Mehmet Arif Efendi
Mehmet Arif Efendi was born in Halep in AH 1304. Recorded schooling includes 7 years at Rusdiye Mektebi. First work is recorded in Halep in AH 1323 (19 AH years after the recorded birth year). The only surviving annual entry is AH 1325 with Muhabere Memuru in Akabetus sam (600 kuruş monthly). Recorded language competency: Turkish: Kitabet (writing); French: Kitabet (writing).
Life and career
1 recorded AH year · 1 annual entry
Life and career stages
Recorded AH years- AH 1304
- AH 1323Birth-year difference: 19 AH years
- AH 1325Birth-year difference: 21 AH years
Each stage retains its recorded place and title. Annual stages group only consecutive years with the same title and place; they do not prove continuous tenure. Birth-year differences compare AH year numbers; they are not exact ages or birthdays.
Assigned salary in the annual career
Monthly kuruş · AHMuhabere Memuru · akabetus sam · 600 kuruş monthly
First work is separately recorded at AH 1323 in Halep. The first-salary field is 600 kuruş; it is not a dated point on this curve.
AH 1325 · 1907 label
One annual entry survives; there is no salary trajectory to draw.
Places in this record
◆ Birthplace■ First work● Annual recordRing: multiple relations
Every recorded locality remains visible in the key. Hollow markers show candidate coordinates; these are not resolved locations. Overlapping markers are offset for legibility; a small anchor and leader retain the source coordinate. Coastlines provide modern geographic context.
How to read the dates, birth-year differences and salaries
AH years are the ordering clock. Birth-year differences subtract uncontested AH birth and event year numbers; they are not exact ages or birthdays. Separately recorded first-job age fields can use a different or unresolved convention and are not substituted into this calculation. Gregorian years are stored dataset labels. The first-work field may concern apprenticeship, paid instruction or earlier state service, and does not establish the beginning of PT service.
Salaries are monthly nominal assigned amounts, not confirmed cash disbursements. Differences between annual entries are not dated promotions or transfers. A source status such as Vefat is not a formal death date; no death locality is assigned from a last work place.
Preparation
- School / programme
- Rusdiye Mektebi
- Schooling duration
- 7 source-recorded years
- Apprenticeship
- 2 source-recorded years
- Qualification indicator
- 1
- Telegraph school indicator
- 0
- Father’s occupation
- Not recorded
- Recorded birth year
- AH 1304
- Religion wording
- Musluman
- Nationality wording
- Turkish
Schooling years are a duration/classification, not an acquisition date. Education and training dates await source-linked structured records; no dates are inferred here. No completion date is inferred from a schooling duration.
First-work and entry-pay fields
- First-work source date
- AH 1323 · 1905 label
- Place
- Halep
- First-salary field
- 600 kuruş
- Source
- recovered
The first-work date may concern apprenticeship, paid instruction or earlier state service. The first-salary amount is a separate inherited field; their presence together does not prove that payment began on this date. Neither is the first positive annual salary observation.
Recorded language repertoire
2 fields contain historical terms.
- Turkish
- Kitabet (writing)
- French
- Kitabet (writing)
Only recorded terms are shown. Omitted language fields mean not recorded; they do not establish that the official lacked a language. Original competency wording is preserved; Kitabet (writing), Tekellum (speaking) and Asina (familiarity) are cautious historical glosses, not modern proficiency levels. Workbook language notes remain separately source-linked in the additional evidence. Read the terminology note.
Further biographical evidence
Source wording and status assertions
Occupation category (September 2025 detailed personnel edition)
- Communication and Telegraph
Inspect the additional source wording, language notes and original codes
These separately linked fields add source wording and raw codes without replacing the annual career. Original rank, decoration and merit-code labels remain unverified; zero is retained literally. Read about the sources.
