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Letter about Sakinah Khanum's distress
A person from the local government of Kirmanshah wants to marry Sakinah Khanum, wife of the late ‘Abd al-Rahim. Despite the pressure, she did not accept the proposal. After a few days of threats, several women came to Sakinah Khanum's house and beat her up. She had no choice other than taking refuge in the house of Ahmad Bayg Shahbandar with her two children. The author asks for an investigation of this case.
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Badr al-Sadat Afqahi's interview- part II
Conducted on November 17, 2012 by Afsaneh Najmabadi, Mahbobe Ghods, ‘Ali Ya‘qubi, and Maryam Momeni. She shares memories of her childhood and youth and talks about the life in late Qajar and Pahlavi era.
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Badr al-Sadat Afqahi's interview- part I
Conducted on November 17, 2012 by Afsaneh Najmabadi, Mahbobe Ghods, and Maryam Momeni. She shares memories of her childhood and youth and talks about life in the late Qajar and Pahlavi eras.
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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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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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