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Books of Register of Aqa Sayyid ‘Abd al-Ghafur Mujtahid, 7 volumes, 1916 to 1929
Includes 7 volumes: Volume 1: May 1916-January 1919, Volume 2: April 1919-July 1920, Volume 3: March 1920-April 1921, Volume 4: February 1922-October 1924, Volume 5: September 1922-March 1929, Volume 6: October 1924-December 1927, Volume 7: June 1928-December 1929
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Shaykh Muhammad Baqir Najmabadi Books of Register, 12 volumes, 1910-1931
Records of transactions registered under the authority of Shaykh Muhammad Baqir Najmabadi (1847 or 48-1928), son of Mulla Mahdi Najmabadi and his fourth wife Zahra Khanum, and half-brother of Shaykh Hadi Najmabadi. * Vol.1, 1910-1912: transactions #1-1159 * Vol.2, 1912-1913: transactions #1160-2088 * Vol.3, 1913-1914: transactions #2090-3969 * Vol.4, 1914-1916: transactions #3970-6742 * Vol.5, 1916-1917: transactions #6743-8987 * Vol.6, 1917-1919: transactions #8988-11061 * Vol.7, 1919-1921: transactions #11063-13163 * Vol.8, 1921-1923: transactions #13164-14863 * Vol.9,...
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Marriage contract, settlement, and divorce agreement between Saltanat Khanum and Shahzadah ‘Abbas Mirza, 1910 and 1911
Marriage contract of Saltanat Khanum (known as Mukhbar al-Saltanah), daughter of Davud Mirza, and Shahzadah [prince] ‘Abbas Mirza, son of Haj Muhammad Mahdi Mirza, on March 15, 1910; the mahr includes a Qurʼan worth twenty-five tumans, one-twelfth of [illegible] ‘Abbas Abad village, five hundred tumans, a female Abyssinian slave worth one hundred and fifty tumans, and five mans [unit of weight] of silk. On April 1, 1910, Shahzadah ‘Abbas Mirza divorced Saltanat Khanum, and since the marriage was not consummated, her mahr was cut in half. Saltanat Khanum settled half of her original mahr,...
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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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Arrest of ‘Aziz Aqa for carrying a gun, 1911
‘Aziz Aqa, a female entertainer, purchased a six-shooter carrier after the brothers of her divorced husband, Sayyid Hasan from Ganjah, had threatened to kill her. She was arrested for carrying the gun on her way to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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Polyandry in India, 1910
An article published in the German local newspaper, Anzeiger, talks about the custom of polyandry in certain tribes in India
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