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Marriage contract of Umm Kulsum Khanum and Ahmad Aqa, 1883
Marriage contract of Ummah [Umm] Kulsum Khanum, the daughter of Haji Muhammad Isma‘il Arbab, and Haji Ahmad Aqa, the son of Muhammad Husayn Arbab. The mahr is five hundred tumans and a copy of the Qur’an, which remains the groom's debt. According to a note on the first page, dated 1902, Umm Kulsum Khanum settled her mahr and all her rights with Haji Ahmad Aqa in exchange for three hundred tumans.
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Settlement between Mansurah Buluri and Habib Allah Vaziri, 1947
Settlement between Mansurah Buluri Tafrishi, the daughter of Mahdi, and her husband, Habib Allah Vaziri, the son of Muhammad, regarding Mansurah's mahr. In their marriage contract, Mansurah's mahr was eight thousand rials and a later contract added fifty two thousand to the mahr, yielding a total of sixty thousand rials. Based on this settlement, Habib Allah transfers his share of the inheritance from his father, worth fifty nine thousand, four hundred and eighteen rials, to Mansurah Khanum for her mahr. Habib Allah's share includes the following: part of a house in Tehran, part of an...