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Copy of a marriage contract between Kulsum and Akhund Mulla Qasim, 1858
Copy of a marriage contract between Kulsum, daughter of Akhund Mulla Husayn, and Akhund Mulla Qasim, son of Karbalayi ʻAli Muhammad, with a mahr of 800 Nasiri rials, which includes: half a share of the twelve shares of Karizak farm, worth 40 tumans, part of a property in Nayshabur, worth 10 tumans, 16 tumans in cash for clothes, gold worth 8 tumans, six mans [each man is three kilograms] of copper worth six tumans.
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Letter
From Zahir al-Sultan in Sistan to Prince Ibtihaj Sultan in Tehran. Envelope dated 2 November 1914. It concerns the problems raised by a certain Sartip [brigader] who has asked for the hand of a twelve-year old girl. He is already married with children; the girl is against the match and especially does not want to move to Birjand away from her family. The writer offers some alternative resolutions, emphasizing that a forced marriage may result in tribal disputes, and in any case, an unhappy woman does not make a good wife.
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Letter, 1903
The letter is about Qaysar Khan, an Afghan with British citizenship, who the writer claims has financial conflicts with some locals, such as Muhammad Husayn. ʻAli Karbalayi ʻAbbas has agreed to give his daughter to Qaysar Khan in marriage. He gave eighty tumans and some clothes to ʻAli Karbalayi ʻAbbas and his daughter, and has lived with [Ustad ʻAli's] daughter in his house for a month. The writer pleads with the receipient of the letter, claiming that action must be taken to punish Ustad ʻAli, who had gone to his house [in order to make the marriage legal], and he had told him that the...
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Marriage contract between Bibi Layla and Muhammad Husayn, 1927
Marriage contract between Bibi Layla, the daughter of Karbalayi Sayyid ʻAbbas (son of Karbalayi Sayyid Maʻsum from Birjand), and Muhammad Husayn, son of Mulla Zayn al-ʻAbidin, on January 24, 1927. The mahr, which is 84 tumans and will remain the bridegroom's debt, includes: two shares of half of a day's use of the water from the qanat of Hasanabad farm for 32 tumans, half of a house in Arviz village for 6 tumans, kilims and felt for carpeting one room for four tumans, four women's dresses to buy and to make for five tumans, ten mans [each man equals three kilograms] of copper for six...
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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 the daughter of Karbalayi ʻAbidin and Mulla ʻAli, 1900
Marriage contract between the daughter of Karbalayi ʻAbidin [her name is not mentioned] [son of] Ustad Rajabʻali and Mulla ʻAli, the son of Ustad ʻAbd Allah [son of] Ustad ʻAli Asghar, on January 19, 1900. The mahr includes some pieces of land, copper, carpets, clothings, a set of bedding, and a house to be purchased later.
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Marriage contract of Batul Baygum and Mirza Muhammad, 1925
Marriage contract of Batul Baygum, the daughter of Haj Mirza Muhammad ʻAli, and Mirza Muhammad, the son of Mirza Shaʻban. The mahr is 1000 tumans, which includes: one sixth of a house worth 500 tumans, copper worth 60 tumans, four sheep and goats worth 100 tumans, one woolen carpet worth 100 tumans, a set of bedding worth 50 tumans, and a carpet worth 160 tumans.
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Marriage contract of Bibi Baygum and Mirhusayn, 1859
Marriage contract of Bibi Baygum, the daughter of Sayyid Riza the Chukha [woolen dress] seller, and Mirhusayn, the son of Sayyid Mahdi. The mahr includes: 14 tumans cash, some gold, 14 mans of copperware, carpet to cover a room, worth four tumans, a set of bedding for two tumans, part of a house that the groom's father gave him and, with his permission, made part of the mahr, and some properties the bride's grandfather, Haj Mirza Zayn al-ʻAbidin the Chukha seller, gave to the groom, which the groom made part of the mahr with the latter's permission.
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Marriage contract of Bibi Bilqays and Shaykh Muhammad Mahdi, 1891
Marriage contract of Bibi Bilqays, daughter of Mirza Muhammad ʻAli Mustawfi, and Shaykh Muhammad Mahdi known as Badiʻ al-Shuʻara, son of Sadr al-Zakirin, with a mahr of 300 tumans, which includes: 60 tumans in cash paid to the bride, one of the twelve shares from a series of qanat in Nayshabur worth 150 tumans, a property worth 75 tumans, and some gold that remains the groom's debt. Gawhar, daughter of Haj Husayn Haj al-Haramayn, mother of Mulla Sulayman, signed to give permission to the transfer of the share of ʻAli Abad's farm.
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Marriage contract of Bibi Khanum and Sayyid Muhammad, 1847
Marriage contract of Bibi Khanum, the daughter of Asad Allah the weaver, and Sayyid Muhammad, with a mahr of 40 tumans, which remains groom's debt.