İbrahim Recai Efendi

Born 1842/43 (AH 1258) · Kilis · Dated entries 1867 to 1890 (AH 1284 to 1307)

Languages Arabic, Turkish

Archival reference DH. SAİDd. 1/400

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The life

İbrahim Recai Efendi was born in Kilis in 1842/43 (AH 1258). Schooling included Sıbyan mektebi; medrese. The language repertoire included Arabic and Turkish.^[source]

Service began in Payas in 1867/68 (AH 1284). Dated career entries span 1867/68 (AH 1284) to 1884/85 (AH 1302) across 19 AH years and ending with entries for Tahrirat müdürü. More than one post or place appears in 5 of those years. Place names include Payas, İskenderun, Gaziantep (Antep) and Suriye and 4 other named places.^[1]

Monthly pay went from 375 kuruş in 1867/68 (AH 1284) to 1,500 kuruş in 1884/85 (AH 1302); the highest recorded monthly rate is 1,500 kuruş in 1884/85 (AH 1302). Death is recorded in 1889/90 (AH 1307).^[1]

Personal record

Birth: Kilis · 1842/43 (AH 1258)^[source]
Education: Sıbyan mektebi; medrese^[source]
First work: 1867/68 (AH 1284) · Payas^[source]
Age at first work: 26^[source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First salary: 250 kuruş^[source]Personal salary figure; not tied to a specific appointment.
Death recorded: 1889/90 (AH 1307)^[1]This is the year on a career record, not an exact date of death.

Career in numbers

20
Dated AH years: 9
Career place names: 2
Entries without a resolved year: 19
Salary years: 375 → 1,500
Annual series: first → last kuruş/month: 1,500
Peak in annual series, kuruş/month: 89.6%
Peers paid less in last year

About these numbers

Dated AH years. Across career and documentary records; not tenure.
Career place names. Distinct place labels; some may not be mapped.
Entries without a resolved year. The original calendar wording remains available without inventing an annual year.
Salary years. One highest recorded monthly rate per official-year; gaps are blank.
Annual series: first → last kuruş/month. 1867/68 (AH 1284) to 1884/85 (AH 1302); nominal rates in observed years.
Peak in annual series, kuruş/month. 1884/85 (AH 1302)
Peers paid less in last year. Share of other officials in the annual salary reference with lower pay in 1884/85 (AH 1302).

Life and career

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Stage 1 of 14 · Kilis

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1
1842/43 (AH 1258)
Kilis
1. Birth
  Personal record & evidence →
2
1867/68 (AH 1284)
Payas / Place not recorded / İskenderun
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded
1. Payas
  First work as recorded
  Calculated age 26
  Personal record & evidence →
2. İskenderun
  Rüsûmat müdüriyeti ambar kâtibi
  375 kuruşCalculated age 26
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 4 recorded entries in this stage →
3
1868/69 (AH 1285) · 2 recorded years
İskenderun
AH entries: 1285, 1286. Gaps remain open.
1. Rüsûmat müdüriyeti tahrirat kâtibi refiki
  490 kuruşCalculated age 27
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Rüsûmat müdüriyeti tahrirat kâtibi refiki
  490 kuruşCalculated age 28
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
4
1870/71 (AH 1287)
İskenderun / Place not recorded / Gaziantep (Antep)
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded
1. İskenderun
  Rüsûmat müdüriyeti tahrirat kâtibi refiki
  490 kuruşCalculated age 29
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Gaziantep (Antep)
  Rüsûmat müdüriyeti başkâtibi
  500 kuruşCalculated age 29
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 3 recorded entries in this stage →
5
1871/72 (AH 1288)
Gaziantep (Antep) / Suriye
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Suriye
1. Gaziantep (Antep)
  Rüsûmat müdüriyeti başkâtibi
  475 kuruşCalculated age 30
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Suriye
  Rüsûmat müdüriyeti görevi
  550 kuruşCalculated age 30
  Entry & evidence →[1]
6
1872/73 (AH 1289) · 2 recorded years
Suriye
AH entries: 1289, 1290. Gaps remain open.
Not yet located on the map: Suriye
1. Rüsûmat müdüriyeti görevi
  550 kuruşCalculated age 31
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Rüsûmat müdüriyeti görevi
  550 kuruşCalculated age 32
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
7
1874/75 (AH 1291)
Suriye / Place not recorded
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Suriye; Location not recorded
1. Suriye
  Rüsûmat müdüriyeti görevi
  550 kuruşCalculated age 33
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Place not recorded
  İstifa
  Calculated age 33
  Entry & evidence →[1]
8
1875/76 (AH 1292) · 5 recorded years
Hama
AH entries: 1292, 1293, 1294, 1295, 1296. Gaps remain open.
1. Rüsumat Memuru
  600 kuruşCalculated age 34
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Rüsumat Memuru
  600 kuruşCalculated age 38
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 5 recorded entries in this stage →
9
1879/80 (AH 1297)
Hama / Place not recorded
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded
1. Hama
  Rüsumat Memuru
  600 kuruşCalculated age 39
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Place not recorded
  İstifa
  Calculated age 39
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 3 recorded entries in this stage →
10
1880/81 (AH 1298) · 2 recorded years
Gelibolu
AH entries: 1298, 1299. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
1. Rüsumat Müdürü
  800 kuruşCalculated age 40
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Rüsumat Müdürü
  1,000 kuruşCalculated age 41
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 3 recorded entries in this stage →
11
1882/83 (AH 1300)
Gelibolu / Kütahya
Within-year entry order unresolved
1. Gelibolu
  Rüsumat Müdürü
  1,000 kuruşCalculated age 42
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Kütahya
  Rüsumat Müdürü
  900 kuruşCalculated age 42
  Entry & evidence →[1]
12
1883/84 (AH 1301)
Kütahya / Place not recorded
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded
1. Kütahya
  Rüsumat Müdürü
  900 kuruşCalculated age 43
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Place not recorded
  Infisal
  Calculated age 43
  Entry & evidence →[1]
13
1884/85 (AH 1302)
Kozan
Not yet located on the map: Kozan
1. Tahrirat müdürü
  1,500 kuruşCalculated age 44
  Entry & evidence →[1]
14
1889/90 (AH 1307)
Place not recorded
Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded
1. Vefat
  Calculated age 49
  Entry & evidence →[1]

