burned along with his own books. The chief muezzin of the Sultan Bayezid Mosque, Hâfız Abdullah Çelebi, and the Merzifon poet Harîmî Abdullah Çelebi learned literature from him.

The third son, Abdüllatîf Efendi, studied with his father and became preacher (hatib) of the Fethiye Mosque. He began teaching in his father's lifetime, held the madrasas of Amasya in turn and retired with the post of preacher at the Pervâne Bey Mosque. He taught Qur'anic exegesis and hadith in that mosque until his death in Zilhicce 1065 [October 1655]. According to the chronicle section he was sheikh of the Sultan Bayezid soup kitchen; on his death this post went to his elder son Hâfız Halîl Efendi, and his younger son Abdüllatîf Çelebi was placed under his elder brother's guardianship. This younger son had been born three months after his father's death.

The Sons of Remzî Abdullah Efendi

Remzî Abdullah Efendi's sons produced the family's poets and calligraphers. Şevkî Mehmed Efendi studied with Fâzıl Mehmed Efendi, known in Amasya as the "Tall Teacher". Because he had come to know Köprülüzâde Fâzıl Ahmed Pasha in Amasya, he went to Istanbul and became a public lecturer, then entered the judiciary. He served as judge first in sanjak and later in provincial centres, notably in newly conquered places such as Uyvar, Crete, Kamaniçe and Hotin. In 1097 [1686] he retired, endowed his properties and cash for the recitation of Qur'an sections in the Fatih Mosque, and left the administration of the endowment to his son-in-law Sefer Ağazâde Mahmûd Çavuş of Amasya and his descendants. He died around 1100 [1688-89]. Müstakîmzâde's Tuhfetü'l-Hattâtîn counts him among the pupils of Nefeszâde Seyyid İsmail Efendi in the ta'lik script, while the Tezkire of Müderris Abdî Efendi says that he learned calligraphy from Fazlullah Efendi of Amasya.

The clearest contradiction within the book lies in Şevkî Mehmed Efendi's entry. There his father is given as "Mehmed İlmî Efendi, known as Küçük Hâce, son of Abdullah Remzî Efendi", so that father and grandfather have changed places. Remzî Abdullah Efendi's entry, however, makes Mehmed İlmî the father of Remzî and Şevkî the son of Remzî, and Hâmid Ahmed Efendi's entry likewise treats Şevkî as Remzî's son and his own brother. As these two entries confirm one another, the order Mehmed İlmî, Remzî, Şevkî is followed here.

Hâmid Ahmed Efendi studied with his father and with Uzun Mehmed Efendi, became a public lecturer and, after teaching at several madrasas in Amasya, entered the judiciary. In 1087 [1676] he was promoted to the judgeship of Trabzon, later reached the rotating senior judgeships, and died around 1103 [1691-92]. Hüsameddin calls him a scholar, poet and man of letters. The third son, Hâfız Abdurrahmân Efendi, was sheikh of the Qur'an reciters and died on the pilgrimage road in 1071 [1660-61]. According to Hüsameddin his orphaned son Hasan Efendi grew up "in the house of Hâcezâde el-Hâc Ahmed Efendi"; that this Ahmed Efendi was his uncle Hâmid Ahmed Efendi is plausible, but it is an inference. After his studies Hasan Efendi became a public lecturer and then teacher at the Halifet Gazi Madrasa, taught for many years and died around 1138 [1725-26].

Hâfız Halîl Efendi and the Imamate of Sultan Bayezid

The family's real standing in Amasya was founded by Abdüllatîf Efendi's elder son, Hâfız el-Hâc Halîl Efendi. Living in the Çeribaşı quarter, Halîl Efendi memorised the Qur'an and learned the variant readings in his father's lifetime. On his father's death he became sheikh of the Sultan Bayezid soup kitchen. According to his own entry, in Rebiülevvel 1082 [July 1671] he became first imam of the mosque in place of the deceased Hâfız Ahmed Efendi; the entry on Hâfız Ahmed Efendi, known as the "Sultan's Nightingale", says the same. The chronicle section gives a different sequence: in a record falling around 1083 [1672], on Hâfız Ahmed Efendi's death the second imam Nasûh Efendi became first imam and Halîl Efendi became second imam. A list of the endowment's staff from a few years later still counts Halîl Efendi as second imam. He can therefore have succeeded to the first imamate only after Nasûh Efendi; the date cannot be drawn from the book. Later he completed his studies, became a public lecturer and sheikh of the reciters, and then preacher of the mosque. He taught the readings and the Qur'an for many years and died in Şaban 1133 [June 1721]. He was the son-in-law of Ganizâde es-Seyyid el-Hâc Halîl Efendi, and his sons es-Seyyid Abdüllatîf, es-Seyyid Mehmed Emîn and es-Seyyid Abdülganî were born of this marriage.

