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İbrahim Tevfik Efendi

Born 1852/53 (AH 1269) · Medina (Medine) · Dated entries 1868 to 1905 (AH 1285 to 1322)

Languages Arabic, Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAĠD. d, nr.69/101, s.101

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1Medina (Medine)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 7 · Medina (Medine)

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  1. 1

    1852/53 (AH 1269)

    Medina (Medine)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1868/69 (AH 1285)

    Medina (Medine)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 16

    2. Hazine-i Nebevi Ruznamçe Kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 16

  3. 3

    1869/70 (AH 1286) · 3 recorded years

    Medina (Medine)

    AH entries: 1286, 1287, 1288. Gaps remain open.

    1. Hazine-i Nebevi Ruznamçe Kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 17

      Continuing service as described

    2. Hazine-i Nebevi Ruznamçe Kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 19

      Continuing service as described

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1872/73 (AH 1289)

    Medina (Medine) / Minasa

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Minasa

    1. Medina (Medine)

      Hazine-i Nebevi Ruznamçe Kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 20

      Continuing service as described

    2. Minasa

      Minasa dükkânları kayıt kâtibi

      100 kuruşCalculated age 20

  5. 5

    1873/74 (AH 1290) · 3 recorded years

    Minasa

    AH entries: 1290, 1291, 1292. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Minasa

    1. Minasa dükkânları kayıt kâtibi

      100 kuruşCalculated age 21

      Continuing service as described

    2. Minasa dükkânları kayıt kâtibi

      100 kuruşCalculated age 23

      Continuing service as described

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1876/77 (AH 1293)

    Minasa / Medina (Medine)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Minasa

    1. Minasa

      Minasa dükkânları kayıt kâtibi

      100 kuruşCalculated age 24

      Continuing service as described

    2. Medina (Medine)

      Hazine-i Nebevi varidat kitabeti refakati

      132 kuruşCalculated age 24

  7. 7

    1877/78 (AH 1294) · 29 recorded years

    Medina (Medine)

    AH entries: 1294, 1295, 1296, 1297, 1298, 1299, 1300, 1301, 1302, 1303, 1304, 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309, 1310, 1311, 1312, 1313, 1314, 1315, 1316, 1317, 1318, 1319, 1320, 1321, 1322. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Hazine-i Nebevi varidat kitabeti refakati

      132 kuruşCalculated age 25

      Continuing service as described

    2. Hazine-i Nebevi varidat kitabeti refakati

      240 kuruşCalculated age 53

    All 34 recorded entries in this stage →

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

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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 yearOfficial rateSample medianSample p10 to p90Paid lessN
1872/73 (AH 1289)100450140 to 2,3506.4%736
1873/74 (AH 1290)100405130 to 2,2005.7%805
1874/75 (AH 1291)100450150 to 1,8004.9%882
1875/76 (AH 1292)100450150 to 2,0005.0%976
1876/77 (AH 1293)132420150 to 2,0009.1%1102
1877/78 (AH 1294)132450150 to 1,8008.4%1160
1878 (AH 1295)132450150 to 2,0008.3%1196
1878/79 (AH 1296)132400150 to 2,0006.6%1328
1879/80 (AH 1297)118.8400180 to 1,8005.9%1534
1880/81 (AH 1298)144400160 to 1,5007.3%1448
1881/82 (AH 1299)144400150 to 1,5008.5%1489
1882/83 (AH 1300)144400150 to 1,4008.4%1655
1883/84 (AH 1301)189.25400150 to 1,40012.1%1720
1884/85 (AH 1302)189.25400150 to 1,50012.3%1748
1885/86 (AH 1303)189.25400150 to 1,50012.9%1787
1886/87 (AH 1304)189.25400150 to 1,50012.8%1725
1887/88 (AH 1305)189.25400150 to 1,50013.7%1762
1888/89 (AH 1306)189.25400135 to 1,50014.5%1797
1889/90 (AH 1307)189.25400130 to 1,50014.7%1874
1890/91 (AH 1308)189.25400125 to 1,50015.2%1896
1891/92 (AH 1309)189.25400140 to 1,60014.4%1927
1892/93 (AH 1310)189.25400135 to 1,50014.4%1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)189.25400140 to 1,40013.5%1929
1894/95 (AH 1312)189.25400140 to 1,50014.8%2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)189.25400140 to 1,50014.4%1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)189.25450150 to 1,57512.4%2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)189.25400140 to 1,42514.7%1891
1898/99 (AH 1316)189.25400144 to 1,40014.1%1844
1899/1900 (AH 1317)210400140 to 1,44019.7%1821
1900/01 (AH 1318)210400140 to 1,50020.1%1761
1901/02 (AH 1319)210400150 to 1,52020.2%1666
1902/03 (AH 1320)220400150 to 1,50020.1%1627
1903/04 (AH 1321)220405150 to 1,45020.5%1578
1904/05 (AH 1322)240400135 to 1,50021.3%1493

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

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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. 1868 to 1905 (AH 1285 to 1322)
  2. Minasa5
    1872 to 1877 (AH 1289 to 1293)

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. Minasa100

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. 1876 to 1905 (AH 1293 to 1322)
  2. 1868 to 1873 (AH 1285 to 1289)
  3. 1872 to 1877 (AH 1289 to 1293)

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Education and personal record

Schooling Sıbyan Mektebi; hususi muallim [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

  • Arabic · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]
  • Turkish · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]
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 157, 158

    222 BOA. DH. SAĠD. d, nr.69/101, s.101.

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 38 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

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