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Badr al-Sadat Afqahi's interview- part I
Conducted on November 17, 2012 by Afsaneh Najmabadi, Mahbobe Ghods, and Maryam Momeni. She shares memories of her childhood and youth and talks about life in the late Qajar and Pahlavi eras.
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Booklet of Writing on Babi Religion
This booklet is about the lives of Bab and his followers, as well as his writings.
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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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Houri Mostofi Moghadam's Interview
Houri Mostofi Moghadam's interview conducted by Afsaneh Najmabadi and Manoutchehr Eskandari-Qajar on 29 October 2009. She shares her memories of family members, acquaintances, and the daily life and rituals of people, especially women, in the Qajar era.
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Kamran Dowlatshahi's Interview
Kamran Dowlatshahi's interview conducted by Afsaneh Najmabadi and Manoutchehr Eskandari-Qajar in Davood Mirza Muzaffari Qajar's house on 30 October 2009. He shares his memories of family members, acquaintances, and the daily life and rituals of people, especially women, in the Qajar era.
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Marriage contract of Bibi Khanum Batul and Aqa Mirza Muhammad Riza, 1906
Marriage contract of Bibi Khanum Batul, daughter of Mirza Muhammad from Shiraz, and Aqa Mirza Muhammad Riza, son of Haji Aqa ‘Ali from Fasa; the mahr includes two hundred tumans, twenty misqals [unit of weight] of gold, one charik [unit of weight] of green silk, along with a Qur‘an worth one tuman. The wife was granted the right to determine the location of their residence.
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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 Khanum Hajiyah and Mashhadi Husayn Misgar, 1928
Marriage contract of Khanum Hajiyah, daughter of Mashhadi Karim Qassab [the butcher] from Shiraz, and Mashhadi Husayn Misgar [the coppersmith], son of Karbalayi Aqa Buzurg from Shiraz; the mahr includes sixty tumans, a Qur‘an worth one tuman, one misqal [unit of weight] of gold, ten misqals of green silk, one charik [unit of weight] of palm starch, and five mans [unit of weight] of salt. The mahr remains the groom's debt.
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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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