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Marriage contract of Qamar Sultan Khanum and Mirza Hasan Khan Mukarram al-Sultan, 1925
Marriage contract of Qamar Sultan Khanum, the daughter of Mirza Muhammad Khan Munshi Bashi, and Mirza Hasan Khan Mukarram al-Sultan, the son of Aqa Muhammad Sadiq Aqa the merchant from Kashan. The mahr is a Qurʼan, a Kashmir shawl, a diamond ring, and eight hundred tumans. Part of the mahr has been paid and the rest remains the groom's debt. The conditions of the marriage contract are the following: for five years, Qamar Sultan Khanum has the right to divorce if her husband is absent for more than a year, or does not pay living expenses. The groom also promises that for fifty years he will...
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Marriage agreement of Rubabah Aqayi and Fath Allah Jamshidi, 1935
Marriage agreement of Rubabah Aqayi, daughter of Haydar ʻAli from Khuzan, and Fath Allah Jamshidi, son of Ramazan ʻAli from Khuzan. The mahr includes twenty-six tumans and two thousand five hundred dinars, one-twelfth of a residential building located in the Shamsabad neighborhood of Khuzan, some properties in the Andan village known as Jaʻfarabad, and one pair of gold earrings worth ten tumans. Additionally, ten tumans will be paid as the bridal gift to buy women's clothes.
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Description of courtships and marriages of ʻImad al-Saltanah
ʻImad al-Saltanah wrote this booklet about the description of women who were considered for him to court. This booklet includes 10 pages.
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Mahyar Khalili's interview
Mahyar Khalili's interview conducted by Afsaneh Najmabadi, Farshideh Mirbaghdadabadi and Mihrdad Ghaffari on 6 June 2013. Mahyar Khalili shares his memory of old time weddings, and also other memories related to family members.
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Correspondence of I‘timad al-Atibba’ (Sultan al-Atibba’) and his son Mu‘tamad al-Sultan
Correspondence of I‘timad al-Atibba’ (Sultan al-Atibba’) and his son Mu‘tamad al-Sultan, including several letters concerning family, business, and household affairs.
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Surur al-Saltanah and Mu‘azzaz al-Mulk love letters, 1909 to 1910
Love letters of ‘Abd al-Husayn Mu‘azzaz al-Mulk (Taymurtash), son of Karim Dad Khan, to Surur al-Saltanah, daughter of Zarrin Kulah Khanum and Khazin al-Mulk, accompanied by some envelopes and part of a letter, probably from Surur al-Saltanah to Mu‘azzaz al-Mulk. These letters were most likely written during the time between their ‘Aqd (formal contract of marriage) and ‘Arusi (marriage celebration and consummation), while Surur al-Saltanah was living in Tehran and Mu‘azzaz al-Mulk was traveling between Tehran and Khurasan; the letters have also been separately included in this collection;...
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Parvanah Sulaymani- part 1
Parvanah Sulaymani's interview conducted by Farshideh Mirbaghdadabadi, on December 4, 2018; Parvanah Khanum shares memories of her childhood, her mother and father, and other family members
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