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.
These documents include: 1- settlement of the properties, located at Baram plain, among Shaykh Abu Turab's brother, Haj Zayn al-‘Abidin, and Shaykh Abu Turab's inheritors, his wives, Raziyah Sultan Baygum and ‘Izzat Nisa’ Baygum, and his children, Shaykh Majd al-Din, Shaykh ‘Abd al-Nabi, Asiyah Khatun, Bibi Khanum Sultan, Bibi Nusrat Sultan, and Marziyah Sultan Baygum (May 2, 1866); 2- three documents regarding the division of the inheritance of Shaykh Abu Turab, the former Imam Jum‘ah of Fars. Based on his will and under supervision of Mushir al-Mamalik, the executor of the will, and Zayn...
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