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Hafız Hacı Mehmed Emin Efendi

Born Year not recorded · Mecca (Mekke) · Dated entries 1878 to 1909 (AH 1296 to 1326)

Languages Arabic, Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAĠD. d, nr. 168/165, s.165

The career, year by year

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Each mark opens a dated entry. Colour identifies the place; blank years remain gaps.

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.

Mecca (Mekke)
● Birth○ First workB / F · year unresolved● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 4 · Hicaz

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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. 1

    1878/79 (AH 1296)

    Hicaz

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Hicaz

    1. First work as recorded

    2. Vilayet Muhasebe Kalemi memuru

      36 kuruş

  2. 2

    1879/80 (AH 1297) · 14 recorded years

    Hicaz

    AH entries: 1297, 1298, 1299, 1300, 1301, 1302, 1303, 1304, 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309, 1310. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Hicaz

    1. Vilayet Muhasebe Kalemi memuru

      36 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

    2. Vilayet Mektubî Kalemi mübeyyizi (İnfisal)

    All 23 recorded entries in this stage →

  3. 3

    1900/01 (AH 1318) · 8 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1318, 1319, 1320, 1321, 1322, 1323, 1324, 1325. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Maârif Nezareti Teftiş ve Muayene Heyeti azası

      800 kuruş

    2. Maârif Nezareti Teftiş ve Muayene Heyeti azası

      2,405 kuruş

    All 15 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1908/09 (AH 1326)

    Place not recorded / Mecca (Mekke)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Place not recorded

      Maârif Nezareti Teftiş ve Muayene Heyeti azası

      2,405 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

    2. Mecca (Mekke)

      Harem-i Şerif müdürü

      5,000 kuruş

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

3 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.

Gregorian spans accompany recorded AH years; exact dates retain their cited wording. Stated ages are labelled; other ages are calculated from AH year labels. Missing amounts remain unrecorded; zero remains zero.

Pay over time

Pay in its time

Salary comparison sample

Post and Telegraph and cross-ministry annual records; not the whole bureaucracy.

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Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts

Select 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 entries
  1. Hicaz15
    1878 to 1893 (AH 1296 to 1310)
  2. 1908/09 (AH 1326)

Gaps do not count as service. One year can have entries in several places.

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate
  1. Hicaz36 to 500

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
  1. 1879 to 1893 (AH 1297 to 1310)
  2. 1900 to 1909 (AH 1318 to 1326)
  3. 1878 to 1880 (AH 1296 to 1297)
  4. 1908/09 (AH 1326)
  5. 1887/88 (AH 1305)

The most recorded title wordings. A year may include more than one title; these counts do not establish promotions or continuous tenure.

Education and personal record

Schooling Mekke sıbyan mektepleri; hususi dersler [source]

Qualification Hafız; Menâsik-i Hacc-ı Şerîf müellifi [1]

Language skills and historical terms

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

All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

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

    BEYHAN KACIROĞLU · 2021 · Pages 125, 126

    194 BOA. DH. SAĠD. d, nr. 168/165, s.165.

Read the original source accounts · 46 source entries →

The chronology groups compatible entries for reading. Each original account remains available with its wording, dates, amounts and archival reference.

Yearly entries and their source passages · 24 dated years

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