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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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Deposition about shares of inheritance and a will
Draft by Mashhadi Lutf‘ali and Mashhadi Ghulam ‘Ali, sons of the late Mashhadi Ghulam Riza, confirming their shares of their father's inheritance; additionally, Mashhadi Lutf‘ali confirms that his permanent wife, Khanum Safi, is the executor of his will and the guardian of his underage children, and if he dies before pilgrimages to Mecca and the shrines in Iraq, his wife, with his brother's supervision, should take his body to burry in Vadi al-Salam in Najaf.
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Fatimah Baygum Khanum's will, 1904
Will of Fatimah Baygum Khanum, daughter of Khanum Sultan and Sayyid Taqi, assigning her husband, Sayyid Javad (the rice seller) and her brother, Sayyid Ghulamhusayn, as executors of her will.
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Hajiyah Zivar Sultan's deposition on her settlement with her inheritors, 1906
Hajiyah Zivar Sultan (daughter of the late Haji Muhammad Hasan and former wife of the late Haji Muhammad ‘Alaqah-band [the silk dealer] from Shiraz) confirms that she settled her possessions with her inheritors for one tuman and some crystal sugar, with the condition that her possessions would belong to her while she is alive, and after her death, her inheritors should pay seven hundred and fifty tumans for her funeral costs and for charity as she desires.
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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'...
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Khanum Sultan's will, 1904
Will of Khanum Sultan, daughter of ‘Aliquli Bayg, assigning her children, Sayyid Ghulamhusayn and Fatimah Baygum, as executors of her will.
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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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Settlement and will, 1904 and 1905
On one side is the settlement dated August 21, 1904 between Karbalayi Kazim, son of the late Mirza [illegible] from Lahijan, and Haj Ramazan, son of Mashhadi Mulla Baba from Dumuchal [Dumchal], over connected and seperate pieces of land in Dumuchal [Dumchal] village, which Karbalayi Kazim inherited from his mother and his brother, for four hundred twenty-five tumans and five thousand dinars. On the other side is a copy of Haj Ramazan's will (dated January 15, 1905), in which he named his son Ghulam Aqa Shaykh Hasan the executor of his will and appointed him to manage his properties. Shaykh...
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Settlement of Baygum Khanum and her husband, 1903
Includes three documents: 1- Baygum Khanum, the daughter of Mirza ‘Abd al-Husayn, gifts her mahr and dowry to her husband, Mu‘tamad al-Sultan Iskandar Khan Yavar known as Haji Khan, in exchange for a shawl and some crystal candy. She has also made him responsible for spending one-third of her belongings for religious obligations after her death; 2- Mu‘tamad al-Sultan Iskandar Khan Yavar known as Haji Khan transfers some parts of his property to his wife, Baygum Khanum, the daughter of Mirza ‘Abd al-Husayn, in exchange for a pair of socks and some crystal candy; 3- Baygum Khanum settles all...
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Will of Gawhar Khanum, 1905
The will of Gawhar Khanum, wife of the late Haj Habib. The will specifies that a trustworthy person is paid three hundred tumans to go on Hajj on her behalf, one hundred and forty tumans for someone to perform forty-one years' worth of prayers for her and to fast for forty-one months on her behalf, and sixty tumans for her funeral expenses. Gawhar Khanum advises that her son, Muʻtamad al-Sultan Muhammad Husayn Iqbal-i Divan, should supervise the affairs.
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