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Marriage contract of Marziyah Baygum and Mir Nasr Abu Talib, 1911
Marriage contract of Marziyah Baygum, daughter of ‘Abd al-Javad the preacher from ّUpper Banuyah, and Mir Nasr Abu Talib, son of Mirza Muhammad ‘Ali. The mahr is ten tumans in cash, ten tumans to buy rose gold, ten tumans to buy clothes, some properties in Banuyah, and five tumans for acquiring a Qurʼan.
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Three settlements of Haj Habib Allah, 1882, 1883, and 1884
The first document, dated 1882, is a copy of the settlement between Haj Habib Allah, son of the late Haj Mirza ʻAbd Allah, and his sister, Mahi Khanum, transferring the ownership of Mahi Khanum's belongings, including silverware, furniture and goods, land and housing, clothes and fabric, etc. in exchange for a pair of gold bracelets, a knife, and fourteen shahis. The second settlement, dated 1883, is between Haj Habib Allah and his two underaged sons, Muhammad Husayn and Murtaza Quli, transferring the ownership of what he inherited from his sister, Mahi Khanum, in exchange for a knife and...
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Settlement between Khanum Sultan and Aqa Baygum, 1911
After Nayib Ibrahim, son of Haji Muhammad Baqir from Khuzan, died without leaving a will, there was a dispute between Nayib Ibrahim's wife Khanum Sultan, daughter of Mirza Muhammad Hasan from Andan, and Nayib Ibrahim's daughter Aqa Baygum, wife of ‘Abd al-Rahman. Khanum Sultan demanded her share of the inheritance and what was hers according to her marriage contract. This settlement is between Mirza Aqa ‘Ali Akbar, on behalf of Khanum Sultan, and Aqa Mirza ‘Ali Muhammad, on behalf of Aqa Baygum, over Khanum Sultan's share of the inheritance, her mahr, and the gold mentioned in her marriage...
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Claim to collect money and dowry, 1922
A claim from Shaykh ‘Ayn Allah with power of attorney from Bibi ‘Adilah Khanum (daughter of the late Murtaza Khan and wife of the late Mirza Abu al-Qasim Qavvam al-Hukama’), made against Haji Shaykh ‘Abd al-Husayn Hisam al-‘Ulama’, who has the power of attorney from Mirza Yusuf Khan Mustawfi (son of the late Mirza Mustafa), in order to collect Bibi ‘Adilah Khanum’s dowry, paternal inheritance, property transferred to her by her late husband, as well as two hundred tumans for her mahr from Mirza Yusuf Khan; along with the lawyer’s response to the claim