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Marriage contract of Khadijah Sultan and Mulla Muhammad ‘Ali, 1914
Marriage contract of Khadijah Sultan, daughter of Mashhadi ‘Ali, the baker from Isfahan, and Mulla Muhammad ‘Ali, known as Mukarram, from Habib Abad. The mahr is twenty-six tumans and two qirans and ten shahis, and three misqals [unit of weight] of gold. The bride settled two thousand five hundred dinars of her mahr with the groom for a Qurʼan worth one tuman.
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Marriage contract of Fatimah Sultan and Asad Allah, 1909
Marriage contract of Fatimah Sultan, daughter of Mulla Husayn, resident of Runan village, and Asad Allah, son of Ustad ʻAli, resident of the same village. The mahr is twenty-six tumans and two thousand ten shahis, part of a house in the Darb Maydan neighborhood of Runan village, and five misqals [unit of weight] of gold.
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Marriage agreement of Khanum Sultan and Aqa ʻAbbas, 1922
Marriage agreement of Khanum Sultan, daughter of Karbalayi ʻAbd al-Samad son of the late Hasan from Khuzan, and Aqa ʻAbbas, son of Karbalayi Taqi son of ʻAbbas from Khuzan. The mahr includes twenty-five tumans, one-fourth of a residential building that belonged to the groom's father, located in the Shamsabad neighborhood of Khuzan, a property in Shamsabad that belonged to the groom's mother, a pair of gold earrings worth six tumans, plus six tumans and one-and-a-half mans [unit of weight] of cotton wool to make bedding.
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Marriage contract of Sughra and Riza, 1919
Marriage contract of Sughra, the underage daughter of Ghulam ‘Ali son of Haj Isma‘il, and Riza, son of the late ‘Ali son of Rajab from Muhammadabad. The mahr includes ten tumans, one-third of a residential building in Muhammadabad, ten tumans to buy copperware, ten tumans to buy rugs and a chest, three tumans to buy a gold ring, and seven tumans to buy exquisite women's clothes.
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Marriage contract of Sayyidah Baygum and Latif ‘Ali, 1925
Marriage contract of Sayyidah Baygum, the daughter of the late Qadam‘ali Ibn Haj Aqa Hufi, and Latif ‘Ali, the son of the late Muhammad ‘Ali Ibn Haj Muhammad Varnusfadirani. The mahr includes twenty-six tumans and two thousand and five hundred dinars that remain the groom's debt; forty tumans for Sayyidah Baygum to purchase of women's clothing, jewelry, fabric, copperware, and carpets; and thirty tumans to Sayyidah Baygum to purchase a house in the neighborhood of her choice. Dated January 23, 1925; on verso: "In 1927, Latif ‘Ali paid forty tumans and seven thousand dinars to Sayyidah...
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Marriage contract of Banu Khanum and Haj Ghulam Riza, 1921
Marriage contract of Banu Khanum, daughter of the late Haj Javad Darvish, and Haj Ghulam Riza, son of the late Darvish Muhammad Husayn. The mahr includes twenty-one tumans, a Qur'an, parts of a building in the Aqa neighborhood, shares of land in the Ab Bariki Plain, and a share of qanat water in the same plain. On the margin: "On 22 January 1926, Darvish Ghulam Riza sold Banu Khanum's share of the land with her permission, and instead, they included another piece of land as her mahr. On 11 Decemeber 1926, Banu Khanum settled her share of the building with Yad Allah, son of the late Darvish...