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Çerkeşşeyhîzâde Seyyid Mehmed Tevfik Efendi

Born 1826/27 (AH 1242) · Ankara · Dated entries 1866 to 1889 (AH 1283 to 1306)

Languages Arabic, Turkish

Follow 6 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.

1AnkaraCairo (Kahire)Istanbul (Dersaadet)
● Birth○ First workB / F · year unresolved● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 6 · Ankara

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

  1. 1

    1826/27 (AH 1242)

    Ankara

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1866/67 (AH 1283)

    Cairo (Kahire)

    1. Mısır mevleviyeti

      Calculated age 41

  3. 3

    1882/83 (AH 1300)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Mahkeme-i Teftiş-i Evkâf müsteşarı

      Calculated age 58

    2. İstanbul kadısı

      Calculated age 58

  4. 4

    1884/85 (AH 1302)

    Bâbıâli, İstanbul

    Not yet located on the map: Bâbıâli, İstanbul

    1. Bağdat Islahatı Komisyonu azası

      Calculated age 60

  5. 5

    1885/86 (AH 1303)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet) / Bâb-ı Meşîhat, İstanbul

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Bâb-ı Meşîhat, İstanbul

    1. Istanbul (Dersaadet)

      Meclis-i Tedkikât-ı Şer‘iyye azası

      Calculated age 61

    2. Bâb-ı Meşîhat, İstanbul

      Meclis-i Meşâyih nâzırı

      Calculated age 61

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1888/89 (AH 1306)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    1. Tedkik-i Müellefât Encümeni reisi

      Calculated age 64

23 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.

The career, year by year

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Pay over time

Pay in its time

Salary comparison sample

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

This dossier has no validated link to the annual salary comparison.

Career patterns and pay

Where the career is recorded

Distinct AH years with career entries
  1. 1882 to 1889 (AH 1300 to 1306)
  2. Bâb-ı Meşîhat, İstanbul1
    1885/86 (AH 1303)
  3. Bâbıâli, İstanbul1
    1884/85 (AH 1302)
  4. 1866/67 (AH 1283)

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

Titles across the recorded years

Distinct AH years with each recorded title
  1. 1884/85 (AH 1302)
  2. 1882/83 (AH 1300)
  3. 1882/83 (AH 1300)
  4. 1885/86 (AH 1303)
  5. 1885/86 (AH 1303)
  6. 1866/67 (AH 1283)

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

Qualification Formal qualification recorded; İcazetnâme [1]

Schooling Özel ders ve ders halkaları [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Şeyhülislamlık belgelerinde Hz. Peygamber'in ilmî mirası (1879-1924) yılları Seyyid Ulema biyografileri

    ESRA YILDIZ · 2017 · Pages 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 5 dated years

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