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Questions for Aqa Muhammad Kazim, regarding various issues, including an unqualified person leading a prayer in congregation and performing a divorce; and in case the divorce was valid, whether or not he could marry the divorced woman
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Questions for Sayyid Muhammad Yazdi Firuzabadi in Najaf, including divorce after the woman's menstruation and marriage to a muhallil after triple-divorce
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Regarding divorce and reconciliation of Sakinah Khanum and Kazim Aqa, 1903
Kazim Aqa gives the power of attorney to divorce his wife, Sakinah (daughter of Aqa Kushi [?]), in exchange for her waiving her mahr; on August 10, 1914, Sakinah Khanum and Kazim Aqa reconciled
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Marriage contract of Qamar Sultan Khanum and Mirza Hasan Khan Mukarram al-Sultan, 1925
Marriage contract of Qamar Sultan Khanum, the daughter of Mirza Muhammad Khan Munshi Bashi, and Mirza Hasan Khan Mukarram al-Sultan, the son of Aqa Muhammad Sadiq Aqa the merchant from Kashan. The mahr is a Qurʼan, a Kashmir shawl, a diamond ring, and eight hundred tumans. Part of the mahr has been paid and the rest remains the groom's debt. The conditions of the marriage contract are the following: for five years, Qamar Sultan Khanum has the right to divorce if her husband is absent for more than a year, or does not pay living expenses. The groom also promises that for fifty years he will...
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Power of attorney to divorce Fatimah Baygum and Isma‘il, 1903
Isma‘il, son of Muhammad ‘Ali, gives the power of attorney to the writer to divorce his consummated wife, Fatimah Baygum (daughter of Karbalayi Muhammad), in exchange for her waiving her mahr
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Power of attorney to divorce Sakinah Khanum and Karbalayi Muhammad, 1916
Karbalayi Muhammad, son of Darvish, gives the power of attorney to the writer to divorce his consummated wife, Sakinah Khanum, daughter of Aqa Kushi [?]. She, too, gives the the power of attorney to the writer for waiving her mahr and divorcing her husband.
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Petition of Haydar Khan's wife to Shuja‘ Al-Dawlah, 1914
Petition by the wife of Haydar Khan (from Sarab) to Shuja‘ Al-Dawlah, who complains that her husband left her to live in Sarab seven years ago, one year after their marriage. He neither comes back nor pays her alimony. She mentions her previous complaints were to no avail and urges Shuja‘ Al-Dawlah to order Haydar Khan to take her to Sarab or pay her alimony or divorce her. On the margin, Shuja‘ Al-Dawlah has ordered Isma‘il Khan Amir Tuman to rectify her situation.
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Questions for Sayyid Muhammad Yazdi Firuzabadi in Najaf, sent from Rasht, about prayer and ablution after intercourse; power of attorney to perform divorce, marriage, and other legal contracts; ownership of dowries after the passing of either the parents or the daughter; responsibility for costs of food, medicine, and a doctor for a woman who is living in her parents' house
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Questions for Sayyid Muhammad Yazdi Firuzabadi in Najaf, regarding the power of attorney to perform divorce; a father's permission for marriage or temporary marriage of an adult virgin woman; the amount of mahr in case the husband dies before consummating marriage; alimony for an adult woman in a marriage with an underage boy or vice versa; the waiting period for woman in case of the death of her husband before consummation; marrying a sister-in-law after a wife's death in case of the mother-in-law breastfeeding the man's son; alimony in temporary marriage and during pregnancy after...
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Questions for Sayyid Abu al-Hasan Mujtahid Isfahani, including about the sale of gold and silverwares and turning them into women's jewelry, the power of attorney to perform divorce, and conditions for performing marriage and other legal contracts