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Deposition about recording a marriage, 1910
Sayyid Ahmad A‘mi [the blind] from Kazirun, son of Mirza Kuchak from Kazirun, testifies about his presence at the marriage ceremony between the late Hajiyah Zivar Sultan, daughter of Haji Muhammad Hasan the merchant, and Mirza Zayn al-‘Abidin, son of Haji Muhammad Hasan, in August of 1904. The mahr was one hundred tumans and a volume of the Qur’an. Shaykh Lutf Allah, son of Haj Shaykh ‘Ali Muhammad, was the other witness to the marriage present at the Imam's courthouse.
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Deposition of Haj Ghulam Riza's children, 1907
Deposition of ʻAli Riza, Muhammad Husayn, Mashhadi Husayn, and Khanum Nawbar, the children of Haj Ghulam Riza Baqqal [the grocer] from Shiraz, about the ownership of a grocery store, a wood and grain trading shop, and two [illegible] shops worth one hundred and ninety-five tumans. All the properties mentioned are the mahr of Zivar Sultan, daughter of the late Karbalayi Mahdi and wife of the late Haj Ghulam Riza. The sons of Haj Ghulam Riza settled all of the mentioned shops with their mother for one man [unit of weight] of Nurah hard sugar and one hundred dinars. Khanum Nawbar should also...
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Dividing properties of the late Mirza ‘Abd al-Razzaq among his inheritors, 1910
Properties of the late Mirza ‘Abd al-Razzaq are divided among his inheritors, including the shares of Maryam Baygum, ‘Izzat Baygum, and Aqa Sayyid Hasan
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Marriage contract of Bihjat Baygum and Tahmasb Khan, 1924
Marriage contract of Bihjat Baygum, daughter of the late Sayyid Ahmad, and Tahmasb Khan, son of the late ‘Ali Mirza-i Imam-zadah Isma‘ili; the mahr includes thirty tumans along with a Qur‘an worth one tuman.
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Marriage contract of Fakhr al-Sadat Khanum and Mashhadi ‘Abd Allah, 1914
Marriage contract between Fakhr al-Sadat Khanum, daughter of Sayyid ‘Abd Allah, and Mashhadi ‘Abd Allah, son of Karbalayi ‘Abd al-Rahman from Shiraz but residing in Tehran; the mahr is a copy of a Qurʼan and one hundred ten tumans, of which the bride received thirty tumans and the remaining eighty tumans remain the groom’s debt. The witnesses are Haj ‘Abbasquli Sahm al-Mulk Bayat from Arak and Nusrat Allah.
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Marriage contract of ʻIzzat al-Saltanah and ʻAbbas Mirza, April or May 1911
Marriage contract between Zahra Khanum (ʻIzzat al-Saltanah), daughter of Nizam al-Saltanah, and ʻAbbas Mirza, son of ʻAbd al-Husayn Mirza Farmanfarma. The sidaq (mahr) is ten thousand tumans - 1,500 tumans in cash, three shares in the village of Dalaki near Shiraz, valued at 8,500 tumans, and a handwritten Qur’an.
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Marriage contract, settlement, and divorce agreement between Saltanat Khanum and Shahzadah ‘Abbas Mirza, 1910 and 1911
Marriage contract of Saltanat Khanum (known as Mukhbar al-Saltanah), daughter of Davud Mirza, and Shahzadah [prince] ‘Abbas Mirza, son of Haj Muhammad Mahdi Mirza, on March 15, 1910; the mahr includes a Qurʼan worth twenty-five tumans, one-twelfth of [illegible] ‘Abbas Abad village, five hundred tumans, a female Abyssinian slave worth one hundred and fifty tumans, and five mans [unit of weight] of silk. On April 1, 1910, Shahzadah ‘Abbas Mirza divorced Saltanat Khanum, and since the marriage was not consummated, her mahr was cut in half. Saltanat Khanum settled half of her original mahr,...
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Petition of Haji Husayn ‘Ali about his daughter's mahr and alimony, 1915
Petition written by Haji Husayn ‘Ali Saqat-furush [the retailer] to Hujjat al-Islam Ayatollah Muhammad ‘Ali al-Husayni, about the debt of his daughter's husband to him. The debt is eighty tumans of mahr and three years of alimony, which his daughter transferred to him in another settlement. At the end, the receiver of the petition writes that Ibrahim hasn't paid his debt yet, and the wife can get divorce based on Shari‘ah (with the father acting on her behalf).
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Petition to get mahr and alimony, 1919
Draft of a petition written by the lawyer of Haji Mirza Muhammad Hasan's daughter asking for her mahr in the amount of one thousand tumans, as well as alimony and clothing expenses, from Mirza 'Abd al-Husayn Khan, before he travels out of town
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Power of attorney to collect daughter's mahr and alimony, 1912
Power of attorney given by Mashhadi Haji Mahmud, son of the late ‘Ali Riza from Shiraz, on behalf of his daughter, Khanum Hana (wife of Muhammad Husayn from Barkan), to Mirza Zayn al-‘Abidin, son of the late Haj Muhammad Hasan from Shiraz, in order to collect his own debt and his daughter's mahr, alimony, and clothing expenses from her husband, Muhammad Husayn