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Documents about the punishment of the marriage cleric of Muhammad Bayg's wife
Documents include a report explaining that Gurgin Khan Shujaʻ Lashgar kidnapped Muhammad Bayg Dashti's wife when Muhammad Bayg was still alive and married her. After the arrival of Shaykh ʻAbd al-Qadir to Margavar village, he summons the cleric who officiated this marriage ceremony and orders that his hands be cut off; a report from Urumiyah about the punishment of this cleric and about the feud between Muhammad Bayg's brothers and Gurgin Khan's brothers; and a request to confirm the truth of the punishment, which asks that it be sent to Tehran in code in order to inform the embassy of...
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Correspondence regarding claim by Parviz Khan's sister, 1916 to 1917
Documents include a petition by the sister of Parviz Khan to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, claiming that ‘Aziz Khan Ihtisham Huzur refrains from returning her belongings; a letter by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs asking the Police Department for a background check on Ihtisham Huzur; and the result of Ihtisham Huzur's clearance and referrring the complaint to the public court.
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Petitions and requests submitted to Mirza Hasan Shaykh al-Islam and Munshi Bashi
Petitions and requests, including the following: one to Mirza Hasan Shaykh al-Islam petitioning for assistance in recovering Fatimah Sultan Khanum's share of her father's inheritance. Fatimah Sultan Khanum was the daughter of Haj Muhammad Baqir, the sister of Yumn al-Saltanah, and the wife of Asad Allah Sarhang. Another is a petition to Mirza Hasan Shaykh al-Islami about the division of inheritance and the reply; another is a petition to Mirza Hasan Shaykh al-Islam from the mother of a murdered man; in another, an unidentified woman asks Mirza Hasan Shaykh al-Islam to intervene in an...
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Khvurshid Khanum's petitions, 1908
Petitions by Khvurshid Khanum, daughter of Aqa Riza, from Barfurush, to Mukhbir al-Saltanah, Minister of Justice, explaining how following her parents death, when she was three years old, her uncle, ‘Abbasquli Khan, seeking her inheritance of more than fifty thousand tumans worth of property, took her in. After ten years, he married her off to his grandson, son of I‘timad Divan, despite her discontent. I‘timad Divan never paid her her share of inheritance with the excuse that she was his son's wife. Khvurshid Khanum wants a divorce and is willing to waive her mahr, which is more than ten...