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First and last pages of a Qur’an with the stamp of Ziya’ al-Saltanah [II]
First and last pages of a Qur’an with the stamp of Ziya’ al-Saltanah [II], the daughter of Nasir al-Din Shah and wife of Sayyid Zayn al-ʻAbidin Imam Jumʻah. The Qur’an was gift-endowed in the female line in the family, provided that the person would accept reading it every day for the spiritual benefit of Ziya’ al-Saltanah's mother, Nadim al-Saltanah. The date of the endowment is June 1, 1885. Her seal's date is 1857 (perhaps her birth year). After Ziya’ al-Saltanah's death, the Qur‘an was in the possession of her daughter-in-law, Aqdas al-Dawlah (a daughter of Muzaffar al-Din Shah) and...
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Malik Taj Najm al-Saltanah to ʻAbd al-Husayn Mirza Farmanfarma, 25 November 1895
Malik Taj Najm al-Saltanah writes to her brother, ʻAbd al-Husayn Mirza Farmanfarma, about the government of Ardabil, Nazm al-Saltanah, and ʻAyn al-Dawlah. ʻAbd al-Husayn Mirza Farmanfarma's response is written on the margins. The envelope has the seal of Najm al-Saltanah's husband, Mirza Fazl Allah Khan Vakil al-Mulk.