Seyyid Mehmed ġerîf Efendi

Born 1865/66 (AH 1282) · Medina (Medine) · Dated entries 1884 to 1906 (AH 1302 to 1323)

Languages Arabic, Persian, Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAĠD. d, nr. 162/431, s.431

The career, year by year

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The life

Seyyid Mehmed ġerîf Efendi was born in Medina (Medine) in 1865/66 (AH 1282). The father’s occupation was Osmanlı askerlerinin mülkiye baytarı. Schooling included Medine sıbyan mektebi; Medine rüşdiye mektebi. The language repertoire included Arabic, Persian and Turkish.^[source]

Service began in Medina (Medine) in 1884/85 (AH 1302). Dated career entries span 1884/85 (AH 1302) to 1905/06 (AH 1323) across 22 AH years, from Medina (Medine) to Zibâ, beginning with Tahrirat Kalemi mülâzımı and ending with entries for Nahiye Müdürü. More than one post or place appears in 4 of those years. Place names include Medina (Medine), Yanbu (Yenbuülbahr), Emlec and Zibâ.^[1]

Monthly pay went from 500 kuruş in 1886/87 (AH 1304) to 1,000 kuruş in 1905/06 (AH 1323); the highest recorded monthly rate is 1,000 kuruş in 1898/99 (AH 1316).^[1]

Personal record

Birth: Medina (Medine) · 1865/66 (AH 1282)^[source]
Father’s occupation: Osmanlı askerlerinin mülkiye baytarı^[source]
Education: Medine sıbyan mektebi; Medine rüşdiye mektebi^[source]
First work: 1884/85 (AH 1302) · Medina (Medine)^[source]
Age at first work: 20^[source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
Apprenticeship: 2^[source]Duration as recorded; the interval is not dated here.

Career in numbers

22
Dated AH years: 4
Career place names: 2
Entries without a resolved year: 20
Salary years: 500 → 1,000
Annual series: first → last kuruş/month: 1,000
Peak in annual series, kuruş/month: 80.5%
Peers paid less in last year

About these numbers

Dated AH years. Across career and documentary records; not tenure.
Career place names. Distinct place labels; some may not be mapped.
Entries without a resolved year. The original calendar wording remains available without inventing an annual year.
Salary years. One highest recorded monthly rate per official-year; gaps are blank.
Annual series: first → last kuruş/month. 1886/87 (AH 1304) to 1905/06 (AH 1323); nominal rates in observed years.
Peak in annual series, kuruş/month. 1898/99 (AH 1316)
Peers paid less in last year. Share of other officials in the annual salary reference with lower pay in 1905/06 (AH 1323).

Life and career

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Stage 1 of 9 · Medina (Medine)

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1
1865/66 (AH 1282)
Medina (Medine)
1. Birth
  Personal record & evidence →
2
1884/85 (AH 1302)
Medina (Medine)
Within-year entry order unresolved
1. First work as recorded
  Calculated age 20
  Personal record & evidence →
2. Tahrirat Kalemi mülâzımı
  Calculated age 20
  Entry & evidence →[1]
3
1885/86 (AH 1303)
Medina (Medine)
1. Tahrirat Kalemi mülâzımı
  Calculated age 21
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
4
1886/87 (AH 1304)
Medina (Medine) / Yanbu (Yenbuülbahr)
Within-year entry order unresolved
1. Medina (Medine)
  Tahrirat Kalemi mülâzımı
  Calculated age 22
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Yanbu (Yenbuülbahr)
  Tahrirat kâtibi
  500 kuruşCalculated age 22
  Entry & evidence →[1]
5
1887/88 (AH 1305) · 8 recorded years
Yanbu (Yenbuülbahr)
AH entries: 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309, 1310, 1311, 1312. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
1. Tahrirat kâtibi
  500 kuruşCalculated age 23
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Tahrirat kâtibi
  500 kuruşCalculated age 30
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 9 recorded entries in this stage →
6
1895/96 (AH 1313)
Yanbu (Yenbuülbahr) / Emlec
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Emlec
1. Yanbu (Yenbuülbahr)
  Tahrirat kâtibi
  500 kuruşCalculated age 31
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Yanbu (Yenbuülbahr)
  Tahrirat kâtibi (İnfisal)
  Calculated age 31
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 3 recorded entries in this stage →
7
1896/97 (AH 1314) · 2 recorded years
Emlec
AH entries: 1314, 1315. Gaps remain open.
Not yet located on the map: Emlec
1. Nahiye Müdürü
  750 kuruşCalculated age 32
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Nahiye Müdürü
  750 kuruşCalculated age 33
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
8
1898/99 (AH 1316)
Emlec / Zibâ
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Emlec; Zibâ
1. Emlec
  Nahiye Müdürü
  750 kuruşCalculated age 34
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Zibâ
  Nahiye Müdürü
  1,000 kuruşCalculated age 34
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 3 recorded entries in this stage →
9
1899/1900 (AH 1317) · 7 recorded years
Zibâ
AH entries: 1317, 1318, 1319, 1320, 1321, 1322, 1323. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Zibâ
1. Nahiye Müdürü
  1,000 kuruşCalculated age 35
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Nahiye müdürü (Azil)
  Calculated age 41
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 8 recorded entries in this stage →

