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Marriage contract of Qamar and Shaykh Muhammad Hasan, 1918
Marriage contract of Qamar, the daughter of Mashhadi Muhammad ʻAli the warder, and Shaykh Muhammad Hasan, the son of Mulla Samiʻ, with a mahr of 100 tumans and some gold. The husband gave power of attorney to his wife to divorce herself after forgiving half of her mahr (or all of it, if he cannot afford it) in the fifty years after the marriage if, for six consecutive months, the husband does not pay her four tumans and five thousand [dinars] for monthly household expenses.
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Marriage contract of Qamar and Mashhadi Ahmad Turk, 1904
Marriage contract of Qamar, the daughter of Karbalayi Zayn al-ʻAbidin Turk, and Mashhadi Ahmad Turk, son of Islamʻali Turk from Badkubah [Baku], with a mahr of 150 tumans. The husband gave power of attorney to his wife so that for fifty years after the date of their marriage, if the husband goes travelling for more than two years in a row or leaves the house and does not pay the monthly alimony of one tuman and five thousand [dinars] to his wife, the wife can get a divorce after forgiving half of her mahr.
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Marriage contract of Kawkab Sultan and Mulla Ghulamhusayn, 1932
Marriage contract of Kawkab Sultan, the daughter of Habib, and Mulla Ghulamhusayn, the son of Mulla Nazar ʻAli, with a mahr of: some pieces of land, five local mans of copper worth seven tumans, ten mans of kilims and felt worth 10 tumans, two outfits to be bought for six tumans, a set of bedding worth five tumans, 50 tumans that remain the groom's debt, and two sixths of an inherited house. The husband gave power of attorney for his wife to divorce herself if he does not pay his wife the monthly alimony of 15 qirans for three years (due to travel or absence from home) in the 50 years after...
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Marriage contract of the daughter of Ustad Hasan Saffar and Ustad Ibrahim, 1873
Marriage contract of the daughter of Ustad Hasan Saffar (the son of ʻAli Muhammad Qurban) [her name is not legible] and Ustad Ibrahim, the son of Mulla Khudabakhsh. The mahr is 15 tumans, which includes: an outfit to be bought, five mans of copper, 10 mans of carpet, kilims, and felt. Nine tumans remain the groom's debt. If the groom does not give alimony to the bride in his absence, the bride can divorce herself. Also, the groom is not permitted to take the bride out of the region.