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Documents related to the property ʻUmar Mil, 1900-1903
Documents regarding the disputed ownership of the property ʻUmar Mil located between Khaniqayn and Qasr-i Shirin. These include: a settlement between Maʻsumah Khanum and Muhammad Ismaʻil, petitions from Maʻsumah Khanum, letters and telegrams from/to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding the case, petitions of sayyid Muhsin the merchant, telegrams from/to the Ottoman Embassy, petitions from/to Farmanfarma, Maʻsumah Khanum's call for justice, Sitarah Khanum's call for justice, Mirza Ismaʻil's call for justice, etc.
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Petition to receive money and dowry, 1918
Petition of Mirza Zayn al-‘Abidin, attorney of Sayyid ‘Abbas's wife, to Hujjat al-Islam Aqa Muhammad Husayn al-Husayni al-Najafi al-Kaziruni regarding his client's money and dowry being kept at the house of the late Haji Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Tajir [the merchant from Kazirun]'s inheritors, and their reluctance to return it
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Power of attorney from Lutf‘ali's wife, 1915
Mirza ‘Abd Allah, having the power of attorney from Lutf‘ali's wife, receives two hundred thirty tumans from Haj Mas‘ud al-Dawlah for an inheritance related matter; after Haj Mas‘ud al-Dawlah's complaint, the court rules his money be returned by Mirza ‘Abd Allah, whom in turn should receive the same amount from Lutf‘ali's wife; the woman's attorney appeals the ruling and is granted a grace period, while agents request Mirza ‘Abd Allah give immediate payment; Mirza ‘Abd Allah then complains that the two parties should be treated equally and he should also be given a grace period.
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Sulayman's complaint regarding his wife's share of inheritance, 1919
Sulayman (the son of Haji Baba Muhammad'uf), the merchant of Russian nationality and resident of Istanbul, writes to the Russian consulate in Tabriz regarding the breach of his late wife (Sughra Khanum)'s right of inheritance. The inheritance of Najaf Muhammad'uf (Sughra Khanum's father) was divided among his other children, Muhsin, Mahmud, and Sariyah Khanum, as well as Haji Javad, Sariyah Khanum's husband and the executor of her will. Sulayman states that Sughra Khanum, the eldest child of Najaf Muhammad'uf, died in Istanbul, leaving him as her lawful inheritor. He has emphasized that...
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Correspondence between Hasan Aqa and the Ministry of Justice, 1923 to 1926
Petition (in two copies) by Aqa Hasan Aqa the merchant, a resident of Tabriz, to the preliminary court of the Justice Department in Azarbayjan (November 16, 1923) regarding Haji Baba's belongings, which should be divided into five shares and given to the following: Aqa Hasan Aqa (the petitioner); Haji ‘Ali Akbar's inheritors (his wife Shikar Khanum and his children: Haji Javad Aqa, Aqa Zaynal, Khadijah Khanum, and Zahra Khanum); Aqa ‘Ali Asghar's inheritors (Aqa Riza, Kubra Khanum, and Asiyah Khanum [‘Ali Asghar's wife] who later married Haji Baba; Mashhadi Najaf's inheritors (Sughra...
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Petition to collect husband's rights
Copy of the petition written by the wife of the late Haji Muhammad ‘Alaqah-band [silk dealer] from Shiraz to the governor of Fars asking him to retrieve her entitlement from a sale agreement between her husband and Mu‘tamad al-Sultan Muhammad Hasan Khan Sartip [brigadier], son of the late Fath‘ali Khan from Nayriz, over one-sixth of Hasanabad farm of Nayriz
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Letter
The writer pleads with the Ayatollah to review the following case: the late Aqa Shaykh Muhammad ‘Ali's will was confirmed by Shabistar's ‘ulama’ after the dispute between the inheritors had been resolved. The Ayatollah and Hujjat al-Islam Haj Mirza Muhsin Aqa verified this confirmation. But, a villain named Muhammad Sadiq, who represented his wife and the children of the deceased, has caused some trouble. Having the support of the local government of Muqtadir al-Mulk, Muhammad Sadiq objected to the sale document of Aqa Haj Mirza Aqa, handwritten by the deceased, regarding one-eighth of the...
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Sulayman's petition, 1919
Sulayman (the son of Haji Baba Muhammad'uf), the merchant of Russian nationality and resident of Istanbul, writes to the Russian Consulate regarding the breach of his late wife (Sughra Khanum)'s right of inheritance. The inheritance of Najaf Muhammad'uf (Sughra Khanum's father) was divided among his other children, Muhsin, Mahmud, and Sariyah Khanum, as well as Haji Javad, Sariyah Khanum's husband and the executor of her will. Sulayman states that Sughra Khanum, the eldest child of Najaf Muhammad'uf, died in Istanbul, leaving him as her lawful inheritor. He has emphasized that Najaf...
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Baba Ganjah Muhammad'uf's petition to Russian Consulate, 1920
The writer describes the way that Haji Javad took advantage of his illness and deceitfully obtained his signature on a petition; the division of properties among the inheritors leaves out the share of the late Sughra Khanum, the daughter of the late Aqa Mashhadi Najaf, whose inheritor is her husband Sulayman Bayg; the usurpation of the writer's properties by Haji Javad and Aqa Riza [his nephew], the share of Aqa Riza's late mother, who was also the writer's wife; and Hasan Aqa's share (one-fifth from his partnership in addition to his mother's inheritance); he requests that the consulate...
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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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- Fatimah Khanum Muhammad'uf(1)
- Asiyah Khanum (wife of ‘Ali Asghar Aqa Muhammad'uf)(1)
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