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| Recorded field | Original value | Source locator |
|---|---|---|
| Occupation category (September 2025 detailed personnel edition)Recorded source wording | Communication and Telegraph | september-occupation · occupation_cat source lines 38301 Recorded source-year values: 1325 |
| Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wording | Muhabere Memuru | eda-memur · currentjob source lines 39567 Recorded source-year values: 1325 |
| Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wording | Muhabere Memuru | eda-memureski · currentjob source lines 39567 Recorded source-year values: 1325 |
| Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict | 0 | october10-personnel · criminal AH 1325 · AH source lines 65839 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi AH 1325 · AH source lines 39567 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memur · criminal AH 1325 · AH source lines 39567 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi AH 1325 · AH source lines 39567 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memureski · criminal AH 1325 · AH source lines 39567 |
| Criminal record (coded level)Unverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | october10-personnel · criminal_record_times AH 1325 · AH source lines 65839 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi AH 1325 · AH source lines 38301 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | september-occupation · criminal AH 1325 · AH source lines 38301 |
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Every displayed annual entry, in source / Hijri-year order. This table is the accessible alternative to the connected timeline and charts.
| Source year | Gregorian label | Title | Locality wording | Monthly kuruş | Source line |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1907 | Muhabere MemuruOriginal: muhabere memuru | akabetus sam | 600 | recovered line 36139 |
- AH 1325 · 1907 label
Muhabere Memuru
Original title: muhabere memuru
600 kuruş / monthrecovered · source line 36139
Evidence & edition
Coded extracts, preserved source differences
Collection membership
- Website edition
- ottoman-bureaucracy-2026-10-11-v1-84d4f7f2230a
- Source editions
- older, september, recovered
- Annual display source
- Recovered merged personnel extract
- Paper sample
- Outside the paper sample
- Other archival labels
- No different label recorded
- Geography
- Recorded place assertions; map linkage is separately reported
How to read this dossier
The website joins the exact archival identity across editions. Names are attributes and never merge records. No annual gap is filled from another extract. Geographic alternatives, missing values and differences remain evidence rather than silent corrections.
All substantive source assertions (78)
| Field | Original stored value | Source field and lines |
|---|---|---|
| birthH | 1304 | recovered · dobirth source lines 36139 |
| birthPlace | halep | recovered · birthplace source lines 36139 |
| birthPlace | halep | recovered · birth_place source lines 36139 |
| birthProvince | halep | recovered · birth_vilayet source lines 36139 |
| school | Rusdiye Mektebi | recovered · school_type source lines 36139 |
| schoolingYears | 7 | recovered · education_year source lines 36139 |
| schoolingYears | 7 | recovered · school_year source lines 36139 |
| apprenticeshipYears | 2 | recovered · mulazemet source lines 36139 |
| qualification | 1 | recovered · qualification source lines 36139 |
| derivedQualificationFlag | 1 | recovered · has_qualification source lines 36139 |
| telegraphSchool | 0 | recovered · telgraf source lines 36139 |
| religion | Musluman | recovered · religion source lines 36139 |
| nationality | Turkish | recovered · nationality source lines 36139 |
| firstWorkH | 1323 | recovered · ilk_ise_baslangic_yili source lines 36139 |
| firstWorkG | 1905 | recovered · firstjobyear source lines 36139 |
| firstWorkPlace | Halep | recovered · firstjob_place source lines 36139 |
| firstWorkSalary | 600 | recovered · firstjob_wage source lines 36139 |
| birthLatitude | 36.21319800000048 | recovered · lat_birth_place source lines 36139 |
| birthLongitude | 37.13361599999941 | recovered · lon_birth_place source lines 36139 |
| name | Mehmet Arif Efendi | september · İsim source lines 38301 |
| birthH | 1304 | september · dobirth source lines 38301 |
| birthPlace | halep | september · birthplace source lines 38301 |
| birthProvince | halep | september · birth_vilayet source lines 38301 |
| school | rusdiye mektebi | september · school_type source lines 38301 |
| schoolingYears | 7 | september · education_year source lines 38301 |
| apprenticeshipYears | 2 | september · mulazemet source lines 38301 |
| apprenticeshipYears | 2 | september · MülazemetSüresi source lines 38301 |
