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Marriage contract of Bibi Khanum Batul and Aqa Mirza Muhammad Riza, 1906
Marriage contract of Bibi Khanum Batul, daughter of Mirza Muhammad from Shiraz, and Aqa Mirza Muhammad Riza, son of Haji Aqa ‘Ali from Fasa; the mahr includes two hundred tumans, twenty misqals [unit of weight] of gold, one charik [unit of weight] of green silk, along with a Qur‘an worth one tuman. The wife was granted the right to determine the location of their residence.
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Marriage contract of Bihjat Baygum and Tahmasb Khan, 1924
Marriage contract of Bihjat Baygum, daughter of the late Sayyid Ahmad, and Tahmasb Khan, son of the late ‘Ali Mirza-i Imam-zadah Isma‘ili; the mahr includes thirty tumans along with a Qur‘an worth one tuman.
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Marriage contract of Khanum Hajiyah and Mashhadi Husayn Misgar, 1928
Marriage contract of Khanum Hajiyah, daughter of Mashhadi Karim Qassab [the butcher] from Shiraz, and Mashhadi Husayn Misgar [the coppersmith], son of Karbalayi Aqa Buzurg from Shiraz; the mahr includes sixty tumans, a Qur‘an worth one tuman, one misqal [unit of weight] of gold, ten misqals of green silk, one charik [unit of weight] of palm starch, and five mans [unit of weight] of salt. The mahr remains the groom's debt.
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Marriage contract, settlement, and divorce agreement between Saltanat Khanum and Shahzadah ‘Abbas Mirza, 1910 and 1911
Marriage contract of Saltanat Khanum (known as Mukhbar al-Saltanah), daughter of Davud Mirza, and Shahzadah [prince] ‘Abbas Mirza, son of Haj Muhammad Mahdi Mirza, on March 15, 1910; the mahr includes a Qurʼan worth twenty-five tumans, one-twelfth of [illegible] ‘Abbas Abad village, five hundred tumans, a female Abyssinian slave worth one hundred and fifty tumans, and five mans [unit of weight] of silk. On April 1, 1910, Shahzadah ‘Abbas Mirza divorced Saltanat Khanum, and since the marriage was not consummated, her mahr was cut in half. Saltanat Khanum settled half of her original mahr,...
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Petition from Maryam Sultan to Friday prayer-leader
Petition of Maryam Sultan, wife of Mirza Muhammad Riza, to Hujjat al-Islam, the Friday prayer-leader. In it, she states that Mirza Muhammad Riza has triple-divorced her and gone to Fasa for seven months while owing her a two-hundred tuman debt and her mahr.
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Petition of Haj Ghulam Husayn about his son-in-law's debt
Haj Ghulam Husayn writes a petition to Haj Shaykh Yahya, the Friday prayer-leader of Fars, regarding what Mirza Lutf Allah owes him and his daughter, including: one thousand tumans as a dowry, eight hundred tumans as his daughter's alimony and clothing expenses, and one hundred tumans as his daughter's mahr, which remains Mirza Lutf Allah's debt.
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Petition of Haji Husayn ‘Ali about his daughter's mahr and alimony, 1915
Petition written by Haji Husayn ‘Ali Saqat-furush [the retailer] to Hujjat al-Islam Ayatollah Muhammad ‘Ali al-Husayni, about the debt of his daughter's husband to him. The debt is eighty tumans of mahr and three years of alimony, which his daughter transferred to him in another settlement. At the end, the receiver of the petition writes that Ibrahim hasn't paid his debt yet, and the wife can get divorce based on Shari‘ah (with the father acting on her behalf).
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Petition to get mahr and alimony, 1919
Draft of a petition written by the lawyer of Haji Mirza Muhammad Hasan's daughter asking for her mahr in the amount of one thousand tumans, as well as alimony and clothing expenses, from Mirza 'Abd al-Husayn Khan, before he travels out of town
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Petition to receive rights after divorce, 1905
Petition of Bala Khanum, daughter of Mirza Mahdi, via Mirza Zayn al-‘Abidin, to the Friday prayer leader of Fars, requesting to call Mirza Riza Quli Khan Niyrizi to the court, due to her sudden divorce despite the 99-year temporary marriage contract a few days earlier, with a monthly payment of eight tumans.
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Power of attorney for financial management, 1956
Power of attorney given by Karbalayi Zayn al-‘Abidin Nahhas [the copper dealer] known as Karbalayi ‘Abid [the devoted], son of Muhammad ‘Ali, to Muhammad Baqir ‘Attar [the herb seller], son of the late ‘Ali Munajjim [the astrologist], in order to manage his financial matters during his absence from Shiraz. Karbalayi Zayn al-‘Abidin also appoints Muhammad Baqir ‘Attar as the executor of his will. His underage son, Muhammad Rahim, will be his inheritor. He also mentions that forty tumans of a copper store's investment belongs to his wife, Zivar Khanum, daughter of Haji Aqa Buzurg Qannadi, as...