Mehmed ġakir Efendi
Born 1855/56 (AH 1272) · Antakya · Dated entries 1881 to 1904 (AH 1299 to 1321)
Languages Arabic, Turkish
Archival references BOA.DH.SAĠD.,No:185,s.162; BOA.DH.SAİD.,No:109,s.325
The career, year by year
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The life
Mehmed ġakir Efendi was born in Antakya in 1855/56 (AH 1272), within the İslam community. The father’s occupation was Tüccar. Schooling included sıbyan; rüştiye. The language repertoire included Arabic and Turkish. [1]
Service began in Aleppo (Halep) in 1881/82 (AH 1299). Dated career entries span 1881/82 (AH 1299) to 1903/04 (AH 1321) across 23 AH years, from Aleppo (Halep) to Antakya, beginning with Rüsum-ı Sitte Seyyar Heyet-i Teftiş kâtibi and ending with entries for Düyun-ı Umumiye Müdüriyeti başkâtibi. More than one post or place appears in 6 of those years. Place names include Aleppo (Halep), Jisr al-Shughur (Cisr-i Şugur), Samandağ (Süveydiye) and Mersin and 5 other named places. [1]
Monthly pay went from 300 kuruş in 1881/82 (AH 1299) to 600 kuruş in 1903/04 (AH 1321); the highest recorded monthly rate is 600 kuruş in 1886/87 (AH 1304). [1]
Life and career
Follow 17 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 17 · Antakya
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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.
1 1855/56 (AH 1272)
Antakya
Birth
2 First work as recorded
Calculated age 27
Rüsum-ı Sitte Seyyar Heyet-i Teftiş kâtibi (İnfisal)
Calculated age 27
Recorded service ending
3 Rüsum-ı Sitte memuru
60 kuruşCalculated age 28
Rüsum-ı Sitte memuru (İnfisal)
Calculated age 28
Recorded service ending
4 1883/84 (AH 1301) · 2 recorded years
Samandağ (Süveydiye)
AH entries: 1301, 1302. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
Rüsum-ı Sitte memuru
250 kuruşCalculated age 29
istifa (İnfisal)
Calculated age 30
5 1885/86 (AH 1303)
Mersin
Düyun-ı Umumiye başkâtibi
400 kuruşCalculated age 31
6 1886/87 (AH 1304)
Mersin / Silifke
Within-year entry order unresolved
Düyun-ı Umumiye başkâtibi
Calculated age 32
Continuing service as described
Düyun-ı Umumiye merkez memuru
600 kuruşCalculated age 32
7 Düyun-ı Umumiye merkez memuru
600 kuruşCalculated age 33
Continuing service as described
Düyun-ı Umumiye merkez memuru (İnfisal)
Calculated age 33
Recorded service ending
8 1888/89 (AH 1306) · 4 recorded years
Jisr al-Shughur (Cisr-i Şugur)
AH entries: 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
Düyun-ı Umumiye memuru
400 kuruşCalculated age 34
Düyun-ı Umumiye memuru
Calculated age 37
Continuing service as described
9 1892/93 (AH 1310)
Jisr al-Shughur (Cisr-i Şugur) / Şanlıurfa (Urfa)
Within-year entry order unresolved
Jisr al-Shughur (Cisr-i Şugur)
Düyun-ı Umumiye memuru
Calculated age 38
Continuing service as described
Düyun-ı Umumiye memuru
450 kuruşCalculated age 38
10 1893/94 (AH 1311)
Şanlıurfa (Urfa)
Düyun-ı Umumiye memuru
Calculated age 39
Continuing service as described
11 1894/95 (AH 1312)
Şanlıurfa (Urfa) / Birecik / Aleppo (Halep)
Within-year entry order unresolved
Düyun-ı Umumiye memuru
Calculated age 40
Continuing service as described
Düyun-ı Umumiye Nezareti tahrirat müsevvidi
450 kuruşCalculated age 40
12 1895/96 (AH 1313)
Aleppo (Halep)
Düyun-ı Umumiye Nezareti tahrirat müsevvidi
450 kuruşCalculated age 41
Continuing service as described
13 1896/97 (AH 1314)
Aleppo (Halep) / İskenderun
Within-year entry order unresolved
Düyun-ı Umumiye Nezareti tahrirat müsevvidi
450 kuruşCalculated age 42
Continuing service as described
Düyun-ı Umumiye memur vekili (Görevin sona ermesi)
Calculated age 42
Recorded service ending
14 1897/98 (AH 1315) · 2 recorded years
Aleppo (Halep)
AH entries: 1315, 1316. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
Düyun-ı Umumiye Nezareti tahrirat müsevvidi
450 kuruşCalculated age 43
