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Marriage contract of Mihr Mah Khanum and Qahriman Mirza ʻAyn al-Saltanah, 1909
Marriage contract of Mihr Mah Khanum, daughter of Rahim Khan Muguyi, and Qahriman Mirza ʻAyn al-Saltanah, son of ʻIzz al-Dawlah. The Mahr includes 400 tumans and a Qurʼan. The last page of this document certifies the divorce of Mihr Mah Khanum and Qahriman Mirza ʻAyn al-Saltanah, and the payment of Mahr by Rafʻat al-Sultan on behalf of ʻAyn al-Saltanah in 4 September of 1912.
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Marriage contract of Qamar Sultan Khanum and Mirza Hasan Khan Mukarram al-Sultan, 1925
Marriage contract of Qamar Sultan Khanum, the daughter of Mirza Muhammad Khan Munshi Bashi, and Mirza Hasan Khan Mukarram al-Sultan, the son of Aqa Muhammad Sadiq Aqa the merchant from Kashan. The mahr is a Qurʼan, a Kashmir shawl, a diamond ring, and eight hundred tumans. Part of the mahr has been paid and the rest remains the groom's debt. The conditions of the marriage contract are the following: for five years, Qamar Sultan Khanum has the right to divorce if her husband is absent for more than a year, or does not pay living expenses. The groom also promises that for fifty years he will...
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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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Questions and answers
Questions for Sayyid Abu al-Hasan Mujtahid Isfahani, including about the sale of gold and silverwares and turning them into women's jewelry, the power of attorney to perform divorce, and conditions for performing marriage and other legal contracts
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Tayirah's essays in Iran-i naw, 1909
Tayirah's writings on the education of women published in issues no. 65, 69, 78, 84, and 92 of Iran-i naw
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