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Petition of a Jewish man, 1911
Petition of a Jewish man who writes to the Majlis that he was supposed to marry a Jewish girl and had given her father, Sulayman, 200 tumans. However, Sulayman and his family converted to Islam, as a result of which the marriage was cancelled. Sulayman has now declared that the wrtier must convert to Islam (which he is unwilling to do) before he will return the man's money.
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Letter, 1903
The letter is about Qaysar Khan, an Afghan with British citizenship, who the writer claims has financial conflicts with some locals, such as Muhammad Husayn. ʻAli Karbalayi ʻAbbas has agreed to give his daughter to Qaysar Khan in marriage. He gave eighty tumans and some clothes to ʻAli Karbalayi ʻAbbas and his daughter, and has lived with [Ustad ʻAli's] daughter in his house for a month. The writer pleads with the receipient of the letter, claiming that action must be taken to punish Ustad ʻAli, who had gone to his house [in order to make the marriage legal], and he had told him that the...
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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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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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Petition of Haydar Khan's wife to Shuja‘ Al-Dawlah, 1914
Petition by the wife of Haydar Khan (from Sarab) to Shuja‘ Al-Dawlah, who complains that her husband left her to live in Sarab seven years ago, one year after their marriage. He neither comes back nor pays her alimony. She mentions her previous complaints were to no avail and urges Shuja‘ Al-Dawlah to order Haydar Khan to take her to Sarab or pay her alimony or divorce her. On the margin, Shuja‘ Al-Dawlah has ordered Isma‘il Khan Amir Tuman to rectify her situation.
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Regarding the affair of Khanum Taj and Sayyid Karim, 1925
In a letter to Hujjat al-Islam Mirza Sadiq Aqa, the writer describes how Sayyid Karim has faked the divorce of Khanum Taj, daughter of Riza Khan Shuja‘ Lashkar and wife of Mirza Habib Allah Muntakhib Daftar, and they have fled from Amirabad village to Tabriz. After Mirza Habib Allah's complaint, Sayyid Karim bribed two Mullas and forced Mirza Habib Allah to divorce his wife in exchange for two villages, owned by Khanum Taj. Subsequently, it becomes clear that the two villages had already been sold to someone else and that Khanum Taj was four months pregnant prior to the divorce. Mirza Habib...
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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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Letters from Mirza Hasan Shaykh al-Islam to Munshi Bashi
Letters include the following: Mirza Hasan Shaykh al-Islam writes to Mirza Hasan Khan Munshi Bashi about a trip to Tunikabun; about the division of a shipment of lettuce among family members; about the government's seizure of the properties of Qamar Khanum, daughter of Sa‘d al-Saltanah; Mirza Hasan instructs Munshi Bashi to give 700 tumans to Rafʻat al-Saltanah Mulkara, wife of his deceased father, Mirza Masʻud Shaykh al-Islam, to settle a family inheritance dispute; about the state of affairs since the constitutional revolution, and the efforts of his wife, Rukhsarah Khanum, to get him to...
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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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Letters to Saʻid al-Sultan
Letters to Saʻid al-Sultan: from Muhammad Sadiq, about the destruction wrought by the gendarmerie; from Aflatun Adibi Kurdistani, apologizing for the delay in correspondence and asking for money from the Gumah valley transaction; from [Muhammad?], son of Haji Qavam, sending Nawruz greetings and a bonus, conveying his appreciation of Saʻid al-Sultan's visiting his family, and sending greetings from himself and his wife, ʻAliyah Khanum, to [Bihjat Khanum]; from [Muhammad?], son of Haji Qavam, complaining about Saʻid al-Sultan's delay in replying to two of Muhammad's previous letters in the...
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