Emîr Hacı Abdüllatîf Çelebi

Abdüllatîf Efendi's younger son es-Seyyid el-Hâc Abdüllatîf Çelebi, born three months after his father's death, grew up under the guardianship of his elder brother Halîl Efendi. Being related to Velî Emîr Mehmed Pasha, he was brought up in the pasha's household, gained wealth and influence through him and, as the pasha's son-in-law, took his place among the notables of Amasya. Because his mother was of the line of Hasan he was known as "Emîr", and he was remembered as "Emîr Hacı". When the council of notables was set up in Amasya in 1102 [1690-91] he was among its first members; later he served several times as deputy marshal of the descendants of the Prophet, as steward of the city and as chief notable.

This influence disturbed his rivals. When a petition drawn up by his opponents reached the Sublime Porte, a decree arriving in Zilhicce 1123 [January 1712] removed him from the stewardship of the city and from the marshal's office and confined him in the citadel of Amasya. When his protector, the grand admiral el-Hâc Ahmed Pasha of Amasya, became deputy grand vizier in Istanbul, a decree for his pardon was issued in Rebiülevvel 1124 [April 1712] and he was ordered to remain in his house. In Şaban 1126 [August 1714] he was again deputy marshal, and in Safer 1127 [February 1715] he was dismissed once more after renewed complaints. He spent some time in Istanbul, made a second pilgrimage in 1129, returned the following year, and for about five years kept out of the city's affairs in public.

On the first day of Muharrem 1135 [October 1722] he again became deputy marshal. While the governor and notables of Amasya were occupied with the Iranian campaign, brigands had multiplied, and the Atmacaoğulları in particular had cut the road between Sivas and Amasya. Sent against them by a decree of Rebiülevvel 1135, Emîr Hacı marched to Çamlıbel with a hundred foot and fifty horse, scattered the brigands within fifteen days and on his return was rewarded with the rank of chief gatekeeper of the imperial court. His term as deputy marshal lasted three and a half years, and he died in Şaban 1138 [April 1726]. Hüsameddin describes his great fortune, his household that resembled a vizier's retinue and the two hundred sekban soldiers in his service. His mansion stood in İçerişehir above the Upper Bath; the ruins of its harem quarters could still be seen in Hüsameddin's day.

Abdî Pasha

Hâfız Halîl Efendi's son es-Seyyid Abdülganî is known in the histories as "es-Seyyid Abdî Pasha". In his youth he entered the palace school and was trained there, then attached himself to Kıblelizâde Mehmed Bey. In 1151 [1738-39], through the favour of Zanalızâde es-Seyyid Ahmed Pasha, he became superintendent of barley, and in 1153, during that pasha's grand vizierate, head of the treasury's arrears office. Between 1156 and 1159 he was three times chief of the palace pursuivants and twice superintendent of barley. In 1160 [1747] he became steward of the grand vizier and chief armourer. According to Hüsameddin, his rise owed something to the fact that the grand vizier of the time, Firârî Hasan Paşazâde Abdullah Pasha, was his fellow townsman. In Şevval 1162 [September 1749] he was made governor of Tırhala with the rank of vizier; he then moved to the governorships of Bosnia (1164), Eğriboz and Belgrade (1165), and died in Belgrade in Receb 1166 [May 1753].

Abdî Pasha had married the daughter of his uncle Emîr Hacı Abdüllatîf Çelebi. The marriage joined the two branches of the family, and Emîr Hacı's grandsons entered his household in Istanbul: Emîr Hacı's grandson Torun Ali Ağa became the pasha's treasurer and steward of his harem, and his brother Mustafa Ağa the pasha's steward. Abdî Pasha's son es-Seyyid Halîl Bey held chancery posts at the Sublime Porte with the rank of senior clerk, died in Receb 1187 [September 1773] and was buried at Molla Gürânî. His son Süleyman Feyzi Bey died in 1214 [1799-1800] while head clerk of the grand vizier's correspondence office.

