AMASYA 05

Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL

Üveys Dede, Veysî Dede

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 7, p. 376 • Edited by: Prof. Dr. Safi ARPAGUŞ- Prof. Dr. Ahmet Hakkı TURABİ

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Amasyalıdır. Taşcızâde Mahmûd Çelebi mahdûmudur. Amasya Mevlevîhânesi Şeyhi Mehmed Ârif Dede hizmetinde tahsîl-i irfân edib aşçıbaşılıktan meydancı ve mesnevîhân olup 1067’de mevlevîhâne şeyhi oldu. Ba’dehû Abdülkâdir Dede ile münâvebe üzere azl ve nasbedilerek 1075 hudûdunda vefât etdi. Urefâ-yı Mevleviyye’den, şâir, ârif-i tarîkat bir zât idi.

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In Modern English

He was a native of Amasya. He is the son of Taşcızâde Mahmud Çelebi. In the service of Mehmed Ârif Dede, sheikh of the Amasya Mevlevi lodge, he acquired learning and rose from the post of kitchen chief to meydancı and mesnevîhân, and in 1067 [1656-57] he became sheikh of the lodge. He was then dismissed and reappointed in turn with Abdülkadir Dede, and died around 1075 [1664-65]. He was one of the Mevlevi gnostics, a poet, and a man who knew the way of the order.

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • mahdûm: son
  • mevlevîhâne: Mevlevi lodge
  • tahsîl-i irfân: acquiring knowledge and refinement
  • aşçıbaşı: the dervish at the head of the lodge kitchen
  • meydancı: the dervish in charge of the services of the semahane (meydan)
  • mesnevîhân: the official who recites the Mesnevi
  • münâvebe üzere: in turn, alternately
  • azl ve nasb: dismissal and appointment
  • urefâ-yı Mevleviyye: the elite among the Mevlevi gnostics
  • ârif-i tarîkat: one who knows the way of the order, a person of spiritual knowledge

Mevlevism in Amasya

The history of Mevlevism in Amasya goes back to the time of Sultan Veled: Sultan Veled sent his caliphs to Amasya, Kırşehir and Erzincan and had zawiyas founded there. It appears that there were two Mevlevi lodges in Amasya: an entry that tells the history of Mevlevism writes that in the seventeenth century Grand Vizier Bayram Pasha founded the "second" Mevlevi lodges of Kayseri and Amasya. Which of these was the lodge where Hüsameddin's Veysî Dede became sheikh in 1067 [1656-57] cannot be understood from the text; therefore which one he headed could not be verified. It is also known from waqf records and from Hüsameddin that a Mevlevi lodge was built in 817 [1414-15] near the village of Şeyh Cuî in Amasya by Şeyh Cemaleddin son of Şeyh Osman, and that its sheikh was Mehmed Cuî Dede; Veysî Dede appears to have no connection with it.

Sheikhs and Sources

There is a 1996 article by Adnan Gürbüz on the Amasya Mevlevi lodge and its waqfs (Selçuk Üniversitesi Türkiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, II, p. 287-295); since its text could not be reached, the names Mehmed Ârif Dede, Abdülkadir Dede and Veysî Dede given by Hüsameddin could not be compared with that study. No information on Taşcızâde Mahmud Çelebi, Mehmed Ârif Dede, Abdülkadir Dede or Veysî Dede was found in other sources. The reasons for the dismissals and appointments are not given in the text.

Bibliography

Primary sources

  • Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 7, p. 376–376. amasya.bel.tr

Academic studies

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