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Marriage contract of Bibi Murvarid Baygum and Mirza Muhammad Hashim, 1901
Marriage contract of Bibi Murvarid Baygum, daughter of the deceased Sayyid Husayn (son of the deceased Aqa Sayyid ʻAli Akbar), and Mirza Muhammad Hashim, son of Haji Mirza Muhammad Husayn (from Mahmudabad). The groom's father has guaranteed the mahr on behalf of his son.
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Marriage contract of Bibi Zahra Khanum and Mashhadi Mahdi, 1898
Marriage contract of Bibi Zahra Khanum, daughter of Mulla Salih (from Astanah and the resident of Rasht), and Mashhadi Mahdi Qadir, son of Mashhadi Hasan Qadir (the resident of Rasht). The mahr is fifty-one tumans.
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Marriage contract of Rubabah Khanum and Aqa ‘Abbas, 1926
Marriage contract of Rubabah Khanum, daughter of Karbalayi Ja‘far, and Aqa ‘Abbas Qassab [the butcher] (son of Ustad ‘Ali Khayyat [the tailor] from Tehran). The mahr is eighty tumans, of which thirty tumans has been paid and the rest remains the groom’s debt.
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Settlement between Khanum Bashi and children of Haj Riza, 1940
Settlement between Khanum Bashi and the children of the late Haj Riza, Husayn (husband of Khanum Bashi) and Isma‘il, over land and its water rights, which were part of her mahr, and a garden and its water rights, also part of her mahr.
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Instruction for seventeen talisman
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Divorce settlement, 1924
Ustad Dash Khayyat [the tailor], son of deceased Haj ʻAbbas Quli, claims that Taj Mah, daughter of Karbalayi Habib Allah, is his permanent wife but she denies it. Eventually, with some people’s mediation, he agrees to divorce her. Haj Shaykh ʻAbd al-Samad, the lawyer of Ustad Dash Khayyat, and Haj Sayyid ʻAli, the lawyer of Taj Mah, on behalf of their clients have settled the divorce agreement and half of Taj Mah’s mahr has been paid.
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Settlement between Bibi Baygum and Sayyidah Sultan Baygum, 1924
Settlement between Bibi Baygum, daughter of Mulla Karbalayi Mirza ‘Ali and the second wife of Aqa Sayyid Muhammad, and Sayyidah Sultan Baygum, daughter of Aqa Sayyid Muhammad, over her entitlements, including her mahr, from Aqa Sayyid Muhammad’s inheritance. Her share includes one-fourth of the mahr belonging to the deceased wife of Aqa Sayyid Muhammad, who was the daughter of Mir Salih, and one-seventh of a house Aqa Sayyid Muhammad had inherited from his late mother. In exchange, she received one-seventh of a house, all the furniture of Aqa Sayyid Muhammad's inherited house, a piece of...
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Letter and marriage contract, 1898
The author talks about Muhammad Hasan’s insistence on getting married and having no other option, he had suggest to Muhammad Hasan to marry Sultan Khanum, daughter of the late Husayn ‘Ali, who was ten years old. On the back, there is a temporary marriage contract for ten years between Sultan Khanum, daughter of the late Husayn ‘Ali, and Mulla Muhammad Hasan, son of Mulla Asad Allah. The mahr is two tumans.
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Settlement between Gulrukh Khanum and Aqa Ghulamriza, 1907
Settlement between Gulrukh Khanum, daughter of the late ‘Abd al-Vahhab (from Ishaqabad), and Aqa Ghulamriza, son of the late Haji Mirza Husayn (from Ishaqabad), over Gulrukh Khanum’s rights to her mahr, alimony, and share of inheritance (one-eight), in exchange for sixteen tumans.
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Power of attorney from ‘Ismat Khanum to Aqa Husayn Khan, 1930
‘Ismat Khanum, daughter of Aqa Sayyid ‘Ali from Vidja, gives power of attorney to Aqa Husayn Khan, to claim her mahr and alimony from her husband, ‘Abbas‘ali from Vidja, within three months.