Emîr İmâm Abdüllatîf Efendi

Hâfız Halîl Efendi's elder son es-Seyyid el-Hâc Abdüllatîf Efendi learned the Arabic sciences from the mufti of Amasya, Çorumlu Hâfız Mehmed Efendi, and the variant readings of the Qur'an from the sheikh of the reciters Cebecizâde Hâfız el-Hâc Halîl Efendi. On his father's death he became first imam of the Sultan Bayezid Mosque and sheikh of the Hâtun Sultan school for Qur'an reciters, and he made the pilgrimage twice. Rather than spend for himself the large sums sent by his brother Abdî Pasha, he built a library and endowed it with his books and properties. He was called "Emîr İmâm" both for his descent and for his imamate. Hüsameddin tells how, having once missed the dawn prayer, he learned that a traveller had led it in his place, went after the man and gave him that day's imam's wage. He died in 1169 [1755-56] and was buried in the garden of his library.

Emîr İmâm's brother es-Seyyid Mehmed Emîn Efendi studied in Istanbul, entered the judiciary by examination, served in judgeships in Rumelia and died in 1159 [1746]. His son es-Seyyid el-Hâc Halîl Efendi became preacher of the Sultan Bayezid Mosque on his father's death and died in 1181 [1767-68]; Hüsameddin remembers him as a scholar with a beautiful voice. This Halîl Efendi's son es-Seyyid Mehmed Efendi also served as preacher. Mehmed Emîn Efendi's line thus held the office of preacher alongside the imamate.

The Emîr İmâm Oğulları

Hüsameddin lists Emîr İmâm's sons as es-Seyyid Mehmed Sa'îd, Sa'dullâh, Halîl, Ebûbekir, Abdülalîm and Abdüsselâm; Mehmed Sa'îd and Sa'dullâh died before their father and were buried in the library garden. es-Seyyid el-Hâc İbrâhim Efendi, who is missing from this list, is recorded in a separate entry as a son of Emîr İmâm; after some study he made the pilgrimage, on his return sat on the councils of pilgrims and notables, and died at the end of 1205 [1791]. Abdülalîm Efendi was born, according to a note kept by his father, in Ramazan 1138 [May 1726]; he studied with Çorumlu es-Seyyid el-Hâc Ali and Hacı Âkif Mustafa Efendi and died young in 1168 [1754-55], when he had just become a public lecturer. Abdüsselâm Efendi joined his uncle Abdî Pasha in his youth, entered one of the offices of the Sublime Porte and became its head clerk; in 1183 he became master of requests with the rank of senior clerk, in 1188 chief of the palace pursuivants, and he died in Safer 1191 [March 1777].

es-Seyyid el-Hâc Halîl Efendi was born, according to a note kept by his father, on 1 Safer 1134 [November 1721]. He learned the variant readings from the sheikh of the reciters Hâfız İbrâhim Cûî Efendi, and on his father's death became imam of Sultan Bayezid and administrator of the library endowment. He joined the council of pilgrims in 1191 and the council of notables in 1194. The chief notable Gözdaşoğlu el-Hâc Mustafa Ağa harboured a grudge against him while outwardly appearing friendly. In Ramazan 1196 [August 1782], returning from Mustafa Ağa's fast-breaking dinner, he was killed in front of the Greek church by a bullet fired by an unknown man. His heirs repeatedly brought complaints against Mustafa Ağa before the court and the Imperial Council; the ağa escaped through the influence of Canikli Hacı Ali Pasha and his sons, and when that influence waned he was executed. Halîl Efendi's sons were Sa'dullâh, Abdullah, Mehmed Emîn, Ahmed and İsmâil, and his daughters Ümmü Gülsüm and Fâtıma.

