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Settlement between Akhtar Khanum and her father, 1914
Settlement between Akhtar Khanum and her father, Ghulam Husayn Khan the Colonel Navvab Kayvan Mirza, son of Sultan Jalal al-Din Mirza, over her mahr, which includes a volume of the Qurʼan worth two tumans, fifty [illegible] of green silk, and three hundred tumans, in exchange for one man [unit of weight] of wheat and two thousand dinars
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Marriage contract, settlement, and divorce agreement between Saltanat Khanum and Shahzadah ‘Abbas Mirza, 1910 and 1911
Marriage contract of Saltanat Khanum (known as Mukhbar al-Saltanah), daughter of Davud Mirza, and Shahzadah [prince] ‘Abbas Mirza, son of Haj Muhammad Mahdi Mirza, on March 15, 1910; the mahr includes a Qurʼan worth twenty-five tumans, one-twelfth of [illegible] ‘Abbas Abad village, five hundred tumans, a female Abyssinian slave worth one hundred and fifty tumans, and five mans [unit of weight] of silk. On April 1, 1910, Shahzadah ‘Abbas Mirza divorced Saltanat Khanum, and since the marriage was not consummated, her mahr was cut in half. Saltanat Khanum settled half of her original mahr,...