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Documents related to the conflict between the villages of Kahal and Alanjiq in Azarbayjan, 1869-1941
Documents related to the conflict between two villages of Kahal and Alanjiq in Azarbayjan, arising from disputes over land boundaries and the right to water. The conflict that proceeded over years is judged by the elders of the villages, government officials, landlords, and agreements are signed and sealed by the opposing parties. However, protests, petitions, transgressions of the borders and abuses of water rights. These become subjects of some of the reports and documents listed in this item.
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Khvurshid Khanum's petitions, 1908
Petitions by Khvurshid Khanum, daughter of Aqa Riza, from Barfurush, to Mukhbir al-Saltanah, Minister of Justice, explaining how following her parents death, when she was three years old, her uncle, ‘Abbasquli Khan, seeking her inheritance of more than fifty thousand tumans worth of property, took her in. After ten years, he married her off to his grandson, son of I‘timad Divan, despite her discontent. I‘timad Divan never paid her her share of inheritance with the excuse that she was his son's wife. Khvurshid Khanum wants a divorce and is willing to waive her mahr, which is more than ten...
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Correspondence regarding the murder of Hakim Haq Nazar, 1899
Including 1- a petition by Rahil to Mushir al-Dawlah, regarding the murder of her husband, Haq Nazar, a Jewish doctor in Kurdistan. She claims the murderers were hired by Ishaq, another Jewish doctor; 2- a telegraph from Muhammad Yusuf from Kurdistan to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tehran, regarding the murder of Haq Nazar by Fattah, son of ‘Abd al-Rahman, Ma‘ruf, and another person -- all Ottoman nationals. The murderers are in jail but ‘Abd al-Rahman is conducting a sit-in at Hajar Khatun Imamzadah and the house of Shaykh Shukr Allah. The writer requests accountability from the...
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Surur al-Saltanah and Mu‘azzaz al-Mulk love letters, 1909 to 1910
Love letters of ‘Abd al-Husayn Mu‘azzaz al-Mulk (Taymurtash), son of Karim Dad Khan, to Surur al-Saltanah, daughter of Zarrin Kulah Khanum and Khazin al-Mulk, accompanied by some envelopes and part of a letter, probably from Surur al-Saltanah to Mu‘azzaz al-Mulk. These letters were most likely written during the time between their ‘Aqd (formal contract of marriage) and ‘Arusi (marriage celebration and consummation), while Surur al-Saltanah was living in Tehran and Mu‘azzaz al-Mulk was traveling between Tehran and Khurasan; the letters have also been separately included in this collection;...
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Letters from the wives of the murdered and accused murderer to Iran-i naw, 1911
Letter from Nimtaj from Rasht regarding the murder of Lutf‘ali Mu’addab al-Sultan, head of the Anzali police department; and a letter from Fatimah (daughter of ‘Ali Akbar from Isfahan and wife of Mujir al-Iyalah) whose husband is accused of murder
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Documents regarding property management of Banu-yi Ashraf and her children
Documents regarding property management of Banu-yi Ashraf and her children, including: list of properties purchased by ‘Abbas Quli Khan Ashrafi, Musa Khan Ashraf al-Mulk, and his underage children in the village of Laktarashan between 1903 to 1930; settlements and rental contracts related to properties and qanats in the villages of Laktarashan, Kalak, Mansur Kandah, and Istardikala belonging to Ashraf al-Mulk, Banu-yi Ashraf and their children, Muhammad, Ahmad, Maryam, and Musa Ashrafi. In some of these legal documents, Banu-yi Ashraf (Ashraf al-Dawlah), Fatimah Khanum (mother of Ashraf...
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