Ebûbekir Efendi studied with Seküköylüzâde el-Hâc Kâşif Mehmed Efendi and Müderriszâde Hâfız es-Seyyid Mehmed Efendi, and married first the daughter of his teacher Hâfız Mehmed Efendi and later that of es-Seyyid Abdurrahîm Efendi. As teacher at the Kâşifiyye Madrasa, administrator of his father's endowments and fatwa secretary to the muftis of Amasya he taught for many years, died early in 1204 [1789] and was buried in the library garden beside his father. His son Abdüllatîf Efendi studied with Payaslı Hacı Mehmed Efendi and, thanks to his skill in the ta'lik script, became a court clerk; he died after 1245 [1829-30]. The son of Ebûbekir Efendi's other son Mehmed Sa'îd Efendi, es-Seyyid el-Hâc Sa'dullâh Efendi, studied with Şeyhzâde Abdullah Vecîh Efendi, later gave up teaching for the affairs of the town, and died in 1238 [1822-23] as a member of the councils of pilgrims and notables. Hüsameddin counts him among the notable households of the Çeribaşı quarter.

Among Halîl Efendi's sons, Hâfız es-Seyyid İsmâil Efendi became imam of Sultan Bayezid on his father's death in Ramazan 1196 and died in Şevval 1202 [July 1788]. His sons Ebûbekir and Abdülehad died within a few months of each other in 1203. es-Seyyid Sa'dullâh Efendi was born on 13 Zilhicce 1153 [February 1741] in the Çeribaşı quarter. After memorising the Qur'an at the Sultan Bayezid school he studied with Kâşif Mehmed, Ürgüplü el-Hâc Ahmed and Şeyhzâde Abdullah Vecîh Efendi. In 1196 he became teacher at the Ebûbekir Paşa Madrasa, imam of Sultan Bayezid and librarian of his grandfather's library. He taught for more than seventeen years, died in Zilkade 1213 [April 1799] and was buried in the library garden. The book states that both İsmâil and Sa'dullâh became imam in 1196; the imamate may have been shared between the two brothers, but the book does not explain this.

Sa'dullâh Efendi's sons were Abdullah Tâhir, Mehmed Sa'îd and Mustafa Sârim. The poet Hükmî Mehmed Efendi, recorded in a separate entry as "son of Sa'dullâh Efendi", took over the post of librarian in 1213 on his father's death together with his brothers Tâhir Abdullah and Sârim Mustafa. He studied with Payaslı el-Hâc Mehmed Efendi, became a public lecturer, read and taught in his ancestor's library and died in 1251 [1835-36]. His brothers were poets as well, and they exchanged verses with one another. As there was no other "Mehmed" among his father's sons, it is plausible that Hükmî was Mehmed Sa'îd; this is an inference. Mustafa Sârim Efendi's son Sârim Mehmed Efendi, after his father's death in Şaban 1226 [August 1811] and the resignation of his uncle Hâfız Abdullah Efendi, became librarian and administrator of the Sazdoğmuş estate endowment. When he died childless in Safer 1258 [March 1842], the librarianship went to Caniklizâde Hâfız Mehmed Hilmi Efendi and the administration to es-Seyyid Mehmed Sünbül Efendi. In this way the management of the library passed outside the family for the first time.

The Emîr Hacı Oğulları

Emîr Hacı Abdüllatîf Çelebi's only son, es-Seyyid el-Hâc Hüseyin Çelebi, died before his father. His sons es-Seyyid el-Hâc Ali Ağa and Mustafa Ağa and their descendants were called the "Emîr Hacıoğulları". Ali Ağa was known as "Torun Ali Ağa", Ali the Grandson, because his father had died before his grandfather. Being of the Husaynid sayyids on his mother's side, he served several times as deputy marshal of the descendants of the Prophet. Around 1152 [1739-40] he went to Istanbul and entered the household of his aunt's husband Abdî Pasha, and when the pasha became vizier in 1162 he became his treasurer and steward of the harem. After Abdî Pasha's death in 1166 he attached himself to the grand vizier Bâhir Mustafa Pasha, and in 1167 became voivode of Tokat and superintendent of the Kalhane with the rank of chief gatekeeper. Dismissed in 1170, he returned to Amasya, became deputy marshal again, member of the council of notables and chief notable, and died in 1179 [1765-66]. His sons were the vizier Râmî Hüseyin Pasha, the madrasa teacher es-Seyyid Mehmed Hâşim Efendi and es-Seyyid Ahmed Efendi. Hüsameddin opened an entry for Râmî Hüseyin Pasha but left the page blank after writing down his descent; the pasha's career does not appear in the book.

