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Anthology of food, [ca. 1873 or 1874]
A satirical anthology of poetry that uses Iranian foods to make fun of government elites, both men and women, including: Nasir al-Din Shah, Muzaffar al-Din Shah (Vali ʻAhd), Aqa Vajih, Fakhr al-Muluk, Ziyaʼ al-Saltanah, ʻIsmat al-Dawlah, Amin al-Saltanah, Turan Aqa, Tuman Aqa, Anis al-Dawlah, Shukuh al-Saltanah, Taj al-Dawlah, Shams al-Dawlah, Akhtar al-Saltanah, Badr al-Saltanah, Zaynab al-Saltanah, ʻIffat al-Saltanah, ʻAʼishah Khanum, Hajiyah Khanum, Amin Aqdas, Imam Jumʻah, Atabak Aʻzam, Iʻtimad al-Saltanah, Shaykh al-Islam, Nazim al-Bikaʼ. The writer, Mayil Afshar, received the titles...
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Correspondence of Malakah Iran and Zahir al-Sultan with the Ministry of Finance, 1916 to 1918
Correspondence amongst Malakah Iran (Furugh al-Dawlah), the Treasury, and the Ministry of Finance regarding the approval of the Cabinet to pay five thousand tumans to Malakah Iran to compensate for damages to her house when it was bombarded along with the Majlis during the Constitutional Revolution, and requesting the remaining two thousand and five hundred tumans. After Malakah Iran's death, her son, Muhammad Nasir Zahir al-Sultan, asks the Ministry of Finance to account for the remaining money as part of his taxes of seventy-six kharvars (unit of weight) of barley from Mast Khuban village...
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Furugh al-Dawlah and her daughters Furugh al-Muluk and Malik al-Muluk
Furugh al-Dawlah, Nasir al-Din Shah's daughter, and her daughters in Dervish costumes.
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Furugh al-Dawlah and her two daughters
Turan Agha known as Furugh al-Dawlah, daughter of Nasir al-Din Shah and wife of ‘Ali Zahir al-Dawlah, with her two daughters, [Furugh al-Muluk and Malik al-Muluk]
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Furugh al-Dawlah and her two daughters
Furugh al-Dawlah and her two daughters, Furugh al-Muluk (Valiyyah) and Malik a-Muluk
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Group portrait
In Nasir al-Din Shah's handwriting [from left, women]: "Layla Khanum, Furugh al-Dawlah, and Fakhr al-Dawlah"; the boy is ‘Aziz al-Sultan
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Group portrait
In Nasir al-Din Shah's handwriting: "‘Aziz al-Sultan and a group of women"; the first person from the left, sitting on the step, is Anis al-Dawlah; the second person from the left, sitting on the ground, is Furugh al-Dawlah; the second person from the right, sitting on the step, is Fakhr al-Dawlah; the child, first from right, sitting on the ground is ‘Aziz al-Sultan.
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Khayrat-i hisan
Khayrat-i hisan, 3 volumes, Tehran: no publisher, 1887, 1888, and 1889. Compiled by by Muhammad Hasan Khan Iʿtimad al-Saltanah, a biographical dictionary of famous women of Islam, provides information on some forty learned women from courtly circles in Qajar period.
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Letter about selecting a wife, [late 19th century]
The unidentified author advises that Najm al-Saltanah's daughter is a better marriage prospect than Ashraf al-Muluk, the daughter of her sister, Surur al-Saltanah, and requests that this information be kept confidential.
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Letter from Mahd-i ‘Ulya to Nasir al-Din Shah, 1863
Includes greetings and talks about her well-being, Niyavaran's weather, seeing Tuman Aqa and Turan Aqa, sending the turbat via Mulk Ara, and asks Nasir al-Din Shah to respond to the petition of the daughters of the Mashhad Friday Prayer Imam regarding the hardship they have endured after Mirza ‘Askari's death
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