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Badr al-Samaʼ and Mirza ʻAli Akbar, 1915
Marriage contract between Badr al-Samaʼ, daughter of Yad Allah Mirza, and Mirza ʻAli Akbar (a Tabrizi merchant), son of Mirza Riza (a physician). The mahr includes 1500 tumans and a Qurʼan.
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Documents regarding Zarrin Taj's complaint, 1924 to 1927
Documents regarding the complaint by Zarrin Taj Khanum, daughter of Ibrahim Khan Kurd-bachchah, against Mirza Muhammad ‘Ali Khan Mu‘allim (teacher), son of Mirza Rizq Allah, over her mahr and alimony. Includes affidavits on behalf of Zarrin Taj and Zia’ Huzur, Chief Editor of Sharq newspaper, about her marriage, Mirza ‘Ali Khan's other wife and children, his refraining to pay alimony, beating Zarrin Taj and her hospitalization at the American hospital; copy of their marriage contract, power of attorney from Zarrin Taj Khanum and Mirza ‘Ali Khan to their respective attorneys; affidavit on...
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Marriage contract between Muhtaram Amiraslani and ʻAbbas Mukri, 1938
Marriage contract between Muhtaram Amiraslani and ʻAbbas Mukri on 16 September 1938. The mahr includes 4000 rials and a 100-rial Qurʼan, a mirror, a couple of lamps with marble base (320 rials), from which 2000 rials and the mirror and the lamps are received by the wife and the husband still owes 2120 rials to his wife.
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Marriage contract of Gawhar al-Saltanah and Fath‘ali Vaziri, 1918
Marriage contract of Narjis Khanum, known as Gawhar al-Saltanah, the daughter of Shahzadah Mubashshir al-Sultan, and Sultan Fath‘ali Khan [Vaziri], the son of [Bibi Khanum Astarabadi and] Musa Khan Mirpanjah [Vaziri]. The mahr is 750 tumans, a Qurʼan (worth 10 tumans), a mirror, and two lamps. Of this, the bride received 250 tumans, the mirror, and the lamps, while the remaining 500 tumans adn the 10 tumans (the value of the Qurʼan) were charged to the groom.
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Marriage contract of Mah Taban and Mirza Ismaʻil, 1888
Marriage contract of Mah Taban, daughter of Mirza Aqa Mustawfi, and Mirza Ismaʻil the accountant, son of Muʻtamad al-Sultan Mirza Ahmad Mustawfi. The mahr includes four hundred tumans in cash, a Qur'an worth thirty tumans, one male slave and one female slave worth seventy tumans, one-sixth of a residential building and a property in Tafrish, and a qanat and a creek in Tasuj. The first three items remain the groom's debt. The groom's father transferred the ownership of the qanat and the creek to the bride.
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Marriage contract of Maryam Baygum and Mirza ‘Abbas, 1909 or 1910
Marriage contract of Maryam Baygum known as Ihtiram al-Sadat, daughter of Sayyid Ahmad, and Mirza ‘Abbas, son of Mirza Mahmud. The mahr includes three hundred and sixty tumans, ten tumans of which is for a Qur’an, and one of seven shares of the groom's house located at the Darb-i Khanqah neighborhood in the Sangilaj region of Tehran.
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Marriage contract of Rubabah Najmabadi and ‘Ali Akbar Najmabadi, 1924
Marriage contract between Rubabah Najmabadi, the daughter of Shaykh Mahdi Najmabadi, and Mirza ‘Ali Akbar Najmabadi, the son of Shaykh Murtaza Najmabadi. The mahr is five hundred tumans and a Qurʼan (worth ten tumans), of which the bride received two hunderd and fifty tuman, with the other two hundred and fifty tumans and Qurʼan remains the groom's debt.
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Marriage contract of Sadiqah Najmabadi and Ahmad Najmabadi, 1924
Marriage contract between Sadiqah Najmabadi, the daughter of Shaykh Mahdi Najmabadi, and Ahmad Najmabadi, the son of Shaykh Murtaza Najmabadi. The mahr is five hundred tumans and a Qurʼan (worth ten tumans), of which the bride received two hundred and fifty tumans. The other two hundred and fifty tumans and Qurʼan remains the groom's debt.
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