Torun Ali Ağa's brother es-Seyyid el-Hâc Mustafa Ağa is mentioned as the pasha's steward in the entries on Emîr Hacı and on Abdî Pasha. According to Emîr Hacı's entry, Mustafa Ağa's son es-Seyyid el-Hâc Hüseyin Efendi also served as deputy marshal. Hüseyin Efendi's own entry, however, gives his descent as "es-Seyyid Mustafa Ağa son of es-Seyyid el-Hâc Ali Ağa son of es-Seyyid Hüseyin Ağa son of Emîr Hacı Abdüllatîf Çelebi"; here Mustafa Ağa is Torun Ali Ağa's son rather than his brother. Since Torun Ali Ağa's entry does not name a Mustafa among his sons, the order in Emîr Hacı's entry seems the more reliable, but the book does not reconcile the two. Hüseyin Efendi taught for a time, then served several times as deputy marshal and member of the council of notables, became preacher of the Hızır Paşa Mosque in 1214 and died on 7 Şaban 1219 [November 1804]; his son es-Seyyid Mehmed Efendi was also among the sayyid notables. Hüsameddin also names the representative of this branch in his own time: Hâfız es-Seyyid Mehmed Efendi of the Emîr Hacıoğulları, imam of Sultan Bayezid, was alive and held the rank of a senior judge when the book was written.

Buildings, Endowments and Quarter

The family's most lasting work in Amasya was the library built by Emîr İmâm Abdüllatîf Efendi. According to Hüsameddin's section on the city quarters, the library was built of masonry in 1159 [1746], "in very good order", at the northern end of the Devehâne quarter, opposite the Sultan Bayezid school. It had a large garden to the south and a triangular garden to the north; a dated inscription stood over its door and the whole was enclosed by a masonry wall. Beside it stood a fatwa office. The family's own quarter in the city, however, was Çeribaşı: Hâfız Halîl Efendi lived there, Sa'dullâh Efendi was born there, and Ebûbekir Efendi's grandson Sa'dullâh Efendi was counted among the notable households of the quarter.

The management of the library remained in the family for a century. After Emîr İmâm's death the administration passed to his son Halîl Efendi and, on Halîl's death, to his grandson Sa'dullâh Efendi. Sa'dullâh Efendi's sons held the post of librarian jointly; finally, when his grandson Sârim Mehmed Efendi died childless in 1258, the office was given outside the family. The library grew through other gifts as well. Hüsameddin writes that Boluluzâde el-Hâc İbrâhim Efendi, private secretary to Abdülhamid I, who died in 1215 [1800-01], left all his books to this library and that they were still there in his own day. Keklikzâde Hatice Hatun, wife of es-Seyyid Mehmed Emîn Efendi of the Emîr İmâm line, endowed in 1235 [1819-20] her coffee house known as the "Çardaklı Kahve" and a shop for the repair and binding of the books of the library her husband administered.

In time other buildings gathered around the library. The former deputy governor of Amasya, Ak Hasanzâde el-Hâc Hasan Ağa, built a dervish lodge adjoining it; Hüsameddin dates it to 1244 in one place, to 1245 in another and to 1248 in the section on the quarters. In front of the northern garden Fâtıma Hanım, daughter of Hüseyin Pasha, built the "Telli Pınar" fountain in 1259. The Kâşifiyye Madrasa stood in the lane to the east of the library. As a young man, in the third year of the rüştiye school, Hüsameddin lodged in the room above the fatwa office beside the library and read the library's copies of Vefeyâtü'l-a'yân and Şakâik-i Nu'mâniyye. In many places in his book he quotes the flyleaf notes of manuscripts he saw there.

In the garden to the north of the library stood the "Emîr İmâm Tomb". According to Hüsameddin, the library's founder Emîr İmâm Abdüllatîf Efendi and his sons es-Seyyid Sa'dullâh, es-Seyyid Halîl and es-Seyyid Ebûbekir Efendi were buried there; Besim Pasha, a former governor of Kurdistan who was not of the family, had also been laid to rest there. According to a note by the book's editors, the whole area burned in the fire of 1333 [1915], the books were removed, the library, the gardens and the fatwa office were demolished, and "not the smallest trace remained". The source does not say where the books were taken.

