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Mustafa Şevki Efendi

Born 1868/69 (AH 1285) · Sivas · Dated entries 1881 to 1888 (AH 1299 to 1305)

Languages Arabic, Persian, Turkish

The career, year by year

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Each mark opens a dated entry. Colour identifies the place; blank years remain gaps.

1881/82 (AH 1299): medrese talebesi, Sivas Sahibiye medresesi1887/88 (AH 1305): medrese talebesi (tahsil için İstanbul'a gidiş), İstanbul FatihAH 1299AH 1305
Places and reading notes
  • Sivas Sahibiye medresesi
  • İstanbul Fatih

2 distinct dated years. Stacked marks retain different posts, rates or accounts without assigning an order within that year. Grey marks have no service place.

Follow 3 dated stages in the life. Choose a year in the life ribbon below the map. Places and earlier connections accumulate as you advance; All stops reveals the overview.

1Sivas
● Birth○ First workB / F · year unresolved● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 3 · Sivas

How to read this map

Connections join located entries in chronological stages; other recorded places stay in the text. Dashed connections pass intervening stages without a map position. They do not document a travel route or continuous service.

2 stops kept as text without a verified locality point. No provincial capital is substituted.

  1. 1

    1868/69 (AH 1285)

    Sivas

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1881/82 (AH 1299)

    Sivas Sahibiye medresesi

    Not yet located on the map: Sivas Sahibiye medresesi

    1. medrese talebesi

      Calculated age 14

  3. 3

    1887/88 (AH 1305)

    İstanbul Fatih

    Not yet located on the map: İstanbul Fatih

    1. medrese talebesi (tahsil için İstanbul'a gidiş)

      Calculated age 20

7 entries without a resolved year

These entries remain outside the dated sequence. Their position in the life cannot be established from the recorded year field.

Gregorian spans accompany recorded AH years; exact dates retain their cited wording. Stated ages are labelled; other ages are calculated only within the same recorded calendar. Missing amounts remain unrecorded; zero remains zero.

Pay over time

Pay in its time

Current collection salary comparison

Dated AH salary records of the currently selected officials; undated evidence remains in the chronology.

No annual salary observations are available for this official.

Career patterns and pay

Where the career is recorded

Distinct AH years with career entries
  1. İstanbul Fatih1
    1887/88 (AH 1305)
  2. Sivas Sahibiye medresesi1
    1881/82 (AH 1299)

Gaps do not count as service. One year can have entries in several places.

Titles across the recorded years

Distinct AH years with each recorded title
  1. 1881/82 (AH 1299)
  2. 1887/88 (AH 1305)

The most recorded title wordings. A year may include more than one title; these counts do not establish promotions or continuous tenure.

Related officials in the salary reference

All related groups and salary ranks

Education and personal record

Qualification Formal qualification recorded; icazet (1311 feraiz, 1317 Fatih); ruus [1]

Schooling Sivas mekteb-i ibtidai; Sivas Sahibiye medresesi; Fatih dersiamı Sivasi Mehmed Said Efendi halkası [source]

Language skills and historical terms

Kitâbet means writing; tekellüm means speaking; âşinâ means familiarity.

  • Arabic · Tekellüm ve kitâbet [1]
  • Persian · Aşina [source]
  • Turkish · Tekellüm ve kitâbet [1]

Honours and other personal details

Judicial record indicator (recorded code)
0 (recorded code) [source]
Judicial record as worded
0 (recorded code) [source]
All personal fields and their sources

Personal details

Birthplace
Sivas [source]
Birth province
Sivas [source]
Birth year
1868/69 (AH 1285) [source]
Father’s occupation
Celalli memlehası memuru [source]
Religion
İslam [source]

Education and languages

Arabic
Tekellüm ve kitâbet [1]
Persian
Aşina [source]
Turkish
Tekellüm ve kitâbet [1]
Qualification
Formal qualification recorded [source]icazet (1311 feraiz, 1317 Fatih); ruus [1]Original wording is retained alongside any qualification indicator.
Education detail
medrese tahsili, 1306-1308 talebe şehadetnameleri, icazetnameler, Edirne medrese-i saniye-i şerefiye ruusu [source]
Education
Sivas mekteb-i ibtidai; Sivas Sahibiye medresesi; Fatih dersiamı Sivasi Mehmed Said Efendi halkası [source]

First work and apprenticeship

First work place
Sivas [source]
First-salary field
150 kuruş (personal first-salary field) [source]A personal first-salary field does not by itself establish the pay of a particular career event.

Other recorded details

Judicial record indicator (recorded code)
0 (recorded code) [source]The original code is retained without assigning an unverified meaning to zero.
Judicial record as worded
0 (recorded code) [source]

Sources and evidence

  1. İstanbul Müftülüğü Meşihat Arşivinde Sivas başlığı altında bulunan sicil dosyaları

    CENAN GÜRBÜZ · 2010 · Pages 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209

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The chronology groups compatible entries for reading. Each original account remains available with its wording, dates, amounts and archival reference.

Yearly entries and their source passages · 2 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 2 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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