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Fatimah Khanum's endowment, 1863
Endowment for parts of two qanats and a farm by Fatimah Khanum, the daughter of Mulla Abu al-Qasim Shahabadi Yazdi. The document calls for the money to be spent on Hazrat ʻAli's mourning ceremony on the three holy nights in Ramadan.
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Endowment of the daughter of Sayyid ʻAli Khan Kabir
Endowment of the daughter of Sayyid ʻAli Khan Kabir and wife of Haj Mirza Hasan Shaykh al-Islam.
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Endowment of Maryam Baygum Khanum
Endowment of Maryam Baygum Khanum, daughter of Fatimah Sultan Khanum and Haj Mirza Hasan Shaykh al-Islam.
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Endowment of the Qasim Khan Mosque and School, [19th century]
According to Majlis Library Manuscript Catalog (new series, v.28), the mosque and school located near Darvazah Dawlat was endowed by the daughter of Qasim Khan and administered by ʻAli Quli Mirza. The following individuals are also named in the document: Mulla ʻAli ibn ʻAbd Allah al-Muddaris [teacher]; Mulla Husayn Munajjim Bashi [supervisor]; ʻAbd al-Vahhab ibn ʻAli Muhammad Isfahani [librarian].
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Endowment of half of a residential building, 1904
Endowment of half of a residential building in Sangalaj neighborhood by Bibi Khanum, daughter of Aqa Ghulam Husayn and spouse of Nayib Muhammad Aqa.
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Umm Salmah's endowment, 1794
Endowment for a garden, known as Bagh Zangi, in Abarqu village, near Yazd, and three sixths of a house and its possessions, by Umm Salmah Khanum, the daughter of Haj Muhammad ʻAli Mirza Khan Yazdi. After the property was rented out, the caretaker was to spend three tumans buying bread and raisins for the poor on the Ghadir feast, another three tumans on giving bread, dates, and raisins to the poor during fast-breaking in the month of Ramadan. Five thousand dinars were set aside in case a stranger were to die without anyone to bury them or supply the shroud. The document also dictates that...
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Shah Parvar Khanum's endowment, 1855
Shah Parvar Khanum, the daughter of the late Ra’is Amin from Qallat, endows some properties in the village of Qallat, after deducting the maintenance costs, for the benefit of Ta‘ziyah performers. She assigned Shaykh ‘Abd al-Nabi, the son of Shaykh Abu Turab, as the custodian of this endowment and determined the passage of the guardianship through generations: Shaykh ‘Abd al-Nabi should be followed by his male descendants and, in the absence of male offspring, by his female descendants, then again their male offspring and if not, their female offspring.
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Mirza Muhammad Husayn Mustawfi Hiravi's endowment for his wife's soul, 1887
Aqa Mirza Muhammad Husayn Mustawfi Hiravi endowed his four shares of the Saʻdabad farm in Sarjam village for taʻziyah of Imam Husayn and prayer for the soul of the mother of Mirza Masʻud Khan. After the death of the endower who will act as guardian of the endowment, the eldest male child and their male descendants shall act as the endowment's guardians. If there are no male offspring, the eldest female child and their descendants shall act as the endowment's guardians. 22 March 1887.
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Haj Muhammad's endowments
The first item includes four documents attached to each other: In the first one, dated June 15, 1832, Haj Muhammad, known as Haj Aqa Buzurg Sahib, the son of Fazl Allah Sultan, endows a house and five shops to Ta‘ziyah performers, assigns his children as the guardians, and names Mirza Abu Talib (who has since passed away) as the overseer. In the next three documents, dated January 2, 1829, Haji Muhammad, known as Haji Aqa Buzurg, endows a house located in the Masjid-i Naw neighborhood to Aqa ‘Abd al-Hasani; the contract was effected by Mirza ‘Ali Ardakani and Aqa Mirza Muhammad Sadiq, Mulla...
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Documents of endowments and charity donations by Zahra Sultan Nizam Mafi (‘Izzat al-Saltanah)
Includes letters and documents regarding: the endowment of property to build a school; the purchase of construction material for the boys' school in Mihrabad; the endowment of a school in Mihrabad; building a primary school in Miyanduʼab; a list of donors to a charity organization in Miyanduʼab; a donation to a charitable organization in Miyanduʼab; the extension of the Nizam Mafi High School; the repair of a primary school; the endowment of property for a health center; the endowment of property for a physical exercise center for the disabled; the endowment of property to build a...
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