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Marriage agreement of Hishmat and Barat ʻAli, 1883
Marriage agreement of Hishmat, daughter of Mirza son of Sayyid Ibrahim, and Barat ʻAli, son of Mashhadi Sulayman from Khuzan. The mahr includes twenty-six tumans and two thousand five hundred dinars, sixty tumans to buy a house for the bride, eighty tumans to buy land for the bride, and seventeen tumans to buy gold and earrings. Additionally, fifteen tumans will be paid for the bridal gift and to buy rugs and two sets of proper women's clothes.
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Marriage agreement of Sadiqah and Sayyid Mahmud Mirshafiʻi, 1891
Marriage agreement of Sadiqah, daughter of Mirza Aqa Mirshafiʻi from Khuzan, and Sayyid Mahmud Mirshafiʻi, son of Mirza ʻAbd Al-Rahim from Khuzan. The mahr includes twenty-six tumans and two thousand five hundred dinars, one-sixth of a house located in the Shamsabad neighborhood of Khuzan, one half-acre of land in Shamsabad, fifty tumans to buy a property, and thirty tumans to buy gold and earrings. Additionally, twenty tumans will be paid for the wedding expenses, rugs, and clothes. Later, one-twelfth of the house included in the mahr was changed to two-fifteenths of shares in ʻAli...
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Marriage contract of Khadijah Sultan Khanum Saffar Harandi and Ustad ‘Abbas Saffar Harandi, 1891
Marriage contract of Khadijah Sultan Khanum, daughter of Ustad Muhammad Husayn Saffar Harandi, and Ustad ‘Abbas, son of Ustad Isma‘il Saffar Harandi. The mahr includes three tumans and three thousand dinars. The groom settled with the bride, exchanging three thousand dinars of the mahr and one hundred units of the preceding measure of wheat for twenty misqals [unit of weight] of gold, twenty mans [unit of weight] of copperware, two sets of silk women's clothes, one set of qalamkar women's clothes, one set of qalamkar bedding and one set of chintz bedding from Burujird, a rug, leaning...
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Marriage and divorce contracts of Baygum Khanum and Murad ‘Ali, 1891
Marriage and divorce contracts of Baygum Khanum, daughter of the late Aqa Taqi, and Murad ‘Ali, son of the late Kazim. The mahr includes one tuman and five thousand dinars, one-and-a-half misqals of golden jewelery, copperware, European chintz clothes, a set of bedding made in Qumshah, kilim and a felt rug, and one-sixth of the groom's residential building located in the Ustad Qasim the Carpenter neighborhood of Asfarjan village. On April 26, 1894, the wife settled her mahr and alimony with her husband for two tumans, a donkey, two mans [unit of weight] of flour, a pair of shoes, four zar‘...
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Settlement of Baygum Jan Khanum with her sons, 1873
Prior to this, Baygum Jan Khanum had settled with her two sons, Haji Sayyid Muhammad and Haji Sayyid Abu al-Qasim, over her share of inheritance from her late husband, Haji Mir Kazim, and also over her share of inheritance from Haji Mir Hasan. Now, after some disputes, another settlement is made between them and the sons are required to financially support Baygum Jan Khanum as long as she lives, take her on a pilgrimage to Karbala’ and Mashhad, and pay for her funeral and burial costs. Moreover, she can take hold of her household furnishings, including bedding, carpets, kitchenware, and...
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Will of Haj Hamzah, 1891
Will of Haj Hamzah Aqa Tajir (merchant) from Tabriz, resident of Najaf, in which he gives one hundred tumans to his wife (daughter of Haj Shaykh Muhammad) for her mahr, three hundred tumans for purchasing a house for her, and allows her to keeps all her belongings including clothing, carpets, and household furnishings. He also determines one-third of his inheritance and allocates money to be spent for his funeral and religious duties including ablution, the funeral, prayer, fasting, pilgrimage, and charity. Haj Hamzah Aqa has appointed Mirza Aqa Sadiq as the executor of his will in Najaf...
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