Mehmed Rıfat Bey
Born 1859/60 (AH 1276) · Baghdad (Bağdat) · Dated entries 1882 to 1885 (AH 1300 to 1302)
Languages French, Turkish
The career, year by year
Read every yearEach mark opens a dated entry. Colour identifies the place; blank years remain gaps.
Places and reading notes
- Bender Buşehr
- İsfahan
- Kirmanşah
3 distinct dated years. Stacked marks retain different posts, rates or accounts without assigning an order within that year. Grey marks have no service place.
The life
Mehmed Rıfat Bey was born in Baghdad (Bağdat) in 1859/60 (AH 1276). Schooling included Özel muallim. The language repertoire included French and Turkish. [source]
Service began in Bender Buşehr in 1882/83 (AH 1300). Dated career entries span 1882/83 (AH 1300) to 1884/85 (AH 1302) across 3 AH years, beginning with Şehbender. More than one post or place appears in 2 of those years. Place names include Bender Buşehr, İsfahan and Kirmanşah. [1]
Monthly pay went from 2,000 kuruş in 1882/83 (AH 1300) to 3,000 kuruş in 1884/85 (AH 1302); the highest recorded monthly rate is 3,000 kuruş in 1884/85 (AH 1302). [1]
Life and career
Follow 4 dated stages in the life. Choose a year in the life ribbon below the map. Places and earlier connections accumulate as you advance; All stops reveals the overview.
Stage 1 of 4 · Baghdad (Bağdat)
How to read this map
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.
3 stops kept as text without a verified locality point. No provincial capital is substituted.
1 1859/60 (AH 1276)
Baghdad (Bağdat)
Birth
2 1882/83 (AH 1300)
Bender Buşehr
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Bender Buşehr
First work as recorded
Calculated age 24
Şehbender
2,000 kuruşCalculated age 24
3 1883/84 (AH 1301)
Bender Buşehr / İsfahan
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Bender Buşehr; İsfahan
4 1884/85 (AH 1302)
İsfahan / Kirmanşah
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: İsfahan; Kirmanşah
İsfahan
Şehbender
2,000 kuruşCalculated age 26
Continuing service as described
İsfahan
Şehbender (Nakil)
Calculated age 26
Recorded service ending
Kirmanşah
Başşehbender
3,000 kuruşCalculated age 26
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.
- Başşehbender · Bakü · 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
Dated AH salary records of the currently selected officials; undated evidence remains in the chronology.
Use Enter, Space or ← / → on a salary point, or click the percentile panel to choose the nearest observed AH year. All yearly values appear below.
Marks show observed AH years only; gaps remain blank and no line implies continuous pay or service. The reference range includes the focal official when they are in the sample.
How the comparison is calculated
One highest recorded salary per official and AH year. Same-year medians, nearest-rank 10th and 90th percentiles, and relative standing are recomputed from the selected collection.
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
| AH year | Official rate | Sample median | Sample p10 to p90 | Paid less | N |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1882/83 (AH 1300) | 2,000 | 400 | 150 to 1,400 | 93.0% | 1655 |
| 1883/84 (AH 1301) | 2,000 | 400 | 150 to 1,400 | 93.5% | 1720 |
| 1884/85 (AH 1302) | 3,000 | 400 | 150 to 1,500 | 95.8% | 1748 |
Career patterns and pay
Recorded pay over the career
Kuruş · dated amountsSelect 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 entriesGaps do not count as service. One year can have entries in several places.
Amounts recorded by place
Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate- Bender Buşehr2,000
- İsfahan2,000
- Kirmanşah3,000
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 titleThe 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
- Baghdad (Bağdat)25 other officialsMehmed Rifat Bey born 1861/62 (AH 1278); highest salary 1,500 kuruş
- 1882/83 (AH 1300)236 other officialsABDULKADİR BEG first annual entry 1882/83 (AH 1300); highest salary 400 kuruş
Education and personal record
Schooling Özel muallim [source]
All personal fields and their sources
Personal details
Education and languages
First work and apprenticeship
- Age at first service
- 24 [source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
- First work place
- Bender Buşehr [source]
- First-salary field
- 2000 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
- 1882/83 (AH 1300) [source]
Other recorded details
Sources and evidence
- II. Abdülhamid dönemi sicil dosyalarına göre şehbenderler (1876-1909)
BERİVAN SULTAN DUMAN · 2024 · Pages 157
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Yearly entries and their source passages · 3 dated AH years
Annual salary study and register readings
The separate annual salary reference account has 7 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.