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Collection of essays (Khaqaniyah)
A collection of essays with a list of contents in the beginning. It includes a part in which Shaykh Ahmad Ahsa’i answers Fathʻali Shah's questions. Two of them are about marriage in heaven and the number of wives a man can have in heaven. Sayyid Abd al-Baqi Husayni Kashani is the scribe.
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Ketubah of Sara and Yusuf, 5587 [1826 or 7]
Marriage contract of Sara, daughter of Haji Aharun with Yusuf Shalim Arzuni in 5587 [1826 or 7]. The bride is the grandmother of Muluk Yahid (Yasiyan).
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Kulsum nanah
The book of "Five ʻUlamaʼ" or "Kulsum nanah," attributed to Aqa Jamal Khansari, created originally in Safavid era. The author provides an account of women's beliefs and rituals and attributes them to five women, one of them named Kulsum nanah. The book is written in fifteen chapters, including: on ablution, on women's prayers, on fasting, on marriage, on the wedding night, on childbirth, on first bath after giving birth, on musical instruments and when they should be played, on wives and husbands relations, on foods for vows, to prevent evil eye, on mahrams, on acceptance of women's...
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Letter to wife regarding divorce, 1822 or 1823
The writer objects to divorce the addressee and mentions his request of mediation from Mahd-i ‘Ulya and Nasir al-Din Shah
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Marriage contract between Maryam Khanum and Aqa Muhammad Riza, 1826
Marriage contract between Maryam Khanum, the daughter of Aqa Zayn al-ʻAbidin (son of Haji Mulla Rahim from Garmsir) and Muhammad Riza, the son of Aqa Ramazan. The mahr is 30 tumans and should be paid whenever the bride requests it. June 18, 1826.
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Marriage contract between Sakinah Khanum and Aqa Muhammad Saʻid, 1825
Marriage contract between Sakinah Khanum, the daughter of Aqa Muhammad Sadiq, and Aqa Muhammad Saʻid, the son of Aqa Ismaʻil, dated April or May 1825. The mahr is 60 tumans, a female slave worth 21 tumans, four sixths of a building in Fath Abad, two pieces of land in Vadasht, and a garden in Fath Abad. On the verso [Sakinah Khanum], has transferred a piece of land (with an area of 25 qafiz) in Vadasht, along with its crops and hay, to Muhammad Baqir, the son of Mirza Kazim the physician, in exchange for another piece of land (with an area of 7 qafiz) that includes a garden in the...
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Marriage contract between Shahrbanu and Mirza Husayn, 1833
Marriage contract between Shahrbanu, the daughter of Aqa Ismaʻil, and Mirza Husayn, the son of Haj Sadiq, dated May 8, 1833. The mahr includes 30 tumans cash, a room's carpets, including rugs and felt rugs worth 34 tumans, a qalamkar bed covering worth 4 tumans, and parts of some properties. On the verso: "Mirza Rahim, Muhammad Baqir, and their sister, Khadijah Khanum, who are the children of Mirza Husayn, settled with full consent whatever rights they had to their mother's mahr. June 28, 1875. [Shahrbanu Khanum] settled with her three children, four and half sixths of the buildings in the...
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Marriage contract of Badr al-Nisa’ Baygum and Mirza Abu al-Qasim al-Husayni, 1831
Marriage contract of Badr al-Nisa’ Baygum, the daughter of Mirza Muhammad al-Husayni, and Mirza Abu al-Qasim al-Husayni, the son of Mirza Muhammad Kazim al-Husayni; the mahr is one hundred tumans, including a property in Nayshabur (10 tumans), carpet (7.5 tumans), beddings (5 tumans), seven misqals [unit of weight] of red gold (3.5), 10 mans [unit of weight] of copperware (5 tumans), and a female Abyssinian slave (9 tumans).
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Marriage contract of Bibi Kuchak and Muhammad Baqir, 1826
Marriage contract of Bibi Kuchak, the daughter of Ustad Husayn Fakhkhar from Yazd, and Muhammad Baqir, son of Hasan (son of Zu al-Fiqar Naqi) with a mahr of 20 tumans, which includes: 10 shares of the shared ownership of a house (the ownership of which was divided into 80 shares), an outfit worth 10 tumans, two-and-a-half Shah-mans [each is six kilograms] of copper worth five tumans, gold, and a carpet for covering a room, worth five tumans. The groom's mother contributed the gold and the house, his father contributed the carpet, and the rest remain the groom's debt.
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Marriage contract of Fatimah Khanum and Husayn, 1814
Marriage contract of Fatimah Khanum, the daughter of Salman, and Husayn, the son of Akhund Mulla Yusuf. The mahr is thirty five tumans.
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- Astan-i Quds (11)
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- Tabriz Document Center and Library(2)
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