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Job title

Mubayaat Mukayyit

Group of job titles: Correspondence and registry

Stored spellings: Mubayaat mukayyit

1 official held the job title Mubayaat Mukayyit. Its 3 annual entries run from 1877 to 1879 (AH 1294 to 1296). The median of the 3 recorded monthly salaries is 400 kuruş, against 600 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The entries name 1 place, Istanbul.

Officials
1
Years on recordAH 1294 to 1296, 3 years with an entry
1877 to 1879
Median monthly salaryfrom 3 recorded salaries
400 kuruş
Places with officials
1

Profile of the group: Correspondence and registry

No source read describes Mubayaat Mukayyit 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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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 Mubayaat Mukayyit, the place with most officials first
PlaceProvinceOfficialsAnnual entriesYears
Istanbul (Dersaadet)Istanbul (Dersaadet) province131877 to 1879

Ottoman officials recorded

Officials of Mubayaat Mukayyit
OfficialYearsAnnual entriesKuruş a monthBirthplace
Hüseyin Hüsnü Efendi1877 to 18793400Istanbul (Dersaadet)

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

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