Raşid Muhammed Efendi

Raşid Muhammed Efendi, whose date of birth has not been identified, was the son of Hüseyin Rıza Efendi of the Uncuzâde family. The record of Hüseyin Rıza Efendi in the same cemetery also connects the Uncuzâde family with the circle of honoured judges. Raşid Muhammed Efendi therefore stands out less through his own office than as a young member of a learned-judicial family seen around Fatih in the early nineteenth century.

The name Uncuzâde is one of the family names encountered in the learned and court circles of Istanbul in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The appearance of Uncuzâde Nimetullah Efendi as a mudarris in records concerning the inspection of Istanbul madrasas in 1792, and the appointment in 1819 of another Uncuzâde Nimetullah Efendi to the judgeship of Edirne, are examples that support the family’s connection with the madrasa and judicial world.

Raşid Muhammed Efendi’s presence in the Fatih Mosque Cemetery at the early date of 1816 is also noteworthy. The cemetery in its present sense began to take shape after 1780, and in the early burials the palace circle and elite groups linked to palace permission were decisive.

Raşid Muhammed Efendi died young in 1816 and was buried in the Fatih Mosque Cemetery.