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Petition of Sarim al-Dawlah's wife
Wife of the deceased Sarim al-Dawlah complains to Farmanfarma about her son-in-law, Mirza ʻAli Khan Muʻtamad al-Sultan Sartip. The son-in-law has seized all his mother-in-law's properties and has abandoned her. Now she asks Farmanfarma to send her to the ʻAtabat.
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Jahan Khanum's claim to her share of inheritance, 1901-1904
In 1901 or 1902, Muhammad Mirza (originally from Yerevan and a resident of Sanandaj) writes in his will while in Karbalaʼ and on his way to pilgrimage to Mecca, declaring that part of his property should be sent to ʻAtabat. After his death, Jahan Khanum from Kurdistan asks for her share of the inheritance, claiming that she is his only inheritor, but this claim needs to be proven in the presence of a religious judge. The item includes documents such as Muhammad Riza's will, the division of his property, a copy of a document acknowledging Jahan Khanum as an inheritor, Muhammad Mirza's wives'...