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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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Power of attorney to obtain a woman's mahr, 1909
A woman has given the power of attorney to Karbalayi Amr Allah to obtain her mahr, alimony, and other expenses from her husband, Haji Muhammad Ibrahim (Mashhadi Kazim's son)
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Settlement between Agha Tikkah Khanum and her husband Fath Allah, 1907
Settlement between Agha Tikkah Khanum (daughter of Haji Mirza ‘Ali Muhammad from Shiraz) and her husband, Fath Allah (son of the late Haji Abu al-Qasim son of Haji Rustam Anbar-dar [storage keeper]), over one-fourth of the late Haji Abu al-Qasim's inheritance (which includes Agha Tikkah Khanum's mahr of sixty tumans and also an additional one thousand tumans) for one hundred and twenty tumans, and an additional charik [unit of weight] of sugar cubes as the cost of detriment.
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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,...