Job title
Divan Istinaf Baskitabi
Group of job titles: Justice and legal affairs
Stored spellings: Divan istinaf Baskitabi
1 official held the job title Divan Istinaf Baskitabi. Its 2 annual entries run from 1868 to 1870 (AH 1285 to 1286). The median of the 2 recorded monthly salaries is 2,100 kuruş, against 600 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The entries name 1 place, Istanbul.
- Officials
- 1
- Years on recordAH 1285 to 1286, 2 years with an entry
- 1868 to 1870
- Median monthly salaryfrom 2 recorded salaries
- 2,100 kuruş
- Places with officials
- 1
Profile of the group: Justice and legal affairs
No source read describes Divan Istinaf Baskitabi by itself, so this is the profile of its group of job titles.
Officials of the courts and offices of the Ministry of Justice (Adliye), created on 14 February 1870 from the court Divan-ı Ahkam-ı Adliye. The new courts (nizamiye) were set up in the provinces from the 1860s.
History
The regulation of 21 May 1879 organised the ministry as the Ministry of Justice and Sects (Adliye ve Mezahib Nezareti), with an undersecretary, a corresponding secretary, directors for criminal and civil affairs, for the records of officials and for documents, and an accountant. The commercial courts came under the ministry in 1875.
Sources
- Findley, Carter V. (1980). Bureaucratic Reform in the Ottoman Empire: The Sublime Porte, 1789-1922. Princeton: Princeton University Press.Pages or part: 178. Used for: summary.
- Yavuz, Hulusi (1988). Adliye Nezâreti. TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, vol. 1, 389-390. Online copy (read 14 October 2026).Pages or part: 389. Used for: summary, history.
Places
| Place | Province | Officials | Annual entries | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Istanbul (Dersaadet) | Istanbul (Dersaadet) province | 1 | 2 | 1868 to 1870 |
Ottoman officials recorded
| Official | Years | Annual entries | Kuruş a month | Birthplace |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Muftuzade Mehmet Hilmi Efendi | 1868 to 1870 | 2 | 2,100 | Kahramanmaraş (Maraş) |
How to read these records: years and calendars, what first recorded means, gaps between annual entries, and salaries.
Subjects
- Divan Istinaf Baskitabi
- Ottoman job titles (Osmanlı memuriyet unvanları)
- Labour history (emek tarihi)
- Salaries of officials (memur maaşları)
- Ottoman history (Osmanlı tarihi)
- Ottoman bureaucracy (Osmanlı bürokrasisi)
- Ottoman officials (Osmanlı'da memurlar)
- Ottoman personnel registers (Sicill-i Ahvâl defterleri)
- Ottoman registers (Osmanlı defterleri)