Sâbıku’t-terceme Sofu Üveys Çelebizâde Fethullâh Çelebi mahdûmudur. Hakâlalı es-Seyyid Muhyiddîn Efendi’nin halka-i tedrîsinde tahsîl-i ulûm edib bir müddet ders-i âm, Amasya medreselerine müderris oldu. Sonra silk-i kudâta girip kasabât ve bilâda kadı olarak 1000 sâline doğru vefât etdi. Veysî Çelebi [368] demekle meşhûr idi.
Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL
Üveys Çelebi, Sofu Üveysoğlu
Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 7, p. 375 • Edited by: Prof. Dr. Safi ARPAGUŞ- Prof. Dr. Ahmet Hakkı TURABİ
Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)
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Editor: Mevlüt Erdem Öztürk
In Modern English
He is the son of Fethullah Çelebi, son of Sofu Üveys Çelebi, whose biography appeared in the previous entry. He studied the sciences in the teaching circle of Seyyid Muhyiddin Efendi of Hakâla. For a time he held public lectures and became a müderris in the madrasas of Amasya. He then entered the ranks of the kadıs and died around the year 1000 [1591-92] as kadı in towns and cities. He was known as Veysî Çelebi.
Notes and Research
Old Words in the Text
- sâbıku't-terceme: whose biography has appeared earlier
- mahdûm: son
- halka-i tedrîs: teaching circle, the group of students gathered around a teacher
- tahsîl-i ulûm: studying the sciences
- ders-i âm: a teacher giving open lectures; in the text it is understood as a teaching post before becoming a müderris (inference)
- müderris: madrasa professor
- silk-i kudât: the body of kadıs
- kasabât ve bilâd: towns and cities
- meşhûr: well known, called by a name
Family and Name
The entry introduces the grandson of the Halveti sheikh Sofu Üveys Çelebi, described in the previous entry; according to the chain Hüsameddin gives, Veysî Çelebi is a member of the family called the Üveys Oğulları. The name Veysî looks like a shortened form of the name Üveys; in this family and in neighbouring entries Hüsameddin uses the forms Üveys, Veysî and Vâyis side by side. This is an inference; the text does not explain it.
His Teacher and Career
Who his teacher "Seyyid Muhyiddin Efendi of Hakâla" was, and where Hakâla lay, could not be determined in the sources read. In which madrasas Veysî Çelebi taught, in which towns he served as kadı, and where he died are also not written in the text. No information on Veysî Çelebi or his father Fethullah Çelebi was found in other sources.
Bibliography
- Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 7, p. 375–375. amasya.bel.tr