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Marriage contract of Maʻsumah Khanum and Abu Talib, 1849
Marriage contract of Maʻsumah Khanum, daughter of Haj ʻAliyar resident of Tehran [illegible] Isfahan, and Abu Talib, son of ʻAli Riza. The mahr is twenty two tumans and five thousand dinars. Following this contract, the groom's father settled with the groom over one-sixth of a house located at [illegible] for ten [illegible] coins and ten loads of wheat. Then the groom settled with the bride over the mentioned part of property for eight tumans of the mahr. On the back of the document: "On December 23, 1860, the wife settled with Mulla Faridun, son of Aqa Vafadar, over the same one-sixth of...
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Settlement between Haydar and seveal persons, 1810
Settlement between Haydar, son of Qadir Runani Marbini from Isfahan, and the people listed below, exchanging all of his property for one hundred dinars and one charik [unit of weight] of wheat grains: A) Settlement with his son, Hasan, over half of a garden located at Faridan known as Bagh Qal‘ah, and some land and property. B) Settlement with his lawyers, Ghulam ‘Ali and Muhammad ‘Ali, over half of a property, a garden known as Bagh Bakhajah, and some land. C) Settlement with his daughters, Fatimah Nisa’ and Zaynab, over some properties. D) Settlement with Aqa Hasan over some properties...
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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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Booklet of documents
Documents related to women are the following: seq. 23: "I, Haj ʻAli Asghar Bayg, officer at the royal post service, have received all the jewelry of my deceased wife, Nabat Khanum, which was left with the wife of Haji Vakil al-Dawlah for safekeeping, plus three documents that were not listed. December 29, 1886"; seq. 27: a few years ago, the deceased Nabat Khanum from Tehran, the wife of the deceased ʻAli Asghar Bayg, officer at the royal post service, had left 1000 tumans with Haji Aqa Muhammad Hasan Vakil al-Dawlah, representative of the government of the United Kingdom, who claims on the...
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Marriage contract of Sughra and Haj ‘Ali, 1879
Marriage contract of Sughra, daughter of Haj Ghulam Riza Runani, and Haj ‘Ali, son of ‘Ali ‘Askar from Runan. The mahr includes eighteen tumans, one-twelfth of a residential building in the Tahunah region of Runan village, and some land. The mahr remains groom's debt. On the margin: "On February 3, 1898, Sughra Khanum settled some of the land with Haj ‘Ali in exchange for ten loads of wheat and some other land."
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Settlement of Khadijah and her husband with Mulla Muhsin, 1817
Settlement of Khadijah, known as Khanum Bibi, and her husband, Muhammad ‘Ali, son of Aqa Taqi Kuchakah, with Mulla Muhsin, known as Mulla Aqa Kuchak, son of Mulla Zayn al-‘Abidin, over an orchard for five tumans, and in addition, six thousand five hundred dinars and some wheat for the cost of detriments. On the margin: "because of what Aqa Muhammad ‘Ali owed to his wife according to their marriage contract and the above settlement, he settled half of the land located at Ab Payin Marbanan, known as Shah Safi Allah Garden, to Khanum Bibi for twenty two tumans and ten loads of wheat."
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Mahyar Khalili's interview
Mahyar Khalili's interview conducted by Afsaneh Najmabadi, Farshideh Mirbaghdadabadi and Mihrdad Ghaffari on 6 June 2013. Mahyar Khalili shares his memory of old time weddings, and also other memories related to family members.
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