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ʻAziz al-Saltanah's petition to Nayib al-Saltanah
Petition from ʻAziz al-Saltanah, Nasir al-Din Shah's daughter, to Nayib al-Saltanah in which she mentions her having been born shortly after her father was killed, how she had lived all her life with her mother [Mahbub al-Saltanah] and that she had not inherited anything from her father. After the Constitutional Revolution, the Majlis had cut her pension to 1000 tumans. However, Mirza Fath Allah Khan, the provincial treasurer of Gilan, returned her payslip claiming that the money has been paid to Sardar Afkham. ʻAziz al-Saltanah writes about the hardship she has gone through and how she has...
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Identifying Shahzadah Khanum's financial rights, 1906
Written on the envelope: "Determining Shahzadah Khanum's financial rights and what Muhammad Riza Khan, the brigadier of Urumiyah owes her, as testified by a group of Urumiyah's wealthy gentlemen."
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Letter, 1904
The writer [probably female] is concerned about the addressee, as she had not heard from him since he left for Tehran; she had prepared a telegram to send him, but then his letter arrived and she was overjoyed; she talks about the sufrah ceremony; has sent him some mahi azad [salmon], olives, and smoked fish; sends greetings on behalf of Hajiyah Khanum, Khanumjan (her mother), Nur al-Hajiyah, and the female servants; reports that she has been dreaming about the addressee for the last three nights; discusses the epidemic in Rasht; asks about the well-being of Aqa Muhammad Taqi; reports on...
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Letter
Letter consists of family news, including: receiving the envelope and the lamb, that Basir Nizam has not given them the money yet, that Munavvar and Fatimah were not getting along and Munavvar has gone to her father's house, that the writer has asked Na’ib to come and get the children because of they were very upset, the request by the addressee's sister to purchase the properties of Haji Muhammad ‘Arab across from the ‘Arab mosque, but the writer does not have the money, Hamid Aqa's visit, asking the addressee to visit at the beginning of Muharram, that government officials receive a...
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Questions and answers
Questions for Sayyid Abu al-Hasan Mujtahid Isfahani, including various issues related to prayer and ablution; transactions with apostates; a person who has transferred his properties to his sons a few hours before his death, excluding his daughter from inheritance; bestowing a pair of silver hamsa amulets; urinating and ablution in a public bath; divorce after a woman's menstruation; and the need for a muhallil after three divorces
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