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Petition against Hamidah Khanum, 1920
The Ottoman Empire's office at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs writes to the government of Kurdistan about the petition of Iʻtizad Divan, the officer of Kurdistan, against Hamidah Khanum. The complaint regards ownership rights to his property and he requests that the issue be addressed.
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Dispute about transferring Hurmat al-Muluk's properties to Shaykh ʻAbd al-Qadir
Khadijah Khanum Hurmat al-Muluk regrets selling her properties to Shaykh ʻAbd al-Qadir, son of Shaykh ʻUbayd Allah, and believes that she sold them under duress, but Shaykh ʻAbd al-Qadir is not willing to return the properties.
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Letter, 1912
Letter from Istanbul, explaining the reason for the delay in responding to the addressee's letter: problems in Iran and Ottoman Empire and education and family issues. The writer also mentions Ihtisham Humayun's appreciation of the addressee, inquires about addressee's going to Tehran, and sends greetings to ‘Abd al-Husayn Khan
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Nazimah Sultan's bestowal to Ottoman parliament, 1910
Nazimah Sultan, an Ottoman princess, has donated her summerhouse to the Ottoman parliament
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Zahra Khanum ʻArab to the head of the Ottoman Customs House, 1912
The author complains about the unauthorized presence of some Bakhtiyari men in her two houses and asks Shahbandar (the head of the Ottoman Customs House) to force an evacuation of the two houses
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Mirza Uvanis' complaint against Muʻazzam al-Dawlah
Documents include the following: a note indicating the debt of Karbalayi Haji, Muʻazzam al-Dawlah's companion, to Mirza Uvanis as 361 tumans, 2 qirans, and 15 shahies, in which he promises to return the money in 10 days; the office [of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs] in Hamadan writes to the British consulate that Mirza Uvanis is not a citizen of the Ottoman Empire and his complaint is therefore not related to this office. They also mention that Uvanis' complaint has been submitted, with his consent, to the Ministry of Justice, which voted against him. Nevertheless, after being convicted,...
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Ottoman women's conference, 1910
Salah Zaki Bayg, head of Madrasah-i Rushdiyah Humayuni, held the first conference at the American School in the Greek Pasha neighborhood of Istanbul
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Regarding the nationality of two thousand families in Kurdistan, 1910
Letter to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from their office in Kurdistan regarding the nationality of about two thousand families with Ottoman nationality, and restoring their Iranian nationality
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Letter of greetings and news of war
Letter about family related news and news of the progression of the war [World War I], talking about fasting in the month of Ramazan, the writer's letter to the addressee sent with Aqa Sadr, for which s/he had not received any response. S/he talks about the news of the German and Ottoman forces progressing into Iran and taking control of Kirmanshah and Hamadan and moving toward Tehran and how this news has raised the price of goods in the city; the highway robbers from Fars; the British moving towards Isfahan, and finally the hot weather in the city. The writer ends the letter with sending...
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Ottoman women's proposal, 1910
Two women, one the wife of Husayn Hilmi Pasha, the former premier, and the other the sister of Ahmad Riza Bayg, head of the parliament, met with the Sultan as representatives of Ottoman women and offered their social reform proposal
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