| qualification | 1 | september · qualification source lines 38301 |
| telegraphSchool | 0 | september · telegraph_school source lines 38301 |
| religion | musluman | september · religion source lines 38301 |
| nationality | turkish | september · nationality source lines 38301 |
| firstWorkH | 1323 | september · firstjob_year source lines 38301 |
| firstWorkPlace | halep | september · firstjob_place source lines 38301 |
| firstWorkSalary | 600 | september · firstjob_wage source lines 38301 |
| birthLatitude | 36.21319800000048 | september · lat_birth_place source lines 38301 |
| birthLongitude | 37.13361599999941 | september · lon_birth_place source lines 38301 |
| language:Turkish | Kitabet | september · lang_turkish source lines 38301 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Turkish | 3 | september · lang_turkish2 source lines 38301 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Arabic | 0 | september · lang_arabic2 source lines 38301 |
| language:French | Kitabet | september · lang_french source lines 38301 |
| derivedLanguageCode:French | 2 | september · lang_french2 source lines 38301 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Persian | 0 | september · lang_persian2 source lines 38301 |
| derivedLanguageCode:English | 0 | september · lang_english2 source lines 38301 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Italian | 0 | september · lang_italian2 source lines 38301 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Armenian | 0 | september · lang_armenian2 source lines 38301 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Greek | 0 | september · lang_greek2 source lines 38301 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Rum | 0 | september · lang_rum2 source lines 38301 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian | 0 | september · lang_bulgarian2 source lines 38301 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Russian | 0 | september · lang_russian2 source lines 38301 |
| name | Mehmet Arif Efendi | older · İsim source lines 44616 |
| birthH | 1304 | older · dobirth source lines 44616 |
| birthPlace | halep | older · birthplace source lines 44616 |
| birthProvince | halep | older · birth_vilayet source lines 44616 |
| school | rusdiye mektebi | older · school_type source lines 44616 |
| schoolingYears | 7 | older · education_year source lines 44616 |
| apprenticeshipYears | 2 | older · MülazemetSüresi source lines 44616 |
| qualification | 1 | older · qualification source lines 44616 |
| telegraphSchool | 0 | older · telgraph_school source lines 44616 |
| religion | musluman | older · religion source lines 44616 |
| nationality | turkish | older · nationality source lines 44616 |
| firstWorkH | 1323 | older · firstjob_year source lines 44616 |
| firstWorkPlace | halep | older · firstjob_place source lines 44616 |
| firstWorkSalary | 600 | older · firstjob_wage source lines 44616 |
| birthLatitude | 36.21319800000048 | older · lat_birth_place source lines 44616 |
| birthLongitude | 37.13361599999941 | older · lon_birth_place source lines 44616 |
| language:Turkish | Kitabet | older · lang_turkish source lines 44616 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Turkish | 3 | older · lang_turkish2 source lines 44616 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Arabic | 0 | older · lang_arabic2 source lines 44616 |
| language:French | Kitabet | older · lang_french source lines 44616 |
| derivedLanguageCode:French | 2 | older · lang_french2 source lines 44616 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Persian | 0 | older · lang_persian2 source lines 44616 |
| derivedLanguageCode:English | 0 | older · lang_english2 source lines 44616 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Italian | 0 | older · lang_italian2 source lines 44616 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Armenian | 0 | older · lang_armenian2 source lines 44616 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Greek | 0 | older · lang_greek2 source lines 44616 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Rum | 0 | older · lang_rum2 source lines 44616 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian | 0 | older · lang_bulgarian2 source lines 44616 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Russian | 0 | older · lang_russian2 source lines 44616 |
Original stored values
These are values in the inherited coded extracts. They are not a verified transcription of the original register. Source spelling and differences are preserved.
Cite this record
Ottoman Bureaucracy, “Mehmet Arif Efendi”, archival reference 158-26-47, edition ottoman-bureaucracy-2026-10-11-v1-84d4f7f2230a, https://ottomanbureaucracy.com/people/p-48deb656b3e796a0/.
Stable archival identity: /people/p-48deb656b3e796a0/. The edition identifies the data build separately from the stable person address. Historical records may be revised in a later edition.