The family's other charitable works are more scattered. Emîr Hacı Abdüllatîf Çelebi rebuilt the open-air prayer place at Okmeydanı, had small mosques and fountains built in several places, and was buried by the road opposite the prayer niche of that prayer place. The endowment Şevkî Mehmed Efendi founded in 1097 provided for the recitation of Qur'an sections in the Fatih Mosque in Istanbul, and its administration was left to his son-in-law's line. The location and foundation of the Sazdoğmuş estate endowment managed by the Emîr İmâm branch are not explained in the book. The family also held the first imamate of the Sultan Bayezid Mosque from the late seventeenth century until at least 1213, and the office of preacher of the mosque for two generations in the line of Mehmed Emîn Efendi.

Family Tree

  • Mustafa Efendi, judge of Amasya
    • Abdülkerîm Efendi-Kadızâde (d. 1042 [1633]), lecturer at Hagia Sophia
    • Mehmed İlmî Efendi, "Küçük Hâce", Kadızâde
      • Ahmed Efendi (Rahmî) (d. 1058 [1648])
        • Lütfullah Efendi, senior clerk of the Imperial Council
      • Remzî Abdullah Efendi (d. 1063 [1653])
        • Şevkî Mehmed Efendi (d. c. 1100 [1688-89])
        • Hâmid Ahmed Efendi (d. c. 1103 [1691-92])
        • Hâfız Abdurrahmân Efendi (d. 1071 [1660-61])
          • el-Hâc Hasan Efendi (d. c. 1138 [1725-26])
      • Abdüllatîf Efendi (d. 1065 [1655])
        • Hâfız el-Hâc Halîl Efendi (d. 1133 [1721])
          • Emîr İmâm es-Seyyid el-Hâc Abdüllatîf Efendi (d. 1169 [1755-56])
            • Mehmed Sa'îd and Sa'dullâh (died before their father)
            • es-Seyyid el-Hâc Halîl Efendi (1134-1196 [1721-1782])
              • es-Seyyid Sa'dullâh Efendi (1153-1213 [1741-1799])
                • Abdullah Tâhir Efendi
                • Mehmed Sa'îd Efendi (probably Hükmî Mehmed Efendi, d. 1251 [1835-36])
                • Hâfız Mustafa Sârim Efendi (d. 1226 [1811])
                  • Sârim Mehmed Efendi (d. 1258 [1842], childless)
              • Hâfız es-Seyyid İsmâil Efendi (d. 1202 [1788])
              • Abdullah, Mehmed Emîn and Ahmed Efendi; Ümmü Gülsüm and Fâtıma Hatun
            • es-Seyyid el-Hâc Ebûbekir Efendi (d. 1204 [1789])
              • Abdüllatîf Efendi (d. after 1245)
              • Mehmed Sa'îd Efendi
                • es-Seyyid el-Hâc Sa'dullâh Efendi (d. 1238 [1822-23])
              • Abdurrahîm Efendi
            • Abdülalîm Efendi (1138-1168 [1726-1755])
            • Abdüsselâm Efendi (d. 1191 [1777])
            • es-Seyyid el-Hâc İbrâhim Efendi (d. 1205 [1791])
          • es-Seyyid Mehmed Emîn Efendi (d. 1159 [1746])
            • es-Seyyid el-Hâc Halîl Efendi (d. 1181 [1767-68])
              • es-Seyyid Mehmed Efendi, preacher
          • es-Seyyid Abdülganî, Abdî Pasha (d. 1166 [1753]), son-in-law of Emîr Hacı
            • es-Seyyid Halîl Bey (d. 1187 [1773])
              • Süleyman Feyzi Bey (d. 1214 [1799-1800])
        • Emîr Hacı es-Seyyid el-Hâc Abdüllatîf Çelebi (1066-1138 [1656-1726])
          • es-Seyyid el-Hâc Hüseyin Çelebi (died before his father)
            • Torun Ali Ağa (d. 1179 [1765-66])
              • Râmî Hüseyin Pasha, vizier
              • es-Seyyid Mehmed Hâşim Efendi, madrasa teacher
              • es-Seyyid Ahmed Efendi
            • es-Seyyid el-Hâc Mustafa Ağa, steward of Abdî Pasha
              • es-Seyyid el-Hâc Hüseyin Efendi (d. 1219 [1804]); in his own entry, a grandson of Torun Ali Ağa
          • A daughter, wife of Abdî Pasha

Family Members in Hüsameddin

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