Job title

Evrak Muduru

Group of job titles: Correspondence and registry

Stored spellings: Evrak muduru

1 official held the job title Evrak Muduru. Its 19 annual entries run from 1887 to 1906 (AH 1305 to 1323). The median of the 19 recorded monthly salaries is 2,790 kuruş, against 500 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The entries name 1 place, Istanbul.

Officials: 1
Years on recordAH 1305 to 1323, 19 years with an entry: 1887 to 1906
Median monthly salaryfrom 19 recorded salaries: 2,790 kuruş
Places with officials: 1

Profile of the group: Correspondence and registry

No source read describes Evrak Muduru by itself, so this is the profile of its group of job titles.

Offices that wrote, copied, registered and kept the papers of a department: correspondence offices (tahrirat), the offices of the corresponding secretary (mektubi), records offices (evrak) and registrars (mukayyit).

Hard skills

official writing (kitabet, inşa) and fine handwriting, taught first in the offices and from 1839 in schools for officials

History

Before the reforms clerks were trained in the offices (kalem) themselves. Boys of twelve, or even seven or eight, attended an office and learned the forms of official writing from senior clerks; after three to five years without pay they became supernumeraries (mülazım) on a small salary.

Sources

Akyıldız, Ali (2019). Mekteb-i Maârif-i Adliyye. TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, supplement vol. 2 (revised third printing), 236-238. Online copy (read 14 October 2026).Pages or part: 236. Used for: hard skills, history.
Findley, Carter V. (1980). Bureaucratic Reform in the Ottoman Empire: The Sublime Porte, 1789-1922. Princeton: Princeton University Press.Pages or part: 78, 171-172, 199. Used for: summary.
İpşirli, Mehmet (2001). Kalemiye. TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, vol. 24, 248-249. Online copy (read 14 October 2026).Pages or part: 248-249. Used for: hard skills, history.

Places

Places of Evrak Muduru, the place with most officials first
Place	Province	Officials	Annual entries	Years
Istanbul (Dersaadet)	Istanbul (Dersaadet) province	1	19	1887 to 1906

Ottoman officials recorded

Officials of Evrak Muduru
Official	Years	Annual entries	Kuruş a month	Birthplace
Mehmet Salim Bey	1887 to 1906	19	1,200 to 3,000	Istanbul (Dersaadet)

How to read these records: years and calendars, what first recorded means, gaps between annual entries, and salaries.

Profile of the group: Correspondence and registry#