Job title
Istinaf Mahkemesi
Group of job titles: Justice and legal affairs
Stored spellings: istinaf Mahkemesi
1 official held the job title Istinaf Mahkemesi. Its 3 annual entries run from 1878 to 1882 (AH 1296 to 1299). The median of the 3 recorded monthly salaries is 3,000 kuruş, against 500 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The entries name 2 places. The place with the largest number of officials is Suriye, with 1.
- Officials
- 1
- Years on recordAH 1296 to 1299, 3 years with an entry
- 1878 to 1882
- Median monthly salaryfrom 3 recorded salaries
- 3,000 kuruş
- Places with officials
- 2
Profile of the group: Justice and legal affairs
No source read describes Istinaf Mahkemesi 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suriye | Syria (Suriye) province | 1 | 2 | 1878 to 1880 |
| Erzurum | Erzurum province | 1 | 1 | 1881/82 |
Ottoman officials recorded
| Official | Years | Annual entries | Kuruş a month | Birthplace |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ahmet İsmet Efendi | 1878 to 1882 | 3 | 3,000 to 4,000 | Istanbul (Dersaadet) |
How to read these records: years and calendars, what first recorded means, gaps between annual entries, and salaries.
Subjects
- Istinaf Mahkemesi
- 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)