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Khanum Balqays' petition, 1931
Petition by Khanum Balqays against Mirza Ibrahim, known as Aqa Buzurg Taryaki [opium consumer], who has not paid the rent for a piece of land for four years. The petition asks the court to inform Mirza Ibrahim of the amount of money he owes to the petitioner.
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Copy of Fatimah Baygum's petition to Ayatollah Mirza Muhammad Husayn al-Najafi, 1926
Copy of a complaint petition from Fatimah Baygum to Ayatollah Mirza Muhammad Husayn al-Najafi regarding her brutal treatment at the hands of her husband, Haj Mirza Muhammad Sahib Anjavi. Fatimah Baygum claims that her husband has beaten her and thrown her and their children out of their house. She has sent the children to ask their father for permission to go back, but he refused every time. She next sent some acquaintances to her husband, but he never let her or the children return home. She finally sent this petition to Ayatollah Mirza Muhammad Husayn al-Najafi, requesting that he would...
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Petition to the head of the police station
Complaint against Mahdiyah who has deceived the author's son and cursed him and his wife
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Letter by Khanum Muhtaram's lawyer about the evacuation of a room, 1929
Draft of the letter written by Mirza Zayn al-‘Abidin, the attorney of Khanum Muhtaram, to the Justice Department of Fars about the evacuation of a room in a house located in Bazar-i Murgh neighborhood usurped by Zahra Baygum. She has also occupied some of the other rooms of that house with all the furniture without the owner's permission.
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Petition to summon wife and get back possessions, 1931
Petition written by Biman‘ali Najjar [the carpenter] to Fars Justice Department requesting to summon his wife, Khanum Nubar, to retrieve his possessions from her, which she took forty days ago, and then left the house without her husband's permission and went to ‘Ali Akbar Najjar's house.
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Petition of Mashhadi Nigahdar against his brother, 1931
Petition by Mashhadi Nigahdar, son of the late Khuda Rahim, against his brother, Mashhadi Hasan, regarding the ownership of half of a house located in Darb Shahzadah neighborhood that Mashhadi Hasan has usurped
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Regarding the affair of Khanum Taj and Sayyid Karim, 1925
In a letter to Hujjat al-Islam Mirza Sadiq Aqa, the writer describes how Sayyid Karim has faked the divorce of Khanum Taj, daughter of Riza Khan Shuja‘ Lashkar and wife of Mirza Habib Allah Muntakhib Daftar, and they have fled from Amirabad village to Tabriz. After Mirza Habib Allah's complaint, Sayyid Karim bribed two Mullas and forced Mirza Habib Allah to divorce his wife in exchange for two villages, owned by Khanum Taj. Subsequently, it becomes clear that the two villages had already been sold to someone else and that Khanum Taj was four months pregnant prior to the divorce. Mirza Habib...
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Khanum Masha’ Allah's petition regarding her divorce, 1928
Petition written by Khanum Masha’ Allah, daughter of the late Karbalayi Husayn Baqqal [the grocer], to Sayyid Abu al-Qasim, regarding her divorce from her husband, Sayyid Husayn, son of Sayyid Shukr Allah, and forgoing her mahr.
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‘Azra's letter for confirming her marriage and mahr, 1935
Letter written by ‘Azra, daughter of Haj Mirza Husayn Sharif, to Mirza Sayyid Ahmad Pish-namaz [the prayer leader] requesting him to confirm her marriage to the late Mirza Muhammad Riza with a mahr of three hundred tumans, ten misqals [unit of weight] of gold, a Qurʼan worth five tumans, and ten misqals of silk. He confirms her claims and points out that she had settled one hundred and fifty tumans of her mahr with the late Mirza Muhammad Riza.
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Khanum Muhtaram Mahmud-zadah Sabit's statement about renting her land, 1935
Statement written by Khanum Muhtaram Mahmud-zadah Sabit to the court of Fars requesting an investigation and an order against someone who rented her land for fifty tumans plus payment of the taxes, but has not paid part of the taxes and the rent, and does not cooperate with her.
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