Biography writer. (B. ?,
Ayvansaray/Istanbul- D. 1787, Istanbul).
He was a member of Janissary Class. He
was the Baltacılar chamberlain. He has recorded the mosques, small mosques,
lodges and their epitaphs, the names of those who have built them along with
extensions of mosques and the poems about epitaphs. He has also written works
which mentioned the fires in Istanbul,
and items such as tobacco and coffee. He has written the biographies of famous
Sufis, poet Ottoman Sultans, statesmen, some scholars and poets. It is being
told that he compiled several müstezads from
different Divans and prepared a work named Eş‘ârnâme-i
Müstezâd and
also compiled the dispersed poets of Asik Ömer in the order of a Divan.
WORKS:
Hadîkâtul‘ cevâmi (A
addendum with 2 vol. was prepared by Ali Satı, who was grandboy of Zileli
İmamzâde, 1864), Mecmûa-i Tevârih (haz. Fahri Ç. Derin - Vahit Çabuk,
1895), Vefeyât (Biographies of some
poets and poet Ottoman Sultans), Vefeyât-ı Selâtin Meşâhir-i Rical (Biographies
of Ottoman Sultans and grand viziers and viziers and governors).
REFERENCE: Halil Edhem (Eldem) / Câmilerimiz (1932), Fahri Ç. Derin / Hafız Hüseyin Ayvansarâyî (1978), TDE Ansiklopedisi (vol. 4, 1981),
TDOE-TDE Ansiklopedisi 2 (2002), İhsan Işık (TEKAA, 2009).
