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Dedicated toCarter V. Findley

MUSTAFA FAĠK EFENDĠ

Born 1823/24 (AH 1239) · Gaziantep (Antep) · Dated entries 1845 to 1895 (AH 1261 to 1312)

Languages Arabic, Persian, Turkish

Archival reference BOA, DH. SAĠD. d, 4/52

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 10 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.

1Gaziantep (Antep)Sidon (Sayda)Mosul (Musul)KastamonuAdana
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 10 · Gaziantep (Antep)

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.

5 stops kept as text without a verified locality point. No provincial capital is substituted.

  1. 1

    1823/24 (AH 1239)

    Gaziantep (Antep)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1845 (AH 1261)

    Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 22

    2. 5. Ordu-yu Hümâyûn Meclisi başkâtibi

      1,000 kuruşCalculated age 22

  3. 3

    1845/46 (AH 1262) · 26 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1262, 1263, 1264, 1265, 1266, 1267, 1268, 1269, 1270, 1271, 1272, 1273, 1274, 1275, 1276, 1277, 1278, 1279, 1280, 1281, 1282, 1283, 1284, 1285, 1286, 1287. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. 5. Ordu-yu Hümâyûn Meclisi başkâtibi

      1,000 kuruşCalculated age 23

      Continuing service as described

    2. 5. Ordu-yu Hümâyûn tahrirat müdürü

      3,000 kuruşCalculated age 48

      Continuing service as described

    All 26 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1871/72 (AH 1288)

    Sidon (Sayda)

    1. Sayda mutasarrıfı

      Calculated age 49

  5. 5

    1872/73 (AH 1289)

    Yemen

    Not yet located on the map: Yemen

    1. Yemen Vilayeti mektupçusu (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 50

  6. 6

    1875/76 (AH 1292)

    Cebel-i Arabiye

    Not yet located on the map: Cebel-i Arabiye

    1. Cebel-i Arabiye mutasarrıfı

      6,500 kuruşCalculated age 53

  7. 7

    1885/86 (AH 1303)

    Place not recorded

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Umûr-ı Nafia Komisyonu azası

      5,000 kuruşCalculated age 64

  8. 8

    1887/88 (AH 1305)

    Mosul (Musul)

    1. Musul valisi

      15,000 kuruşCalculated age 66

  9. 9

    1891/92 (AH 1309) · 3 recorded years

    Kastamonu

    AH entries: 1309, 1310, 1311. Gaps remain open.

    1. Kastamonu valisi

      15,000 kuruşCalculated age 70

    2. Kastamonu valisi

      15,000 kuruşCalculated age 72

      Continuing service as described

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  10. 10

    1894/95 (AH 1312)

    Kastamonu / Adana

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Kastamonu

      Kastamonu valisi

      15,000 kuruşCalculated age 73

      Continuing service as described

    2. Adana

      Adana valisi

      17,000 kuruşCalculated age 73

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.

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

Current collection salary comparison

Dated AH salary records of the currently selected officials; undated evidence remains in the chronology.

Monthly rate and same-year salariesNominal monthly kuruş · log scale · annual entries only
Relative pay percentileShare of other annual-entry officials paid less

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
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 yearOfficial rateSample medianSample p10 to p90Paid lessN
1845 (AH 1261)1,00080025 to 10,00061.1%19
1845/46 (AH 1262)1,00030025 to 10,00073.7%20
1846/47 (AH 1263)3,00030030 to 10,00076.2%22
1847/48 (AH 1264)3,000400100 to 10,00075.0%33
1848/49 (AH 1265)3,00030050 to 3,50081.3%33
1849/50 (AH 1266)3,00035050 to 10,00080.7%32
1850/51 (AH 1267)3,000400100 to 10,00079.4%35
1851/52 (AH 1268)3,00050050 to 3,00087.5%41
1852/53 (AH 1269)3,000400100 to 5,00085.1%48
1853/54 (AH 1270)3,000400100 to 3,00088.9%64
1854/55 (AH 1271)3,000400100 to 5,00084.9%67
1855/56 (AH 1272)3,000400100 to 5,00084.4%65
1856/57 (AH 1273)3,000400100 to 5,00085.3%76
1857/58 (AH 1274)3,000400100 to 3,00088.4%96
1858/59 (AH 1275)3,000500150 to 5,00086.5%105
1859/60 (AH 1276)3,000500150 to 3,35088.2%111
1860/61 (AH 1277)3,000500150 to 3,00088.0%134
1861/62 (AH 1278)3,000500150 to 3,00089.4%161
1862/63 (AH 1279)3,000400140 to 3,00089.3%197
1863/64 (AH 1280)3,000475125 to 3,00088.3%232
1864/65 (AH 1281)3,000400125 to 3,00089.7%253
1865/66 (AH 1282)3,000400150 to 2,00091.8%341
1866/67 (AH 1283)3,000400146 to 2,00093.2%399
1867/68 (AH 1284)3,000458150 to 2,50090.5%435
1868/69 (AH 1285)3,000475150 to 3,00089.9%505
1869/70 (AH 1286)3,000400150 to 2,25091.9%609
1870/71 (AH 1287)3,000400150 to 2,00092.6%649
1875/76 (AH 1292)6,500450150 to 2,00096.4%976
1885/86 (AH 1303)5,000400150 to 1,50097.3%1787
1887/88 (AH 1305)15,000400150 to 1,50099.2%1762
1891/92 (AH 1309)15,000400140 to 1,60099.1%1927
1892/93 (AH 1310)15,000400135 to 1,50099.3%1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)15,000400140 to 1,40099.2%1929
1894/95 (AH 1312)17,000400140 to 1,50099.2%2004

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. 1891 to 1895 (AH 1309 to 1312)
  2. 1894/95 (AH 1312)
  3. Cebel-i Arabiye1
    1875/76 (AH 1292)
  4. 1887/88 (AH 1305)
  5. 1871/72 (AH 1288)

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. Kastamonu15,000
  2. Adana17,000
  3. Cebel-i Arabiye6,500

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. 1846 to 1871 (AH 1263 to 1287)
  2. 1891 to 1895 (AH 1309 to 1312)
  3. 1845 to 1846 (AH 1261 to 1262)
  4. 1894/95 (AH 1312)
  5. 1875/76 (AH 1292)
  6. 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.

Related officials in the salary reference

All related groups and salary ranks

Education and personal record

Qualification Formal qualification recorded; İcazetname; tekmîl-i nesh [1]

Schooling Medrese [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

Honours and other personal details

Judicial record indicator (recorded code)
0 (recorded code) [source]
Judicial record as worded
0 (recorded code) [source]
All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl Defterlerine göre Gaziantepli memurlar

    EDA CEREN ERKABALCI · 2019 · Pages 123, 124

    BOA, DH. SAĠD. d, 4/52.; 258 BOA, DH. SAĠD. d, 4/52.

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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 · 36 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 37 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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