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Ġsmâil Hakkı Efendi

Born 1880/81 (AH 1298) · Mecca (Mekke) · Dated entries 1898 to 1911 (AH 1316 to 1329)

Languages Arabic, Persian, Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAĠD. d, nr. 164/417, s.417

The career, year by year

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

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1Mecca (Mekke)Canik
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 4 · Mecca (Mekke)

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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.

Entries within the same AH year are not ordered. Stages with more than one located locality remain unconnected; each source place stays visible.

  1. 1

    1880/81 (AH 1298)

    Mecca (Mekke)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1898/99 (AH 1316)

    Mecca (Mekke)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 18

    2. Müdüriyet Hazinesi Muhasebe Kalemi cerâye mukayyidi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 18

  3. 3

    1899/1900 (AH 1317) · 12 recorded years

    Mecca (Mekke)

    AH entries: 1317, 1318, 1319, 1320, 1321, 1322, 1323, 1324, 1325, 1326, 1327, 1328. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Müdüriyet Hazinesi Muhasebe Kalemi cerâye mukayyidi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 19

      Continuing service as described

    2. Müdüriyet Hazinesi muhasebe kâtibi

      750 kuruşCalculated age 30

    All 15 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1911 (AH 1329)

    Mecca (Mekke) / Canik

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Mecca (Mekke)

      Müdüriyet Hazinesi muhasebe kâtibi

      750 kuruşCalculated age 31

      Continuing service as described

    2. Canik

      Evkaf kâtibi

      500 kuruşCalculated age 31

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

1 entry 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 from AH year labels. Missing amounts remain unrecorded; zero remains zero.

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Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts

Select an amount for its date, post, place and age.

● Post entry● Retirement● Other status

Dated rates and labelled continuing-service entries, not total annual earnings. Missing amounts remain blank; zero remains zero.

Where the career is recorded

Distinct AH years with career entries
  1. 1898 to 1911 (AH 1316 to 1329)
  2. 1911 (AH 1329)

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

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate
  1. Mecca (Mekke)300 to 750

Ranges retain different rates and source assertions. Retirement amounts are separate from post pay.

Titles across the recorded years

Distinct AH years with each recorded title
  1. 1904 to 1911 (AH 1322 to 1329)
  2. 1898 to 1905 (AH 1316 to 1322)
  3. 1911 (AH 1329)

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

Education and personal record

Schooling İbtidai ve rüşdiye [source]

Qualification Şehadetnamesi yok [1]

Language skills and historical terms

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

All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicil-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Osmanlı Devletinde görev yapan hicazlı devlet memurları

    BEYHAN KACIROĞLU · 2021 · Pages 162, 163

    226 BOA. DH. SAĠD. d, nr. 164/417, s.417.

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 14 dated years

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