2 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.

Karantina memur vekili (İnfisal) · Yanbu (Yenbuülbahr) · Undated Entry & evidence → Source [1]
Nahiye Müdürü · Zibâ · Undated · 1,000 kuruş 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

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

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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.

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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 year	Official rate	Sample median	Sample p10 to p90	Paid less	N
1886/87 (AH 1304)	500	400	150 to 1,500	57.3%	1725
1887/88 (AH 1305)	500	400	150 to 1,500	54.5%	1762
1888/89 (AH 1306)	500	400	135 to 1,500	55.5%	1797
1889/90 (AH 1307)	500	400	130 to 1,500	56.1%	1874
1890/91 (AH 1308)	500	400	125 to 1,500	56.0%	1896
1891/92 (AH 1309)	500	400	140 to 1,600	56.1%	1927
1892/93 (AH 1310)	500	400	135 to 1,500	56.2%	1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)	600	400	140 to 1,400	65.6%	1929
1894/95 (AH 1312)	500	400	140 to 1,500	55.4%	2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)	750	400	140 to 1,500	74.1%	1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)	750	450	150 to 1,575	73.2%	2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)	750	400	140 to 1,425	78.0%	1891
1898/99 (AH 1316)	1,000	400	144 to 1,400	83.1%	1844
1899/1900 (AH 1317)	1,000	400	140 to 1,440	83.0%	1821
1900/01 (AH 1318)	1,000	400	140 to 1,500	82.7%	1761
1901/02 (AH 1319)	1,000	400	150 to 1,520	80.1%	1666
1902/03 (AH 1320)	1,000	400	150 to 1,500	81.9%	1627
1903/04 (AH 1321)	1,000	405	150 to 1,450	81.4%	1578
1904/05 (AH 1322)	1,000	400	135 to 1,500	81.7%	1493
1905/06 (AH 1323)	1,000	430	125 to 1,500	80.5%	1423

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

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Where the career is recorded

Distinct AH years with career entries

Yanbu (Yenbuülbahr)10
1886 to 1896 (AH 1304 to 1313)
Zibâ8
1898 to 1906 (AH 1316 to 1323)
Emlec4
1895 to 1899 (AH 1313 to 1316)
Medina (Medine)3
1884 to 1887 (AH 1302 to 1304)

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

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate

Yanbu (Yenbuülbahr)500 to 600
Zibâ1,000
Emlec750

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

Nahiye Müdürü11
1895 to 1906 (AH 1313 to 1323)
Tahrirat kâtibi10
1886 to 1896 (AH 1304 to 1313)
Tahrirat Kalemi mülâzımı3
1884 to 1887 (AH 1302 to 1304)
Karantina memur vekili1
1893/94 (AH 1311)

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

Medina (Medine)63 other officialsSeyyid Mehmed Ali Efendi born 1865/66 (AH 1282); highest salary 31.5 kuruş
Yanbu (Yenbuülbahr)3 other officialsAli Efendi 4 shared years; highest salary 800 kuruş
1884/85 (AH 1302)173 other officialsSeyyid Abdulgani Efendi first entry in Medina (Medine); highest salary 540 kuruş

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Education and personal record

Qualification Formal qualification recorded; Rüşdiye şehadetnamesi, aliyyü'l-a‘lâ^[1]

Schooling Medine sıbyan mektebi; Medine rüşdiye mektebi^[source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

Arabic · Tekellüm ve kitâbet^[source]
Persian · Tekellüm ve kitâbet^[source]
Turkish · Tekellüm ve kitâbet^[source]

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Sources and evidence

Sicil-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Osmanlı Devletinde görev yapan hicazlı devlet memurları
BEYHAN KACIROĞLU · 2021 · Pages 272, 273, 274
324 BOA. DH. SAĠD. d, nr. 162/431, s.431.

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