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Zahra Sultan ‘Izzat al-Saltanah and others in a class
A private tutoring session at the house of Riza Quli Khan Nizam al-Saltanah Mafi. Pictured, from the left, are: Fazl Allah Khan (Nizam al-Saltanah Mafi's cousin), Muhammad ‘Ali Khan Nizam Mafi, Zahra Sultan ‘Izzat al-Saltanah, Abu al-Qasim Khan (the son of Haydar Quli Khan Burhan al-Dawlah and the younger brother of Nizam al-Saltanah Mafi), and Muhammad Taqi Khan Nizam Mafi. Muhammad ‘Ali Khan, Zahra Sultan, and Muhammad Taqi Khan were the children of Khadijah Sultan and Riza Quli Nizam al-Saltanah Mafi.
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Khadijah Sultan to her husband Riza Quli Khan Salar Mu‘azzam
Letters from Khadijah Sultan to her husband Riza Quli Khan Salar Mu‘azzam: Khadijah Sultan's draft of a letter in which she complains about not receiving any news from her husband and asks him to write more often to her, and also writes about their children (Muhammad ʻAli Khan, Mirza Taqi Khan, and Zahra Sultan)'s well-being; a letter complaining about Riza Quli Khan's decision to send Muhammad ʻAli Khan (their son) to Beirut instead of London or Belgium, arguing that if Beirut were an appropriate place to study, Nizam al-Saltanah would have sent his son there or Sa‘d al-Mulk would have...
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Khadijah Sultan to her son Muhammad ‘Ali Khan
Letters from Khadijah Sultan to her son, Muhammad ‘Ali Khan: a letter in which she informs Muhammad ‘Ali Khan of her own wellbeing and of that of her younger son (Mahmud) and asks her husband not to send their son (Muhammad ‘Ali Khan) to Beirut (because of an epidemic); a letter describing Khadijah Sultan's happiness about the news of her son (Muhammad ‘Ali)'s arrival in Saint Petersburg and also her other son (Taqi)'s decision to join him there; a letter of gratitude for her son's gifts (a mirror and a comb); a letter about the well-being of the members of her family, travel to...