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ʻIffat's wedding
Upper row from left: Huma Ittihadiyah Farmanfarmayan, Fakhr Iran Kamrani (Fakhr ʻAlaʼ), Hamdam Nafisi, ʻIffat (the bride), and Quds al-Zaman ʻInayat (the daughter of Aqdas al-Dawlah and wife of Zahir al-Islam); lower level from left: Jabbarah, ʻAli Parkhidah (Jabbarah's son), Fakhr al-Dawlah, a servant's child, unidentified, and Quds al-Zaman's son
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ʻIffat's wedding
Standing from left: Fakhr Iran Kamrani (Fakhr ʻAlaʼ), Huma Ittihadiyah Farmanfarmayan, Fakhr al-Dawlah, unidentified, ʻIffat (the bride), Aqdas al-Dawlah (Fakhr al-Dawlah's sister), and Quds al-Zaman ʻInayat (daughter of Aqdas al-Dawlah and wife of Zahir al-Islam); sitting from left: Hamdam Nafisi, ‘Izzat al- Muluk Farmanfarmayan Pirniya, and Jabbarah
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First and last pages of a Qur’an with the stamp of Ziya’ al-Saltanah [II]
First and last pages of a Qur’an with the stamp of Ziya’ al-Saltanah [II], the daughter of Nasir al-Din Shah and wife of Sayyid Zayn al-ʻAbidin Imam Jumʻah. The Qur’an was gift-endowed in the female line in the family, provided that the person would accept reading it every day for the spiritual benefit of Ziya’ al-Saltanah's mother, Nadim al-Saltanah. The date of the endowment is June 1, 1885. Her seal's date is 1857 (perhaps her birth year). After Ziya’ al-Saltanah's death, the Qur‘an was in the possession of her daughter-in-law, Aqdas al-Dawlah (a daughter of Muzaffar al-Din Shah) and...