MUFTI OF KARAHİSARISÂHİB HÜSEYİN EFENDİZÂDE ES-SEYYİD ABDULLAH VEHBİ EFENDİ

Abstract

Mufti Abdullah Vehbi Efendi and his family, who were members of the scholarship class of the Ottoman state organization, constitute the subject of this study. It is assumed that this family, known as "es-sayyid" in the records, originated in Medina. Mufti Abdullah Vehbi Efendi's father, Hüseyin Efendi, served as the Khalwati sheikh in the khangah allocated to him next to the Nakibuleşraf District Governorship in Karahisarısâhib. It is known that this lodge was later converted into a madrasah and became famous as the "Mountain Madrasa". Son Abdullah Vehbi Efendi, on the other hand, held important positions such as mufti, mudarris, and cabi at the same place. Grandson Mehmet Vahid Efendi was also a professor and worked at Alaca Madrasa, one of the city's educational institutions. They died on various dates and were buried in the Akmescit Mosque burial ground. The fact that it is inevitable to live with the "other" in today's globalizing world has made the Ottoman state important not only for Muslims but also for all humanity in terms of benefiting from its experiences. Therefore, enlightening the situation of the scholarship class, which constitutes one of the three important professional groups of the state organization in a period when the Ottoman Empire was on the way to collapse, should be one of the issues that should be emphasized. Various studies have been done on the subject before. These studies are mostly based on the relevant sharia registers. Although we also benefited from the aforementioned records, the fact that an academician, one of the grandchildren of the family, supported our study as a writer, has enabled us to reach more specific data on the subject. As a result of this situation, it has become possible to obtain some records, remains and rumors about the family. These are the tombstone of Sheikh Hüseyin Efendi, the fountain epitaph in the family residence-medrese campus, and a divan containing the poems of his son Mehmet Vahid Efendi. Our study has been created by analysis and synthesis method, and in order to bring our research to life, the sharia registers, related researches and the remains we have mentioned have been used. With this study, based on the aforementioned works, the aforementioned remains were brought to the world of science.