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Documents related to Nizam al-Mulk's complaint against Nim Taj Khanum, 1921
Testimony by a number of people, including Mu’ayyad al-Mamalik, regarding Nimtaj Khanum's trespassing on Kulah Farangi property in Nizamiyah Garden, which belongs to the underage children of Nizam al-Mulk. She cut some trees and sold them, claiming it as her own children's property. Shaykh ‘Isa, with the power of attorney from Nizam al-Mulk, complained to the Court of Justice, and the Court's investigation into the matter confirmed his claim.
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Khvurshid Khanum's petitions, 1908
Petitions by Khvurshid Khanum, daughter of Aqa Riza, from Barfurush, to Mukhbir al-Saltanah, Minister of Justice, explaining how following her parents death, when she was three years old, her uncle, ‘Abbasquli Khan, seeking her inheritance of more than fifty thousand tumans worth of property, took her in. After ten years, he married her off to his grandson, son of I‘timad Divan, despite her discontent. I‘timad Divan never paid her her share of inheritance with the excuse that she was his son's wife. Khvurshid Khanum wants a divorce and is willing to waive her mahr, which is more than ten...
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Abduction of Christian girls by Kurds, 1910
Includes correspondence among the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its office in Urumiyah, the Ministry of Interior, the Iranian Embassy, and the Ottoman Embassy, regarding the abduction of three Christian girls by Kurds in the villages in the vicinity of Urumiyah. First, regarding Katrin, who was abducted by Qasim and his group, and was taken to Haydarlu village, includes the account of freeing the girl and her testimony on being taken by force; and the consequent revenge of the Kurds against the people of Haydarlu who helped in the girl's rescue and injuring Khalil Bayg and killing his...