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Umm Salmah's endowment, 1794
Endowment for a garden, known as Bagh Zangi, in Abarqu village, near Yazd, and three sixths of a house and its possessions, by Umm Salmah Khanum, the daughter of Haj Muhammad ʻAli Mirza Khan Yazdi. After the property was rented out, the caretaker was to spend three tumans buying bread and raisins for the poor on the Ghadir feast, another three tumans on giving bread, dates, and raisins to the poor during fast-breaking in the month of Ramadan. Five thousand dinars were set aside in case a stranger were to die without anyone to bury them or supply the shroud. The document also dictates that...
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Fatimah Khanum's endowment, 1863
Endowment for parts of two qanats and a farm by Fatimah Khanum, the daughter of Mulla Abu al-Qasim Shahabadi Yazdi. The document calls for the money to be spent on Hazrat ʻAli's mourning ceremony on the three holy nights in Ramadan.
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Marriage contract between Rubabah Khanum and Aqa Ghulam ʻAli, 1914
Marriage contract between Rubabah Khanum, the daughter of Husayn Aqa, and Aqa Ghulam ʻAli, the son of Muhammad Aqa, dated June 14, 1914. The mahr includes parts of some properties and land, some clothing, and some textiles.
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Marriage contract between Sayyidah Khayr al-Nisaʼ and Ustad Asad Allah, 1922
Marriage contract between Sayyidah Khayr al-Nisaʼ, the daughter of Aqa ʻAbd Allah, and Ustad Asad Allah, the son of Ustad Ahmad, dated October 31, 1922.The mahr includes parts of a farm, five tumans, some red gold, and some silver.
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Settlement between Muhammad Riza Tarazjani's wife and her son, 1829
Settlement between Muhammad Riza Tarazjani's wife and her eldest son, Mirza Sayyid Husayn, for one sixth of the water in the Mubarakah farm near Taft, all its gardens, part of Na‘imabad qanat (known as Ab Shahi), and a house in exchange for 3 rials' worth of 100 dirham wheat.
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Marriage contract between Khayr al-Nisaʼ Khanum and Amir Muhammad Hadi, 1859
Marriage contract between Khayr al-Nisaʼ Khanum and Amir Muhammad Hadi dated October 8, 1859. The mahr is 100 ashrafis, a Qurʼan worth 5 tumans, a female servant worth 40 tumans, and parts of some properties.
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Marriage contract of Ruqiyah Sultan Khanum and Aqa Hasan ʻAli, 1870
Marriage contract of Ruqiyah Sultan Khanum, the daughter of Sayyid Hasan ʻAli, and Aqa Hasan ʻAli, the son of Haji ʻAbbas the barber, dated August 13, 1870. The mahr is 24 tumans, 2340 dinars, and a house.
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Marriage contract of Sakinah Sultan and Mirza Mahdi, 1899
Marriage contract of Sakinah Sultan, the daughter of Haji ʻAli Asghar, and Mirza Mahdi, the son of Haji Muhammad Zaman the forage vendor, dated December 22, 1899. The mahr is one hundred tumans, a Qurʼan, and some gold.
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Marriage contract between Bibi Zahra Sultan Khanum and Sayyid Hasan, 1921
Marriage contract between Bibi Zahra Sultan Khanum, the daughter of Haj Mirza Habib, and Sayyid Hasan, the son of Haji Sayyid Husayn, dated November 19, 1921. The mahr includes parts of a property and some land in Ashkazar, a carpet, some clothing, a mirror, copper containers, a chest, a chador, and some red gold. The items listed in the mahr were valued at 100 tumans.
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Marriage contract between Bibi Rukhsarah Baygum and Mirza ʻAli Aqa, 1926
Marriage contract between Bibi Rukhsarah Baygum, the daughter of Sayyid Nasr Allah, and Mirza ʻAli Aqa, the son of Mirza Muhammad Husayn (known as Mirza Aqa), dated February 23, 1926. The mahr is 500 tumans, of which 350 tumans is the price of parts of some properties and land, and the rest of which (150 tumans) was charged to the bridegroom.