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Haji Mulla Husayn's settlement, 1884
The document reads, in part: Haji Mulla Husayn, the preacher, settled his property in Sarshur district to his two underage sons, Aqa Shaykh Muhammad Baqir and Aqa Shaykh ʻAbd al-ʻAli. Until thirty years from the date of this document, the benefits of the settled property are for Haji Mulla Husayn. When he dies and the underage children come of age, with the knowledge of their mother, who will oversee the execution of the will, they have to pay 200 tumans of the benefit as Khums [religious tithe] over the course of four years, paying 50 tumans each years. [On margin:] After four years of...
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Letter, 1913
Letter from Fars State Court to Mirza Zayn al-‘Abidin regarding his wife's settlement and her will, and referring him to the endowment court
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Settlement between Mah Sultan and Aqa Mirza Kuchak, 1928
Hajiyah Bibi [Khayr al-Nisa’ Baygum Mah Sultan], the wife of the late Haj ‘Abd al-Husayn Sahib Amin al-Tujjar, has transferred all of her belongings to Aqa Mirza Kuchak, the son of her daughter, a descendent of the late Muhammad Sahib Amin al-Tujjar, in exchange for one-fourth of a rupee, with two conditions: first, that Hajiyah Bibi retains the right to spend these belongings for the next twenty lunar years; second, that after Hajiyah Bibi's death, Aqa Mirza Kuchak spend five hundred rupees for her funeral and charity in addition to hiring someone to fast and pray on her behalf.
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Mah Sultan's will, 1903
Khayr al-Nisa’ Baygum, known as Mah Sultan, the daughter of Haji Mirza ‘Abd al-Muttalib, has appointed Aqa Mirza Muhammad Sahib Amin al-Tujjar, the son of Haji ‘Abd al-Husayn Amin al-Tujjar from Shiraz, as the executor of her will regarding her inherited property from her late husband, Haj ‘Abd al-Husayn, as her mahr and as half of her one-eighth share. Khayr al-Nisa’ has left all her belongings to her daughter, Fatimah Baygum known as Bibi Kuchak, for which she is responsible for the cost of forty years of prayers and fast on behalf of her mother.
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Haji Hasan's book of documents
Haji Hasan's book of documents - book 4 - documents related to women are the following: seq 4: settlement between ʻAliriza Bayg, son of the deceased Muhammad Bayg ʻUmar Quli, with the permission of ʻAliriza Bayg's wife, Khadijah Sultan Khanum, and Maryam Khanum, sister of Khadijah Sultan Khanum, both daughters of the deceased ʻAbd al-Muhammad Bayg ʻUmar Quli, and Aqa Muhammad Hasan, representative of the United Kingdom, for three shares of the joint ownership of their paternal inheritance, including buildings, land, and some other rights, for 1100 tumans, September 2, 1871; seq 6: Qamar...
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Settlement of ‘Aliyah Khanum and Sakinah Khanum, 1932
Haji Isma‘il ‘Arab had assigned one thousand five hundred tumans for each of his daughters, ‘Aliyah Khanum and Sakinah Khanum, and appointed Haji Muhammad Husayn as the executor of his will and guardian of his daughters. According to this settlement between Mir’at al-Saltanah, on behalf of ‘Aliyah Khanum and Sakinah Khanum, and Ra’is al-Vikalah and Mirza Salman from Haris, on behalf of Haji Muhammad Husayn, the two sisters should be paid an amount of two thousand five hundred tumans from the assets owned by Ahmad Aqa and ‘Ali Aqa, the sons of Haji Isma‘il.
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Interview with Poori Soltani
Interview with Poorandokht Soltani, conducted by Farshideh Mirbaghdadabadi and Afsaneh Najmabadi on 18 June 2013. After introducing members of her family in the previous and current generations (with reference to photographs and documents), she shares memories of her mother and grandmother, and in the end she mentions her marriage with Murtaza Kayvan.
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Settlement and will of Haji Mulla Husayn, 1882
The document reads in part: Haji Mulla Husayn, the preacher, settled 1500 tumans with three of his sons, Mirza Muhammad Riza Khadim, Shaykh Muhammad Baqir, and Shaykh ʻAbd al-ʻAli, for a man [three kilograms] of salt. If the settlor dies and the two underage sons [Shaykh Muhammad Baqir and Shaykh ʻAbd al-ʻAli] are adults at the time of executing the will, the settled money, 1500 tumans, should be used for the expenses of the burial, funeral, and other religious duties. Mulla Husayn himself testified to the changes applied to both wills and they are correct. If Mulla Husayn dies while the...
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Quds al-Dawlah's financial documents
The financial documents of Hafiyyah Khanum (Quds al-Dawlah), wife of Mirza Nasr Allah Khan Mushir al-Dawlah: Quds al-Dawlah's lists of her possessions, including jewelries, invoices and checks, one of them dated 1905 or 1906; Quds al-Dawlah's accounting documents (1907-1909), one of them mentions Mu’taman al-Mulk's seal on a check (he was Quds al-Dawlah's son); checks from the Jamshidiyan firm in Tehran addressed to Quds al-Dawlah and some handwritten notes regarding her debt to the firm (1908-1910); a Russian check (1909); a letter and envelope from Jamshidiyan firm regarding Quds...
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Related to Shaykh Abu Turab's will and division of his inheritance, 1866 to 1921
These documents include: 1- settlement of the properties, located at Baram plain, among Shaykh Abu Turab's brother, Haj Zayn al-‘Abidin, and Shaykh Abu Turab's inheritors, his wives, Raziyah Sultan Baygum and ‘Izzat Nisa’ Baygum, and his children, Shaykh Majd al-Din, Shaykh ‘Abd al-Nabi, Asiyah Khatun, Bibi Khanum Sultan, Bibi Nusrat Sultan, and Marziyah Sultan Baygum (May 2, 1866); 2- three documents regarding the division of the inheritance of Shaykh Abu Turab, the former Imam Jum‘ah of Fars. Based on his will and under supervision of Mushir al-Mamalik, the executor of the will, and Zayn...
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