KÂTİP — TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi (Mustafa Sabri Küçükaşcı; Erhan Afyoncu and Recep Ahıshalı)

الكاتب — موسوعة TDV الإسلامية ⁦(مصطفى صبري كوجوكاشجي؛ إرهان أفيونجو وريجب أهشهالي)⁩

The TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi entry 'Kâtip' (scribe, secretary). It covers writing and scribes in early Islam, the chancery scribes of the Umayyad, Abbasid, Fatimid, Mamluk, Seljuk, Mongol and Safavid states, their pay and training, and then the Ottoman scribes: the central offices, the halifes, the apprentices, their pay and working hours, and promotion. The first part is by Mustafa Sabri Küçükaşcı, the Ottoman part by Erhan Afyoncu and Recep Ahıshalı.