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Correspondence regarding Ruqiyah's disobedience, 1915-1916
In one document Ruqiyah, the wife is banned from leaving the house without her husband's permission. In the other, Mahdi Khan, the husband, complains about her disobedience to Muhammad al-Husayni.
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Letter of attorney about alimony for Haji Ghulam Husayn's daughter, 1916
Letter written by the attorney of Haji Ghulam Husayn Zari‘ [the farmer] to Hujjat al-Islam Ra’is al-‘Ulama’ regarding the amount of money that Mirza Lutf Allah paid to Haji Ghulam Husayn as alimony for Haji Ghulam Husayn's daughter (which had to be paid by Mirza ‘Abbas Khan, son of Mirza Lutf Allah Naqqash [the painter]), but Haji Ghulam Husayn refused to accept. The receiver responds that the amount not accepted by Haji Ghulam Husayn was one hundred and forty tumans, but the alimony was more than that.
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About paying alimony, 1914
Aqa Buzurg Khan, son of the late Mirza Muhammad Khan, on behalf of Mirza ‘Abd al-Karim Khan Murshid, is responsible for paying the daily alimony of Khanum ‘Ata’ (daughter of Muhammad Husayn Khan Muntazam and permanent wife of Mirza ‘Abd al-Karim Khan Murshid) and to treat her well
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Haj Sayyid Hadi to ʻAbd al-Husayn Mirza Farmanfarma, 1917 or 1918
Telegraph about Nur al-Din abandoning his wife with debt, requesting payment of the debt and her alimony, or divorcing her
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Petitions and requests submitted to Mirza Hasan Shaykh al-Islam and Munshi Bashi
Petitions and requests, including the following: one to Mirza Hasan Shaykh al-Islam petitioning for assistance in recovering Fatimah Sultan Khanum's share of her father's inheritance. Fatimah Sultan Khanum was the daughter of Haj Muhammad Baqir, the sister of Yumn al-Saltanah, and the wife of Asad Allah Sarhang. Another is a petition to Mirza Hasan Shaykh al-Islami about the division of inheritance and the reply; another is a petition to Mirza Hasan Shaykh al-Islam from the mother of a murdered man; in another, an unidentified woman asks Mirza Hasan Shaykh al-Islam to intervene in an...
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Letter from Shams Kasma’i to Iran-i naw, 1909
From Ashgabat, Russia; about women's education and employment