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Marriage contract of Sadiqah Khanum and Mirza Mahdi Quli, 1927
Marriage contract of Sadiqah Khanum, daughter of Mirza Sayyid Muhammad Husayn, and Mirza Mahdi Quli, son of Mirza Sayyid Asad Allah. The mahr is one hundred tumans, which includes a Qurʼan worth twenty-five tumans, white gold worth twenty-five tumans, women's clothing worth twenty-five tumans, and twenty-five tumans in cash. The groom and his father settled some properties and some water channels for fourteen riyals of the mahr with the bride.
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Marriage contract of Banu Khanum and Haj Ghulam Riza, 1921
Marriage contract of Banu Khanum, daughter of the late Haj Javad Darvish, and Haj Ghulam Riza, son of the late Darvish Muhammad Husayn. The mahr includes twenty-one tumans, a Qur'an, parts of a building in the Aqa neighborhood, shares of land in the Ab Bariki Plain, and a share of qanat water in the same plain. On the margin: "On 22 January 1926, Darvish Ghulam Riza sold Banu Khanum's share of the land with her permission, and instead, they included another piece of land as her mahr. On 11 Decemeber 1926, Banu Khanum settled her share of the building with Yad Allah, son of the late Darvish...
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Marriage contract of Sughra and Riza, 1919
Marriage contract of Sughra, the underage daughter of Ghulam ‘Ali son of Haj Isma‘il, and Riza, son of the late ‘Ali son of Rajab from Muhammadabad. The mahr includes ten tumans, one-third of a residential building in Muhammadabad, ten tumans to buy copperware, ten tumans to buy rugs and a chest, three tumans to buy a gold ring, and seven tumans to buy exquisite women's clothes.
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Marriage contract of Kawkab Sultan and Haj Mulla ‘Abd al-‘Ali, 1923
Marriage contract of Kawkab Sultan, daughter of Mulla Ghulam Husayn, son of Muhammad Hasan, and Haj Mulla ‘Abd al-‘Ali, son of Muhammad ‘Ali. The mahr includes twenty-five tumans as an initial gift, twenty-five tumans for women's clothing, twenty-five tumans for rugs, twenty-five tumans for gold, some properties, and a share of water use. The groom settled the properties and the share of water use with the bride for fourteen riyals of the mahr.
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An interview with ‘Iffat Aminzadah
‘Iffat Aminzadeh's interview conducted by Afsaneh Najmabadi, Farshideh Mirbaghdadabadi, and Marjan Riahi on June 9, 2015. ‘Iffat Aminzadeh shares her memories of her family members, especially her mother and her great aunt, Kafi Navvab Safavi, who was called "Shazdah Khalah."
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Marriage contract of Khadijah and Kazim from Isfarjan, 1830
Marriage contract of Khadijah, daughter of ʻAli Naqi from Isfarjan, and Kazim from Isfarjan. The mahr includes three tumans, four misqals [unit of weight] of golden jewelry, copperware, a set of local women’s clothes and a set of European women's clothes, chintz bedding from Isfahan, a rug, one colorful kilim, a pair of felt rugs, and for the purchase price of some properties.
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Marriage contract of Khadijah Sultan Khanum Saffar Harandi and Ustad ‘Abbas Saffar Harandi, 1891
Marriage contract of Khadijah Sultan Khanum, daughter of Ustad Muhammad Husayn Saffar Harandi, and Ustad ‘Abbas, son of Ustad Isma‘il Saffar Harandi. The mahr includes three tumans and three thousand dinars. The groom settled with the bride, exchanging three thousand dinars of the mahr and one hundred units of the preceding measure of wheat for twenty misqals [unit of weight] of gold, twenty mans [unit of weight] of copperware, two sets of silk women's clothes, one set of qalamkar women's clothes, one set of qalamkar bedding and one set of chintz bedding from Burujird, a rug, leaning...
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Marriage contract of Jan Jan Khanum and Muhammad Karim, 1842 or 1843
Marriage contract of Jan Jan Khanum, daughter of Aqa Muhammad from Karvan village, and Muhammad Karim, son of Muhammad ‘Ali Tihrani Karvan. The mahr is three hundred tumans. The groom settled the following items in exchange for two hundred and sixty tumans of the mahr: a portion of land and part of a garden/orchard in Hurmanan village, part of a garden/orchard in Divun Farm, some qanats and part of a residential house in Hurmanan village, and a house, along with its stable and garden. The groom also promised if the marriage lasted and the bride obeyed him, he would buy the following items...
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Marriage and divorce contracts of Baygum Khanum and Murad ‘Ali, 1891
Marriage and divorce contracts of Baygum Khanum, daughter of the late Aqa Taqi, and Murad ‘Ali, son of the late Kazim. The mahr includes one tuman and five thousand dinars, one-and-a-half misqals of golden jewelery, copperware, European chintz clothes, a set of bedding made in Qumshah, kilim and a felt rug, and one-sixth of the groom's residential building located in the Ustad Qasim the Carpenter neighborhood of Asfarjan village. On April 26, 1894, the wife settled her mahr and alimony with her husband for two tumans, a donkey, two mans [unit of weight] of flour, a pair of shoes, four zar‘...
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Bibi Khanum's interview
Interview with Bibi Khanum Farahmand, conducted by Afsaneh Najmabadi, Farshideh Mirbaghdadabadi, Layla Sadiqi, and Elahe Bagheri, on June 25, 2015. Bibi Khanum, the daughter of Rubabah Khanum and Nayib Khan, shares her memories of Sakinah Khanum, other women of the family, and family relations.
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