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Jewish woman requests divorce from her Muslim convert husband, 1899
Petition by a Jewish woman whose husband, Mahdi, previously Jewish, has converted to Islam and married a Muslim woman. He does not agree to divorce his Jewish wife and demands she also convert to Islam, which she refuses to do.
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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...
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Marriage contract of Hamidah Khanum and Aqa Mirza Hasan, 1912-1917
The marriage contract of Hamidah Khanum, daughter of Aqa Mirza Muhammad ʻAli Dizfuli, and Aqa Mirza Hasan, son of Mashhadi Muhammad ʻAlaf. The mahr is 51 tumans and a Qurʼan. The other document is Hamidah Khanum's petition concerning her mahr.
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Miscellaneous letters, late-19th century through early-20th century
Letters include the following: a report on earnings from Farmanfarma's properties, a letter about a meeting with Farmanfarma, a letter concerning an order for bullets, a report on crop sales, a letter about Sayf Allah Mirza and financial matters, a letter about a meeting with Nizam al-‘Ulamaʼ, a telegraph sent by Bahaʼ al-Dawlah to an unidentified party, a letter from the mother of Nasir al-Dawlah to an unidentified party, a unidentified party's letter about death of a spouse, a letter from an unidentified party to Mirza ʻAbd Allah Khan Mustawfi, a letter from an unidentified woman about...
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Oath to divorce wife
A confidential letter about the actions of Mirza Fattah Qazi (judge) in Savajbulagh and his alliance with the chiefs of the tribes and nomads under oath of divorcing their wives if the alliance is broken
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Petition about an alimony dispute
An unidentified woman asks Mirza Hasan Shaykh al-Islam to intervene in an alimony dispute involving payment in wheat, kindling and lumber.
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Petition of Haydar Khan's wife to Shuja‘ Al-Dawlah, 1914
Petition by the wife of Haydar Khan (from Sarab) to Shuja‘ Al-Dawlah, who complains that her husband left her to live in Sarab seven years ago, one year after their marriage. He neither comes back nor pays her alimony. She mentions her previous complaints were to no avail and urges Shuja‘ Al-Dawlah to order Haydar Khan to take her to Sarab or pay her alimony or divorce her. On the margin, Shuja‘ Al-Dawlah has ordered Isma‘il Khan Amir Tuman to rectify her situation.
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Petition of Muhammad ʻAli Khan Qajar's divorced wife to Majlis
The divorced wife of Muhammad ʻAli Khan Qajar wrote that her ex-husband had divorced her three years prior after thirty years of marriage and that she could not support herself or her underaged son, who was supposed to receive a stipend but did not get it. She therefore asked for a stipend.
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Petition to receive rights after divorce, 1905
Petition of Bala Khanum, daughter of Mirza Mahdi, via Mirza Zayn al-‘Abidin, to the Friday prayer leader of Fars, requesting to call Mirza Riza Quli Khan Niyrizi to the court, due to her sudden divorce despite the 99-year temporary marriage contract a few days earlier, with a monthly payment of eight tumans.
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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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