Continuing service as described
tahrirat müsevvidi (ham maaş) (Görevin sona ermesi)
Calculated age 44
Recorded service ending
15 Düyun-ı Umumiye Müdüriyeti başkâtibi
500 kuruşCalculated age 45
Düyun-ı Umumiye Müdüriyeti başkâtibi
Calculated age 46
Continuing service as described
16 1901/02 (AH 1319)
Antakya / Aleppo (Halep)
Within-year entry order unresolved
Düyun-ı Umumiye Müdüriyeti başkâtibi
Calculated age 47
Continuing service as described
Düyun-ı Umumiye Nezareti muhasebe başkâtip vekili (Görevin sona ermesi)
Calculated age 47
Recorded service ending
17 1902/03 (AH 1320) · 2 recorded years
Antakya
AH entries: 1320, 1321. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
Düyun-ı Umumiye Müdüriyeti başkâtibi
Calculated age 48
Continuing service as described
azil (rüşvet tahkikatı) (Azil)
Calculated age 49
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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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1881/82 (AH 1299) | 300 | 400 | 150 to 1,500 | 28.0% | 1489 |
| 1882/83 (AH 1300) | 60 | 400 | 150 to 1,400 | 2.8% | 1655 |
| 1883/84 (AH 1301) | 350 | 400 | 150 to 1,400 | 41.1% | 1720 |
| 1884/85 (AH 1302) | 350 | 400 | 150 to 1,500 | 40.2% | 1748 |
| 1885/86 (AH 1303) | 400 | 400 | 150 to 1,500 | 44.7% | 1787 |
| 1886/87 (AH 1304) | 600 | 400 | 150 to 1,500 | 66.1% | 1725 |
| 1887/88 (AH 1305) | 600 | 400 | 150 to 1,500 | 64.2% | 1762 |
| 1888/89 (AH 1306) | 400 | 400 | 135 to 1,500 | 45.6% | 1797 |
| 1890/91 (AH 1308) | 400 | 400 | 125 to 1,500 | 45.4% | 1896 |
| 1892/93 (AH 1310) | 450 | 400 | 135 to 1,500 | 53.1% | 1935 |
| 1894/95 (AH 1312) | 450 | 400 | 140 to 1,500 | 52.4% | 2004 |
| 1895/96 (AH 1313) | 450 | 400 | 140 to 1,500 | 52.5% | 1981 |
| 1896/97 (AH 1314) | 450 | 450 | 150 to 1,575 | 49.8% | 2119 |
| 1897/98 (AH 1315) | 450 | 400 | 140 to 1,425 | 53.2% | 1891 |
| 1898/99 (AH 1316) | 450 | 400 | 144 to 1,400 | 52.0% | 1844 |
| 1899/1900 (AH 1317) | 500 | 400 | 140 to 1,440 | 55.3% | 1821 |
| 1903/04 (AH 1321) | 600 | 405 | 150 to 1,450 | 67.3% | 1578 |
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 entriesThe six most recorded places. Gaps do not count as service. One year can have entries in several places.
Amounts recorded by place
Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate- Aleppo (Halep)300 to 450
- Jisr al-Shughur (Cisr-i Şugur)60 to 400
- Antakya500 to 600
- Şanlıurfa (Urfa)400 to 450
- Mersin400
- Samandağ (Süveydiye)250 to 350
Six places with the most recorded career years. 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
- Antakya77 other officialsHakkı Efendi born 1855/56 (AH 1272); highest salary 4,000 kuruş
- Aleppo (Halep)64 other officialsİskender Efendi 7 shared years; highest salary 650 kuruş
- 1881/82 (AH 1299)187 other officialsDikran Efendi first entry in Aleppo (Halep); highest salary 500 kuruş
Education and personal record
Schooling sıbyan; rüştiye [source]
Honours and other personal details
- Judicial record indicator (recorded code)
- 1 (recorded code) [source]
All personal fields and their sources
Sources and evidence
- Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Antakyalı devlet memurları, 1879 - 1909
NAZİR ÇETİN · 2015 · Pages 204, 205, 206, 207
14 Temmuz 1910 (R.1 Temmuz 1326) tarihinde 300 kuruĢa ulaĢtığı Rüsumat Memurin Müdüriyetinin 1 Mart 1914 (R.26 ġubat 1329) 1tarihli vukuat pusulasıyla bildirilmiĢtir (BOA.DH.SAĠD.,No:185,s.162). 4.1.55.Mehmed ġakir Efendi Antakya‟da “Câmi-i Kebir 208” imamı ve hatibi müteveffa Mahmud Efendi‟nin oğludur. 1835/36 (H:1252) senesinde Antakya‟da doğmuĢtur. Pederi nezdinde Ġslami temel ilimleri, sarf ü nahiv ve Fıkıh derslerinin eğitimini almıĢtır. Arapça ve Türkçe okuyup yazabilmekteydi.; BOA.DH.SAİD.,No:109,s.325
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