Mehmed Ali Riyâzi Efendi

Born 1840/41 (AH 1256) · Medina (Medine) · Dated entries 1863 to 1907 (AH 1280 to 1324)

Languages Arabic, Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAĠD. d, nr.67/173 s.173

The career, year by year

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The life

Mehmed Ali Riyâzi Efendi was born in Medina (Medine) in 1840/41 (AH 1256). Schooling included Sıbyan mektebi; özel muallim. The language repertoire included Arabic and Turkish.^[1]

The first place of work was Medina (Medine). Dated career entries span 1863/64 (AH 1280) to 1904/05 (AH 1322) across 38 AH years, from Medina (Medine) to Medina (Medine), beginning with Harem-i Şerif tamirat kâtibi and ending with entries for Hazret-i Nebevî Hazinesi Rûznâmçe Kalemi memuru. More than one post or place appears in 1 of those years. Place names include Medina (Medine) and Yanbu (Yenbuülbahr).^[1]

Monthly pay went from 100 kuruş in 1868/69 (AH 1285) to 320 kuruş in 1904/05 (AH 1322); the highest recorded monthly rate is 450 kuruş in 1874/75 (AH 1291). Death is recorded in 1906/07 (AH 1324).^[1]

Personal record

Birth: Medina (Medine) · 1840/41 (AH 1256)^[source]
Education: Sıbyan mektebi; özel muallim^[source]
First work: Medina (Medine)^[source]
Death recorded: 1906/07 (AH 1324)^[1]This is the year on a career record, not an exact date of death.

Career in numbers

39
Dated AH years: 2
Career place names: 3
Entries without a resolved year: 37
Salary years: 100 → 320
Annual series: first → last kuruş/month: 450
Peak in annual series, kuruş/month: 36.6%
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. 1868/69 (AH 1285) to 1904/05 (AH 1322); nominal rates in observed years.
Peak in annual series, kuruş/month. 1874/75 (AH 1291)
Peers paid less in last year. Share of other officials in the annual salary reference with lower pay in 1904/05 (AH 1322).

Life and career

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Stage 1 of 8 · Medina (Medine)

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1
1840/41 (AH 1256)
Medina (Medine)
1. Birth
  Personal record & evidence →
2
1863/64 (AH 1280)
Medina (Medine)
1. Harem-i Şerif tamirat kâtibi
  Calculated age 24
  Entry & evidence →[1]
3
1868/69 (AH 1285) · 6 recorded years
Medina (Medine)
AH entries: 1285, 1286, 1287, 1288, 1289, 1290. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
1. Hazret-i Nebevî Hazinesi Rûznâmçe Kalemi memuru
  50 kuruşCalculated age 29
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Hazret-i Nebevî Hazinesi Rûznâmçe Kalemi memuru
  125 kuruşCalculated age 34
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 8 recorded entries in this stage →
4
1874/75 (AH 1291) · 2 recorded years
Yanbu (Yenbuülbahr)
AH entries: 1291, 1292. Gaps remain open.
1. Medine cerâye buğdayı şevne emini
  450 kuruşCalculated age 35
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Medine cerâye buğdayı şevne emini
  450 kuruşCalculated age 36
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
5
1876/77 (AH 1293)
Medina (Medine)
1. Harem-i Şerif Hazret-i Nebevî ambarcısı
  416 kuruşCalculated age 37
  Entry & evidence →[1]
6
1877/78 (AH 1294)
Medina (Medine) / Yanbu (Yenbuülbahr)
Within-year entry order unresolved
1. Medina (Medine)
  Harem-i Şerif Hazret-i Nebevî ambarcısı
  416 kuruşCalculated age 38
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Yanbu (Yenbuülbahr)
  Medine cerâye buğdayı şevne emini
  416 kuruşCalculated age 38
  Entry & evidence →[1]
7
1878/79 (AH 1296) · 27 recorded years
Medina (Medine)
AH entries: 1296, 1297, 1298, 1299, 1300, 1301, 1302, 1303, 1304, 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309, 1310, 1311, 1312, 1313, 1314, 1315, 1316, 1317, 1318, 1319, 1320, 1321, 1322. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
1. Hazret-i Nebevî Hazinesi Rûznâmçe Kalemi memuru
  108 kuruşCalculated age 40
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Hazret-i Nebevî Hazinesi Rûznâmçe Kalemi memuru
  320 kuruşCalculated age 66
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 33 recorded entries in this stage →
8
1906/07 (AH 1324)
Place not recorded
Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded
1. Vefat
  Calculated age 68
  Entry & evidence →[1]

4 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.

Hazret-i Nebevî Hazinesi Rûznâmçe Kalemi mülâzımı · Medina (Medine) · Undated Entry & evidence → Source [1]
Medine cerâye buğdayı şevne emini (İnfisal) · Yanbu (Yenbuülbahr) · Undated Entry & evidence → Source [1]
Hazret-i Nebevî Hazinesi Rûznâmçe Kalemi memuru · Medina (Medine) · Undated Entry & evidence → Source [1]
First work as recorded · Medina (Medine) · Year not recorded

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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Relative pay percentileShare of other annual-entry officials paid less

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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.

