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Mehmed Tahir Efendi

Complete career chronology

Life and career

Appointments and amounts remain attached to their sources. Stated ages are labelled; other ages are calculated from AH year labels. Entries in one year can describe different appointments or rates; gaps remain open.

  1. 1910/11 (AH 1328)Evkaf tahsildarıJeddah (Cidde) · 400 kuruş
    1. Evkaf tahsildarı

      Jeddah (Cidde) · Calculated age 28 · 400 kuruş

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Recorded pay

Kuruş · dated amounts. Green: post entries. Purple: retirement. Grey: other career status.

02004001910/11AH 13281910/11 (AH 1328) · Evkaf tahsildarı · Jeddah (Cidde) · age 28 · 400 kuruş

All personal fields and their sources

Personal details

Birthplace
Mekke [source]
Birth province
Hicaz [source]
Birth year
1882/83 (AH 1300) [source]
Archive references
BOA. DH. SAĠD. d, nr. 181/315, s.315 [1]

Education and languages

Arabic
Tekellüm ve kitâbet [source]
Turkish
Kitâbet [source]okur yazar [1]
Qualification
Formal qualification recorded [source]Şehadetname; Mekke selinde zayi [1]Original wording is retained alongside any qualification indicator.
Education
Cidde Sancağı ibtidai ve rüşdiye mektepleri [source]
Education level equivalent
7 [source]The coded level equivalent is not the number of years this official attended school.

First work and apprenticeship

Age at first service
28 [source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First work place
Cidde [source]
First-salary field
400 kuruş (personal first-salary field) [source]A personal first-salary field does not by itself establish the pay of a particular career event.
First work year
1910/11 (AH 1328) [source]

Documentary details and source passages

These accounts retain their own wording and dates. Passages can include family, education, languages, honours and judicial narratives beyond the summary fields. A quotation is evidence from its named account; it does not settle differences between sources.

Documentary sources

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

    BEYHAN KACIROĞLU · 2021 · Pages 233

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