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ʻAliyah Khanum's divorce case
ʻAliyah Khanum claimed that Haji Musaddiq al-Mamalik, her husband, refused to pay her for her rights and asked that he appear in front of the court and either give her her rights or divorce her.
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Murder of three-year-old daughter, 1911
A man, who has two wives, kills his own daughter from his first wife, so that he could divorce her mother.
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Woman's murder, 1911
The body of the daughter of Haji Mulla Bashi from Taliqan was found by police. Her husband, Aqa Mirza Ibrahim from Taliqan, is arrested for her murder. He had been suspicious of his wife's relationship with his nephew, Hamid Allah, and asked her father to settle the mahr and agree to divorce. The second piece of news from a few days later is about Hamid Allah's arrest.
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Khvurshid Khanum's petitions, 1908
Petitions by Khvurshid Khanum, daughter of Aqa Riza, from Barfurush, to Mukhbir al-Saltanah, Minister of Justice, explaining how following her parents death, when she was three years old, her uncle, ‘Abbasquli Khan, seeking her inheritance of more than fifty thousand tumans worth of property, took her in. After ten years, he married her off to his grandson, son of I‘timad Divan, despite her discontent. I‘timad Divan never paid her her share of inheritance with the excuse that she was his son's wife. Khvurshid Khanum wants a divorce and is willing to waive her mahr, which is more than ten...