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Booklet of documents
Documents related to women are the following: seq. 23: "I, Haj ʻAli Asghar Bayg, officer at the royal post service, have received all the jewelry of my deceased wife, Nabat Khanum, which was left with the wife of Haji Vakil al-Dawlah for safekeeping, plus three documents that were not listed. December 29, 1886"; seq. 27: a few years ago, the deceased Nabat Khanum from Tehran, the wife of the deceased ʻAli Asghar Bayg, officer at the royal post service, had left 1000 tumans with Haji Aqa Muhammad Hasan Vakil al-Dawlah, representative of the government of the United Kingdom, who claims on the...
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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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Legal documents related to Zahra Khanum
1- Zahra Khanum, the daughter of Karbalayi Ibrahim, sells the usage of water from a qanat to ‘Ali Akbar, the son of Husayn, and Khalil, the son of Zayn al-‘Abidin, in exchange for nine tumans (1892) 2- Khalil, on behalf of Zahra Khanum (daughter of Karbalayi Ibrahim), and Husayn (son of Jabbar), on behalf of Parizad (daughter of ‘Abd Allah), buy a building, including the storage, the stable, the house, a bull, and two cows, for thirteen tumans, from Baqir, who represents himself and Sadiq (1895).
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Legal documents related to Zaynab Khanum
Includes: 1- Zaynab Banu, the daughter of Karbalayi Isma‘il, gives power of attorney for selling a property in Hismadin [Hisam al-Din?] in the village of Harzand-i ‘Atiq to her son, Amir Bayg (1882); 2- Zaynab Khanum has transferred her share of the Hismadin property, which she inherited from her father, to Mulla ‘Abd al-Karim in exchange for three thousand rials (1882); 3- Zaynab Khanum, the daughter of Karbalayi Isma‘il, and ‘Ali Bayg, the son of Shaykh Muhammad, sell their share of water from ‘Uryandibi [Ayrandibi] spring and a property to Karbalayi Bakhsh‘ali and Hasanquli, the sons of...
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Power of attorney for collection of holdings and divorce, 1906
Power of attorney given by Mirza Fazl Allah Nazim al-Zakirin, son of Sayyid Lutf Allah Nazim al-Zakirin, on March 18, 1906, to Mirza Zayn al-‘Abidin, son of Haji Muhammad Hasan from Shiraz, in order to get his money back from his wife Malik Khanum, daughter of Abu al-Fath, and to divorce her (preserving the right of return for the husband). A note on the margin gives power of attorney to divorce Malik Khanum without the above clause.
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Power of attorney to Haji Baba, 1901
Aqa Mashhadi Najaf, the son of Haji Muhammad Ganjah, grants his brother, Aqa Mashhadi Haji Baba, the merchant from Ganjah, the power of attorney to manage the transfer of his belongings to his three children, Sughra Khanum, Sariyah Khanum, and Muhammad Muhsin.
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Power of attorney to get inheritance, 1905
Power of attorney given to Mirza Zayn al-‘Abidin, son of Haj Muhammad Hasan from Shiraz, by Mirza Samad, son of the late Mulla Muhammad Khurasani from Shiraz, to last for six months from the time of this contract, in order to get his share from his brother’s inheritors, including Firdaws Khanum, daughter of the late Karbalayi Muhammad Hasan, his mother Zahra Sultan, daughter of Haji Haydar and wife of the late Karbalayi Muhammad Hasan, and Haji Haydar, for a house in Shiraz, household furnishings inherited from his mother, Khanum Mah, daughter of Haji Muhammad Taqi, and what is owed to him...
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Power of attorney to get inheritance, 1906
Power of attorney given to Mirza Zayn al-‘Abidin, son of Haji Muhammad Hasan from Shiraz, by Khavar Sultan, daughter of Muhammad Khan and wife of Mashhadi Nasir from Shiraz to last up to six months from the time of this contract in order to get back the inherited house of her deceased husband. The house should have been transferred to Khavar Sultan and her children, but Muhammad Husayn Ghali-furush [the rug dealer] has usurped it. Dated August 14, 1906
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Power of attorney to get inheritance, 1906
Power of attorney given to Mirza Zayn al-‘Abidin, son of Haji Muhammad Hasan from Shiraz, by Haji Muhammad Karim Tabbakh-i Dast-furush [the street-vendor cook] from Shiraz (son of the late Haji Muhammad Sadiq from Shiraz), who is the guardian of the underage son of the late Mashhadi Ghulam Husayn and Hajiyah Bibi (daughter of the late Karbalayi Muhammad) to last for one year from the time of this contract in order to get the child's paternal inheritance, which has been kept by Shaykh ‘Abd al-Majid Maktab-dar. Dated April 1, 1906
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Power of attorney to get share of inheritance, 1906
Power of attorney given by Mashhadi Muhammad Riza Saffar from Shiraz (son of Haji ‘Abbas), Mashhadi Muhammad Husayn Basat-andaz [the street vendor] (son of Karbalayi Ghulam Husayn), Bibi Mah Rukh (permanent wife of Karbalayi Ghulam Husayn Saffar and daughter of Karbalayi Ghulam Husayn), and Bibi Habibah Sultan Khanum (permanent wife of Sayyid Isma‘il from Shiraz and daughter of the late Haji ‘Abbas) to Mirza Zayn al-‘Abidin (son of Haji Muhammad Hasan from Shiraz) in order to get their inheritance from Mashhadi ‘Ali Muhammad Basat-andaz, which Sayyid Mahmud Hakkak from Shiraz is holding....