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Bibi Jenab's passport
Name: Banu Bibi, daughter of ‘Ali; last name: Jenab; born in 1906, Isfahan; resident of Isfahan; occupation: housewife; destination: England. Bibi Khanum (Tan Jan) was the daughter of Saltanat Khanum (Shahzadah Jan) and Mir Sayyid ‘Ali Jinab.
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Saltanat Khanum Jinab's birth record, 1926
Saltanat Khanum Jinab, daughter of Jayran Khanum and Muhammad Husayn Mirza; born in 1880 or 1881 in Isfahan.
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Saltanat Khanum Jinab's birth certificate, 1956
Saltanat Jinab, daughter of Jayran and Muhammad Husayn; born in 1880 or 1881; issued in Isfahan; a note on the last page reads: "according to the regulations, the word Khanum has been omitted from the names of Saltanat and her mother, and the word Mirza from that of her father."
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Marriage contract of Sharaf Aqa and Mulla Lutf Allah, 1928
Marriage contract of Sharaf Aqa, the daughter of Aqa Sayyid Mahdi, and Mulla Lutf Allah, the son of Mulla Aqa Mirza. The mahr is twenty six tumans, a Qur’an (valued at one tuman), two-sixths of their house of residence, a portion of land, a set of bedding from Isfahan, some copperware from Isfahan, a rug, and a piece of clothing for a wedding. The above items, except the Qur’an and the money, amount to a total of forty five tumans, which remains the groom's debt. The note on the margin says: the house, the land, the copperware, and the rug were settled for thirty five tumans and the rest...
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Marriage contract of Sughra Khanum and Aqa Muhammad Rahim, 1886
Marriage contract of Sughra Khanum, the daughter of Ustad Muhammad Rahim Allah Abadi, and Aqa Muhammad Rahim, the son of Aqa Mirza Kazim from Isfahan. The mahr includes: twelve tumans and shares of land, twenty-five tumans for building a house, seventeen tumans to buy women's outfits, twelve tumans for buying and selling, five tumans for bedding, one pair of earrings worth five tumans, and six tumans to buy copperware.
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Marriage contract of Khavar Sultan Khanum and Barat‘ali, 1909
Marriage contract of Khavar Sultan Khanum, the daughter of Aqa ‘Ali, and Barat‘ali, the son of Aqa Karbalayi Qasim‘ali. The mahr is sixty tumans. The groom settled the following, which his father had settled to him earlier, to the bride: part of the house of residence, parts of agricultural land and their share of water, a set of bedding made in Isfahan (seven tumans), rugs (three tumans), some copperware (one tuman), fabrics and clothing for the wedding (twelve tumans). The mentioned items equal forty eight tumans from the mahr and the remaining twelve tumans remains the groom's debt.
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Settlement between Aqa Baygum and her children, 1904
Settlement between Aqa Baygum, daughter of Haj Muhammad Javad from Isfahan and wife of Haj Muhammad Sadiq from Dastjird, and her two sons, Muhammad Hadi Arbab and Muhammad Shafi‘, exchanging four-and-one-half acres of a property in Dastjird, which she inherited from her son, Hasan ‘Ali, for one hundred dinars. Aqa Baygum also settles her mahr with the mentioned sons for ten misqals [unit of weight] of crystal candy. They agree that if Aqa Baygum passes away, the mahr should be spent on: the Fatihah, ten years of fasting and prayer, the Imam's share being given to Shaykh Ahmad, tithing to...
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Marriage contract of Fatimah and Ghulamriza, 1902
Marriage contract of Fatimah, known as Khanum Jan, the daughter of Husayn ‘Ali Akbar Paykani, and Ghulamriza, the son of ‘Ali ‘Abdul; the mahr includes: twelve tumans, three mans of copperware, two mans of Arabian kilim, a set of Isfahani chintz bedding, two sets of women's outfits, one made of silk and the other of Isfahani chintz, and the price of a building originally valued at two tumans, and the price of a building originally valued at two tumans, but which both parties agreed was worth three tumans of the original mahr and twenty-five Tasujs [unit of weight] of wheat.
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Marriage agreement of Rubabah Aqayi and Fath Allah Jamshidi, 1935
Marriage agreement of Rubabah Aqayi, daughter of Haydar ʻAli from Khuzan, and Fath Allah Jamshidi, son of Ramazan ʻAli from Khuzan. The mahr includes twenty-six tumans and two thousand five hundred dinars, one-twelfth of a residential building located in the Shamsabad neighborhood of Khuzan, some properties in the Andan village known as Jaʻfarabad, and one pair of gold earrings worth ten tumans. Additionally, ten tumans will be paid as the bridal gift to buy women's clothes.
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Marriage agreement of Nawbar Agha and Sayyid Fath Allah, 1931
Marriage agreement of Nawbar Agha, daughter of Muhammad Husayn from Furushan, and Sayyid Fath Allah, son of Mirza ʻAbd Allah from Khuzan. The mahr is one hundred and twenty-five tumans, twenty-five tumans of which is cash, fifty tumans is to buy a house for the bride, and fifty tumans is to buy clothes, rugs, and other necessities.