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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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Pages of a calendar with predictions based on astrology, 1877 to 1920
Some pages of calendars of the years 1877 to 1920 that include some events and some predictions based on astrology
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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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Power of attorney to collect daughter's mahr, 1914
Power of attorney given by Bibi Safiyah Sultan, wife of the late Haji Mirza Mahmud Sahib Tajir (merchant) from Kazirun and daughter of the late Muhammad Khan Bunab from Shiraz, to Mirza Zayn al-‘Abidin, son of Haji Muhammad Hasan Tajir, in order to collect her daughter (Khanum Gawhar)'s mahr which has been transferred to Bibi Safiyah Sultan through a settlement, from Aqa Mirza Aqa-yi Nadim (her daughter's father-in-law)
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Power of attorney to get mahr and inheritance, 1907
Power of attorney given to Mirza Zayn al-‘Abidin, son of Haji Muhammad Hasan from Shiraz, by Ruqayah Baygum, daughter of Mirza Muhammad Ja‘far Jarrah [the surgeon] from Shiraz, who was married to Mirza Ahmad and now is Aqa ‘Ali Aqa's wife, in order to get her mahr (according to the marriage contract) from Mirza Sadra and Haji Mirza Aqa, brothers of Mirza Ahmad, and to get her share of Mirza Ahmad's inheritance. Dated September 18, 1907
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Power of attorney to obtain a woman's mahr, 1909
A woman has given the power of attorney to Karbalayi Amr Allah to obtain her mahr, alimony, and other expenses from her husband, Haji Muhammad Ibrahim (Mashhadi Kazim's son)
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Seeking the judicial opinion about the mahr in two underage children's marriage
Seeking the judicial opinion of Hujjat al-Islam Shaykh Muhammad Ja‘far regarding the marriage agreement of two underage children on whether or not the father of the underage girl could receive the mahr from the father of the underage boy
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Settlement between Agha Tikkah Khanum and her husband Fath Allah, 1907
Settlement between Agha Tikkah Khanum (daughter of Haji Mirza ‘Ali Muhammad from Shiraz) and her husband, Fath Allah (son of the late Haji Abu al-Qasim son of Haji Rustam Anbar-dar [storage keeper]), over one-fourth of the late Haji Abu al-Qasim's inheritance (which includes Agha Tikkah Khanum's mahr of sixty tumans and also an additional one thousand tumans) for one hundred and twenty tumans, and an additional charik [unit of weight] of sugar cubes as the cost of detriment.
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Settlement between Hajiyah Khaunm and her mother, 1916
Settlement on July 20, 1916, between Hajiyah Khaunm, daughter of Haji Ghulam Husayn Zari‘ [the farmer] from Dih Buzurg, and her mother, Bibi Baygum Jan (daughter of Karbalayi Haydar), over Hajiyah Khanum's mahr from her marriage to Mirza ‘Abbas Khan, son of Mirza Luft Allah Mustawfi, and all of the dowry taken to her husband's house, for some crystal candy and one hundred dinars. On the margin, Hajiyah Khanum's father has confirmed this settlement and has sealed it.