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Will of Muhammad Zaman, 1844
Haji Muhammad Zaman, son of Haji Muhammad Baqir from Usku, appoints Haji Mir Hashim, son of Mir Mustafa from Usku, as the executor of his will and has determined how his inheritance should be divided, including the properties that should be divided among his three sons, Qasim, Ahmad, and Muhammad Kazim. They will be responsible for paying their wives' mahr from their shares. The will also includes payment of his own wife (Narjis Khatun)'s mahr as well as twenty-two tumans; repaying a twenty tuman loan to Haji ‘Ali Akbar; endowment of listed properties and assigning his sons as the...
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Kulliyat of Tajmah Khanum
Tajmah Khanum wrote this book, composed of three parts. The first part consists of nearly 120 verses. The first poem is a sonnet written by the poet when she was 16 and the last one was written to praise Riza Shah. The second part is more than 20 letters and notes, which are mostly administrative and legal. Other letters were addressed to women who where contemporaries of Tajmah Khanum. The third part of this book is a selection of poems by Persian poets from Rudaki to the Qajar period.