Job title
Zabita Kitabeti
Group of job titles: Correspondence and registry
Stored spellings: Zabita kitabeti
4 officials held the job title Zabita Kitabeti. Its 4 annual entries run from 1855 to 1873 (AH 1272 to 1289). The median of the 4 recorded monthly salaries is 270 kuruş, against 466.25 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The entries name 4 places. The place with the largest number of officials is Cizre, with 1.
- Officials
- 4
- Years on recordAH 1272 to 1289, 4 years with an entry
- 1855 to 1873
- Median monthly salaryfrom 4 recorded salaries
- 270 kuruş
- Places with officials
- 4
Profile of the group: Correspondence and registry
No source read describes Zabita Kitabeti 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.
Where the job was held
Places
| Place | Province | Officials | Annual entries | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cizre | Diyarbakır province | 1 | 1 | 1855/56 |
| Harput | Mamuretülaziz province | 1 | 1 | 1859/60 |
| Kirim | 1 | 1 | 1856/57 | |
| Sivas | Sivas province | 1 | 1 | 1872/73 |
Ottoman officials recorded
4 officials, the one with most annual entries first.
| Official | Years | Annual entries | Kuruş a month | Birthplace |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ahmet Hamdi Efendi | 1859/60 | 1 | 250 | Harput |
| Ali Sefik Efendi | 1872/73 | 1 | 100 | Divriği |
| Mahmut Hamdi Efendi | 1855/56 | 1 | 300 | Kemaliye (Eğin) |
| Mehmet Zeki Efendi | 1856/57 | 1 | 290 | Sofia (Sofya) |
Years run from the first to the last annual entry. An official without a recorded name is listed after the named officials.
How to read these records: years and calendars, what first recorded means, gaps between annual entries, and salaries.
Subjects
- Zabita Kitabeti
- 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)