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Marriage contract of Baygum Khanum and Karbalayi Sayyid ʻAli, 1856
Marriage contract of Baygum Khanum, the daughter of Haji Zayn al-ʻAbidin, and Karbalayi Sayyid ʻAli, the son of Haji Sayyid Riza. The mahr is eighty tumans and a gold ring worth one tuman.
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Marriage contract of Fatimah Khanum and Aqa Mashhadi ‘Abd al-‘Ali, 1924
Marriage contract of Fatimah Khanum, the daughter of Aqa Muhammad Tabrizi, and Aqa Mashhadi ‘Abd al-‘Ali, the son of Aqa Muhammad Tabrizi. The mahr is fourteen tumans, which remains the groom's debt, and a gold ring worth one tuman.
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Marriage contract of Fatimah Khanum and Aqa Muhammad Riza, 1900
Marriage contract of Fatimah Khanum, the daughter of Sulayman Bayg, and Aqa Muhammad Riza, the son of Karbalayi Hasan. The mahr is twenty-five tumans and a gold ring worth one tuman, which remain the groom's debt.
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Marriage contract of Fatimah Khanum and Sayyid Javad Aqa, 1916
Marriage contract of Fatimah Khanum, the daughter of Akhund Mulla Muhammad ʻAli Aqa Iʻtimad al-Zakirin, and Aqa Sayyid Javad Aqa, the son of Haji Sayyid Hasan from Isfahan. The mahr, which includes forty tumans, a gold ring worth five tumans, and a printed volume of the Qur’an priced at four thousand dinars, remains the groom's debt.
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Marriage contract of Fatimah Sultan Khanum and Aqa Muhammad ‘Ali, 1882
Marriage contract of Fatimah Sultan Khanum, the daughter of Haji Mulla ‘Ali Muhammad the performer of Rawzah, and Aqa Muhammad ‘Ali the confectioner, the son of Haji Husayn. The mahr is one hundred tumans and a gold ring worth five tumans.
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Marriage contract of Haji Maryam Baygum and Haj Sadiq, 1862
Marriage contract of Haji Maryam Baygum, the daughter of Aqa Sayyid Ismaʻil, and Haj Sadiq, the son of Aqa ʻAbd Allah from Kirman. The mahr is twenty two tumans and five thousand dinars. The bride has the following conditions: her husband should take her to Mashhad and pay the costs and it is also his duty to pay for her burial in Mashhad.
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Marriage contract of Khadijah Khanum and Karbalayi Muhsin, 1885
Marriage contract of Khadijah Khanum, the daughter of Mashhadi Ismaʻil, and Karbalayi Muhsin, the son of Karbalayi Faraj Allah. The mahr is forty tumans, a gold ring worth one tuman, and a set of bedding worth three tumans.
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Marriage contract of Khanum Jan and Muhammad Baqir, 1869
Marriage contract of Khanum Jan, daughter of Karbalayi ‘Abd al-Razzaq, and Karbalayi Muhammad Baqir, son of Haji Qurban from Usku; mahr includes a garden and its share of water from a qanat, part of a house, a pair of gold earrings worth five tumans, and a gold ring worth one tuman, which remains the father of the groom's debt, as well as twenty tumans, which remains groom's debt
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Marriage contract of Nazar Khanum and Ni‘mat Allah, 1894
Marriage contract of Nazar [Manzar?] Khanum, the daughter of Qanbar, and Ni‘mat Allah, the son of Fath Allah from the village of Fahuran. The mahr is thirty-one tumans, part of which has been given to the bride in the form of a share of inheritance, jewelry, and clothing. The remaining six tumans remains the groom's debt.
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Marriage contract of Qamar Sultan Khanum and Mirza Hasan Khan Mukarram al-Sultan, 1925
Marriage contract of Qamar Sultan Khanum, the daughter of Mirza Muhammad Khan Munshi Bashi, and Mirza Hasan Khan Mukarram al-Sultan, the son of Aqa Muhammad Sadiq Aqa the merchant from Kashan. The mahr is a Qurʼan, a Kashmir shawl, a diamond ring, and eight hundred tumans. Part of the mahr has been paid and the rest remains the groom's debt. The conditions of the marriage contract are the following: for five years, Qamar Sultan Khanum has the right to divorce if her husband is absent for more than a year, or does not pay living expenses. The groom also promises that for fifty years he will...