View the yearly values

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
1868/69 (AH 1285)	100	475	150 to 3,000	5.0%	505
1869/70 (AH 1286)	100	400	150 to 2,250	5.9%	609
1870/71 (AH 1287)	100	400	150 to 2,000	5.1%	649
1871/72 (AH 1288)	100	420.5	125 to 2,375	6.6%	712
1872/73 (AH 1289)	100	450	140 to 2,350	6.4%	736
1873/74 (AH 1290)	125	405	130 to 2,200	9.2%	805
1874/75 (AH 1291)	450	450	150 to 1,800	49.4%	882
1875/76 (AH 1292)	450	450	150 to 2,000	48.8%	976
1876/77 (AH 1293)	416	420	150 to 2,000	49.7%	1102
1877/78 (AH 1294)	416	450	150 to 1,800	49.4%	1160
1878/79 (AH 1296)	108	400	150 to 2,000	5.7%	1328
1879/80 (AH 1297)	108	400	180 to 1,800	5.5%	1534
1880/81 (AH 1298)	168	400	160 to 1,500	10.6%	1448
1881/82 (AH 1299)	168	400	150 to 1,500	12.0%	1489
1882/83 (AH 1300)	168	400	150 to 1,400	11.1%	1655
1883/84 (AH 1301)	199.75	400	150 to 1,400	12.4%	1720
1884/85 (AH 1302)	199.75	400	150 to 1,500	12.7%	1748
1885/86 (AH 1303)	199.75	400	150 to 1,500	13.2%	1787
1886/87 (AH 1304)	199.75	400	150 to 1,500	13.2%	1725
1887/88 (AH 1305)	199.75	400	150 to 1,500	14.3%	1762
1888/89 (AH 1306)	199.75	400	135 to 1,500	15.4%	1797
1889/90 (AH 1307)	199.75	400	130 to 1,500	15.2%	1874
1890/91 (AH 1308)	199.75	400	125 to 1,500	15.7%	1896
1891/92 (AH 1309)	199.75	400	140 to 1,600	14.8%	1927
1892/93 (AH 1310)	199.75	400	135 to 1,500	15.0%	1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)	199.75	400	140 to 1,400	14.0%	1929
1894/95 (AH 1312)	211.75	400	140 to 1,500	19.9%	2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)	211.75	400	140 to 1,500	19.0%	1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)	211.75	450	150 to 1,575	16.9%	2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)	211.75	400	140 to 1,425	19.1%	1891
1898/99 (AH 1316)	226.75	400	144 to 1,400	19.6%	1844
1899/1900 (AH 1317)	270	400	140 to 1,440	27.8%	1821
1900/01 (AH 1318)	270	400	140 to 1,500	28.0%	1761
1901/02 (AH 1319)	270	400	150 to 1,520	27.5%	1666
1902/03 (AH 1320)	300	400	150 to 1,500	28.8%	1627
1903/04 (AH 1321)	300	405	150 to 1,450	29.0%	1578
1904/05 (AH 1322)	320	400	135 to 1,500	36.6%	1493

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Where the career is recorded

Distinct AH years with career entries

Medina (Medine)36
1863 to 1905 (AH 1280 to 1322)
Yanbu (Yenbuülbahr)3
1874 to 1878 (AH 1291 to 1294)

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Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate

Medina (Medine)50 to 416
Yanbu (Yenbuülbahr)416 to 450

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

Hazret-i Nebevî Hazinesi Rûznâmçe Kalemi memuru33
1868 to 1905 (AH 1285 to 1322)
Medine cerâye buğdayı şevne emini3
1874 to 1878 (AH 1291 to 1294)
Harem-i Şerif Hazret-i Nebevî ambarcısı2
1876 to 1878 (AH 1293 to 1294)
Harem-i Şerif tamirat kâtibi1
1863/64 (AH 1280)

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

Medina (Medine)63 other officialsAbdulaziz Efendi born 1842/43 (AH 1258); highest salary 9,500 kuruş
Medina (Medine)52 other officialsEsseyid Mehmed Necib Efendi 35 shared years; highest salary 240.75 kuruş
1863/64 (AH 1280)71 other officialsAndon Fakaro Efendi first entry in Yozgat; highest salary 2,350 kuruş

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Education and personal record

Schooling Sıbyan mektebi; özel muallim^[source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

Arabic · Kitâbetokuryazar^[1]
Turkish · Kitâbetokuryazar^[1]

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Sources and evidence

Sicil-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Osmanlı Devletinde görev yapan hicazlı devlet memurları
BEYHAN KACIROĞLU · 2021 · Pages 172, 173, 174
238 BOA. DH. SAĠD. d, nr.67/173 s.173.

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