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Correspondence regarding Ruqiyah's disobedience, 1915-1916
In one document Ruqiyah, the wife is banned from leaving the house without her husband's permission. In the other, Mahdi Khan, the husband, complains about her disobedience to Muhammad al-Husayni.
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Istiftaʼ about divorce, the waiting period, and alimony
Question regarding the divorce of one's wife, the waiting period, and whether the wife should stay in the house until the divorce is finalized; if the wife does not want to stay and leaves for her paternal house without the husband's permission, can she still receive alimony?
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About paying alimony, 1914
Aqa Buzurg Khan, son of the late Mirza Muhammad Khan, on behalf of Mirza ‘Abd al-Karim Khan Murshid, is responsible for paying the daily alimony of Khanum ‘Ata’ (daughter of Muhammad Husayn Khan Muntazam and permanent wife of Mirza ‘Abd al-Karim Khan Murshid) and to treat her well
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Letter from Karbalayi Baqir
Letter from Karbalayi Baqir to Aqa regarding the triple divorce settlement of a woman, in his office/presence, and payment of the alimony during the waiting period under the condition that the woman stays with a Sayyidah woman who is his neighbor. The previous night he noticed that the woman was not with Sayyidah, and had claimed that she had Aqa's permission to go anywhere she wanted. He inquires about this claim and informs Aqa that if the woman were not entrusted to an honorable person, he did not wish to be responsible for her.
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Petition about an alimony dispute
An unidentified woman asks Mirza Hasan Shaykh al-Islam to intervene in an alimony dispute involving payment in wheat, kindling and lumber.
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Complaint by Sadiq Khan's wife, 1899
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs asks the Government of Kurdistan to summon Sadiq Khan from Kurdistan (who used to be Amir Nizam's agent in Tabriz) and demands he settle the status of his marriage. Six years ago, Sadiq Khan married a woman in Tehran and since then he has neither paid her alimony nor divorced her.
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Questions and answers
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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Petitions and requests submitted to Mirza Hasan Shaykh al-Islam and Munshi Bashi
Petitions and requests, including the following: one to Mirza Hasan Shaykh al-Islam petitioning for assistance in recovering Fatimah Sultan Khanum's share of her father's inheritance. Fatimah Sultan Khanum was the daughter of Haj Muhammad Baqir, the sister of Yumn al-Saltanah, and the wife of Asad Allah Sarhang. Another is a petition to Mirza Hasan Shaykh al-Islami about the division of inheritance and the reply; another is a petition to Mirza Hasan Shaykh al-Islam from the mother of a murdered man; in another, an unidentified woman asks Mirza Hasan Shaykh al-Islam to intervene in an...