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Letter written by the attorney of Sayyid Husayn's wife to the lower court, 1929
Sayyid Husayn coercively divorced his wife, in the presence of Sayyid Abu al-Qasim (prayer leader of ‘Ali mosque), with the wife waiving her mahr and the condition of no return after divorce. Now after five months, when she wants to marry another man, Sayyid Husayn claims that he wants to remarry her, even though her marriage contract has been abrogated.
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Marriage contract of Khanum Hajiyah and Mashhadi Husayn Misgar, 1928
Marriage contract of Khanum Hajiyah, daughter of Mashhadi Karim Qassab [the butcher] from Shiraz, and Mashhadi Husayn Misgar [the coppersmith], son of Karbalayi Aqa Buzurg from Shiraz; the mahr includes sixty tumans, a Qur‘an worth one tuman, one misqal [unit of weight] of gold, ten misqals of green silk, one charik [unit of weight] of palm starch, and five mans [unit of weight] of salt. The mahr remains the groom's debt.
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Hajiyah Zivar Sultan's invoices, 1903 to 1906
Hajiyah Zivar Sultan's invoices to Khayr al-Haj Abu al-Qasim ‘Alaqah-band [the silk maker] from 1903 to 1906
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Marriage contract of Bibi Khanum Batul and Aqa Mirza Muhammad Riza, 1906
Marriage contract of Bibi Khanum Batul, daughter of Mirza Muhammad from Shiraz, and Aqa Mirza Muhammad Riza, son of Haji Aqa ‘Ali from Fasa; the mahr includes two hundred tumans, twenty misqals [unit of weight] of gold, one charik [unit of weight] of green silk, along with a Qur‘an worth one tuman. The wife was granted the right to determine the location of their residence.
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Petition from Maryam Sultan to Friday prayer-leader
Petition of Maryam Sultan, wife of Mirza Muhammad Riza, to Hujjat al-Islam, the Friday prayer-leader. In it, she states that Mirza Muhammad Riza has triple-divorced her and gone to Fasa for seven months while owing her a two-hundred tuman debt and her mahr.
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Wedding invitation
Marriage ceremony of Aqa Karbalayi Muhammad, son of Muhammad Kazim at the house of Haj Ghulam Husayn
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Bihjat Khanum's claim regarding her mahr and alimony, 1926
Bihjat Khanum, daughter of the late Sayyid Muhammad, gives the power of attorney to Sayyid Sulayman in order to claim alimony and her mahr from her husband Tahmasb Khan, son of the late ‘Ali Mirza. Her husband has not paid any alimony since they married two years ago. Ayatollah Muhammad Ja‘far approves Bihjat Khanum's claims and rules against Tahmasb Khan, the husband.
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‘Azra's letter for confirming her marriage and mahr, 1935
Letter written by ‘Azra, daughter of Haj Mirza Husayn Sharif, to Mirza Sayyid Ahmad Pish-namaz [the prayer leader] requesting him to confirm her marriage to the late Mirza Muhammad Riza with a mahr of three hundred tumans, ten misqals [unit of weight] of gold, a Qurʼan worth five tumans, and ten misqals of silk. He confirms her claims and points out that she had settled one hundred and fifty tumans of her mahr with the late Mirza Muhammad Riza.
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Petition of Haj Ghulam Husayn about his son-in-law's debt
Haj Ghulam Husayn writes a petition to Haj Shaykh Yahya, the Friday prayer-leader of Fars, regarding what Mirza Lutf Allah owes him and his daughter, including: one thousand tumans as a dowry, eight hundred tumans as his daughter's alimony and clothing expenses, and one hundred tumans as his daughter's mahr, which remains Mirza Lutf Allah's debt.
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Letter
Letter about the writer's illness and loneliness, a fifty-two year old woman who wants to get married, discontent about staying in Shiraz, promising to send orange seedlings before Nawruz, complaining about the mujtahid who has instructed the addressee's sister to ask for alimony, and some other news
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