2 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.

Rüsûmat müdüriyeti ambar kâtibi · İskenderun · Undated · 443 kuruş Entry & evidence → Source [1]
Tütün fabrikalarında görev; unvan belirtilmemiş · Halep birinci ve ikinci Tütün fabrikaları · Undated Entry & evidence → Source [1]

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

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Amounts are nominal monthly kuruş in years with a recorded salary. Gaps are left blank; values are not adjusted for prices. Explicitly unpaid zero entries remain in the chronology and are omitted from logarithmic salary plots.

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Monthly nominal kuruş. “Paid less” is the share of other officials in the same-year annual-entry sample with lower recorded pay; N is official-year observations.
AH year	Official rate	Sample median	Sample p10 to p90	Paid less	N
1867/68 (AH 1284)	375	458	150 to 2,500	40.8%	435
1868/69 (AH 1285)	490	475	150 to 3,000	51.6%	505
1869/70 (AH 1286)	490	400	150 to 2,250	54.4%	609
1870/71 (AH 1287)	500	400	150 to 2,000	54.9%	649
1871/72 (AH 1288)	550	420.5	125 to 2,375	61.6%	712
1872/73 (AH 1289)	550	450	140 to 2,350	60.1%	736
1873/74 (AH 1290)	550	405	130 to 2,200	61.2%	805
1874/75 (AH 1291)	550	450	150 to 1,800	61.5%	882
1875/76 (AH 1292)	600	450	150 to 2,000	63.4%	976
1876/77 (AH 1293)	600	420	150 to 2,000	64.1%	1102
1877/78 (AH 1294)	600	450	150 to 1,800	63.8%	1160
1878 (AH 1295)	600	450	150 to 2,000	64.3%	1196
1878/79 (AH 1296)	600	400	150 to 2,000	63.5%	1328
1879/80 (AH 1297)	600	400	180 to 1,800	65.7%	1534
1880/81 (AH 1298)	800	400	160 to 1,500	77.8%	1448
1881/82 (AH 1299)	1,000	400	150 to 1,500	81.5%	1489
1882/83 (AH 1300)	1,000	400	150 to 1,400	81.9%	1655
1883/84 (AH 1301)	900	400	150 to 1,400	81.1%	1720
1884/85 (AH 1302)	1,500	400	150 to 1,500	89.6%	1748

Career patterns and pay

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Where the career is recorded

Distinct AH years with career entries

Hama6
1875 to 1880 (AH 1292 to 1297)
İskenderun4
1867 to 1871 (AH 1284 to 1287)
Suriye4
1871 to 1875 (AH 1288 to 1291)
Gelibolu3
1880 to 1883 (AH 1298 to 1300)
Gaziantep (Antep)2
1870 to 1872 (AH 1287 to 1288)
Kütahya2
1882 to 1884 (AH 1300 to 1301)

The six most recorded places. Gaps do not count as service. One year can have entries in several places.

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate

Hama540 to 600
İskenderun375 to 490
Suriye550
Gelibolu800 to 1,000
Gaziantep (Antep)475 to 500
Kütahya900

Six places with the most recorded career years. 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

Rüsumat Memuru6
1875 to 1880 (AH 1292 to 1297)
Rüsûmat müdüriyeti görevi4
1871 to 1875 (AH 1288 to 1291)
Rüsumat Müdürü4
1880 to 1884 (AH 1298 to 1301)
Rüsûmat müdüriyeti tahrirat kâtibi refiki3
1868 to 1871 (AH 1285 to 1287)
Rüsûmat müdüriyeti başkâtibi2
1870 to 1872 (AH 1287 to 1288)
Infisal1
1883/84 (AH 1301)

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

Kilis71 other officialsHasan Rıza Efendi born 1839/40 (AH 1255); highest salary 2,375 kuruş
Hama6 other officialsHacı Mehmet Nuri Efendi 6 shared years; highest salary 700 kuruş
1867/68 (AH 1284)85 other officialsVeliyyüddin Efendi first entry in Payas; highest salary 600 kuruş

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Education and personal record

Schooling Sıbyan mektebi; medrese^[source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

Arabic · Kitâbet^[source]
Turkish · Kitâbet^[source]

Honours and other personal details

Judicial record indicator (recorded code): 0 (recorded code)^[source]
Judicial record as worded: 0 (recorded code)^[source]

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Sources and evidence

Sicili Ahval kayıtlarına göre Kilisli memurlar
MEHMET YILMAZ · 2022 · Pages 20, 21
DH. SAİDd. 1/400

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