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Marriage contract of Gul Chihrah and Muqbil, 1907
Marriage contract of Gul Chihrah, female slave of Aqa Mirza Hasan Khan’s wife, and Muqbil, son of the late ‘Abd Allah (the orderly of Aqa Mirza Hasan Khan) and male slave of Aqa Mirza Hasan Khan’s wife; the mahr is three tumans and one thousand five hundred dinars with the condition that Aqa Mirza Hasan Khan’s wife has the power of attorney to divorce Gul Chihrah
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Marriage contract of Khanum Buzurg and Mirza Masʻud Khan, 1870
Marriage contract of Khanum Buzurg, the daughter of Lutf Allah Mirza, and Mirza Masʻud Khan, the son of Muhammad Husain, with a mahr of 1120 tumans, which includes: four shares of a qanat in Hidayat Aabad village's water, clothing worth 500 tumans, gold [jewelry] worth 200 tumans, a carpet worth 150 tumans, copper dishes made in Yazd worth 50 tumans, silver worth 75 tumans, a Qurʼan worth 25 tumans, and one male slave and one female slave worth 80 tumans.
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Marriage contract of Maryam Jan Baygum known as Afaq Bibi Jahan and Mirza Muhammad Husayn, 1882
Marriage contract of Maryam Jan Baygum known as Afaq Bibi Jahan, the daughter of Mirza Masʻud Khan Mustawfi, and Mirza Muhammad Husayn, the son of Haji Sayyid Qasim. The mahr is 800 tuman and includes: three shares of a garden in Herat worth of 300 tumans, pieces of land worth 100 tumans, a female slave for the wife, worth of 50 tumans, a Qurʼan worth 50 tumans, copper dishes worth 50 tumans, gold [jewelry] worth 20 tumans, and bedding and carpets worth 100 tumans. It was agreed that for 50 years after the marriage, the wife can divorce herself if the husband leaves her for more than a year...
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Marriage contract of Mah Sharaf Baygum and Husayn Quli, 1836
Marriage contract of Mah Sharaf Baygum, daughter of ‘Ata’ Allah Khan, and Husayn Quli Khan, son of Muhammad Quli Khan Khamsah. The mahr is two hundred misqals [unit of weight] of gold, five hundred misqals of silver, two Abyssinian slaves, one male and one female each valued at fifty tumans, and some silk worth twenty tumans.
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Basat-i nishat
A sarcastic and male-centered essay in which noble women are "ugly" or old, and female slaves are pretty, kind and well-behaved.There are parts on men's desire for men and women's desire for women, vows of sisterhood, preparation of the bride and groom for the wedding night, wives and husbands relationships, etc. Parts of the document refer to Kulsum Nanah. At the end, there is a review of different types of pleasure according to their length.
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Mir Sayyed Ali Jenab's interview
Mir Sayyed Ali Jenab's interview conducted by Afsaneh Najmabadi in Isfahan on 24 June, 2015. Mir Sayyed Ali Jenab shares his memories of Saltanat Khanum and Bibi Jan.