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Marriage contract of Ziyaʼ Ashraf and ‘Izzat Allah (Bayat), 1 March 1924
Marriage contract of Ziyaʼ Ashraf, daughter of Zahra Imami Ziyaʼ al-Saltanah and Muhammad Musaddiq (Musaddiq al-Saltanah), and ‘Izzat Allah (Bayat), son of Sahm al-Mulk. The sidaq (mahr) is 7,000 tumans (4,000 in jewelry and 3,000 in cash) and two dangs (two-sixth shares) of the village of Zahir Abad, valued at 5,000 tumans.
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Marriage contract of ʻIzzat al-Saltanah and ʻAbbas Mirza, April or May 1911
Marriage contract between Zahra Khanum (ʻIzzat al-Saltanah), daughter of Nizam al-Saltanah, and ʻAbbas Mirza, son of ʻAbd al-Husayn Mirza Farmanfarma. The sidaq (mahr) is ten thousand tumans - 1,500 tumans in cash, three shares in the village of Dalaki near Shiraz, valued at 8,500 tumans, and a handwritten Qur’an.
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Marriage contract of ʻAbd al-Vahhab Khan and Shahrbanu Baygum
Marriage contract of Aqa Mirza ʻAbd al-Vahab Khan, son of Mirza ʻAli Muhammad Khan (Minister of Dar al-Shura and First Exchequer) and Shahrbanu Baygum (Shams al-Muluk), daughter of Haji Mirza ʻAli Akbar Khan. The mahr includes 500 tumans and a Qur’an. The father of groom has also purchased a share of the village of Karkan (from the bride's father) and gifted it to his son for him to include in the mahr.
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Marriage contract of Sakinah Bagum and Sayyid Hasan, 1886
Marriage contract of Sakinah Bagum, daughter of Haj Mirza Habib Allah, and Sayyid Hasan, son of Sayyid ʻAli. The mahr is one hundred tumans, which remains the groom's debt, and one-third of Dizaj Param village, which the groom's father willingly gives as a part of the mahr.
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Marriage contract of Mirza Shafiʻ Khan and Fatimah Khanum
Marriage contract between Mirza Shafiʻ Khan, son of Haji Mirza ʻAli Akbar Khan, and Fatimah Khanum, daughter of Aqa Riza Khan Saraydar Bashi. The mahr includes a share in the village of Karkan Arak, 600 tumans (of which 100 tumans is the purchase price of a female domestic), a Qur’an written in the hand of Mirza Shafiʻ Tabrizi, pearl prayer beads [tasbih], and other gifts given to the bride by the father of the groom. Bride's father also gifted another share of the same village to the groom.
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Sale of Musa's inheritance, 1826
Zulaykha Khanum, Musa’s wife, Maryam Khanum, Musa’s daughter, and Safiyah and Imam‘ali, Musa's underage children, represented by some of the people of the village — whose names appear on the margin -- sell their shares of the inherited houses in ‘Uryandibi [Ayrandibi] to Karbalayi Hasanquli and Karbalayi Bakhsh‘ali, the sons of ‘Abbas, for three tumans and fifteen thousand dinars. Of the three tumans, Maryam gets one tuman and two tumans go to the underage children.
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Marriage contract of Taj al-Muluk and Mirza Ahmad Mani‘ al-Dawlah,1929
Marriage contract of Taj al-Muluk, daughter of Muhammad Husayn Aqa Khan Salar A‘zam (from Azarbayjan), and Mirza Ahmad Khan Mani‘ al-Dawlah, son of Mirza As‘ad Allah (from Zanjan); the mahr includes three-sixths of Amirabad village, two hundred and fifty misqals [unit of weight] of gold, one thousand misqals of silver, and a Qur’an worth fifty tumans