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Collection of tales
This collection consists of different pieces with different styles. Parts of it are written in a history book style. There might be parts of ʻAzudi History or older histories going back to Safavid and Zand eras. There are some tales and proverbs. Another piece is about military education. There is a record of a meeting about Shahi Bank in which Nasir al-Din Shah has been present and then a complimentary explanation about banks in general and how they work. The last part, Latayif and Zarayif, consists of jokes and tales and seems to be from Nasiri era.
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Taj al-Saltanah
Taj al-Saltanah was the daughter of Turan al-Saltanah and Nasir al-Din Shah
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Turan al-Dawlah
Qamar Taj Turan al-Dawlah was the daughter of Taj al-Saltanah and Hasan Khan Shuja' al-Saltanah
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Letter from Mirza Lutf Allah from Asadabad to ‘Abd al-Husayn Mirza Farmanfarma, 1903
The writer, after sending his gratitude and expressing his service and devotion to the addressee, writes about his work for Muhammad Husayn Khan, grandchild of Sahib Ikhtiyar, per Sahib Ikhtiyar's request. He notes the difficulties of working for Muhammad Husayn Khan and his delay and incompetence in paying workers' wages; despite promising the author to pay his salary, Taji Khanum is reluctant to do so. At the end, he asks the addressee to order that his salary be paid.
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ʻAziz al-Saltanah's petition to Nayib al-Saltanah
Petition from ʻAziz al-Saltanah, Nasir al-Din Shah's daughter, to Nayib al-Saltanah in which she mentions her having been born shortly after her father was killed, how she had lived all her life with her mother [Mahbub al-Saltanah] and that she had not inherited anything from her father. After the Constitutional Revolution, the Majlis had cut her pension to 1000 tumans. However, Mirza Fath Allah Khan, the provincial treasurer of Gilan, returned her payslip claiming that the money has been paid to Sardar Afkham. ʻAziz al-Saltanah writes about the hardship she has gone through and how she has...
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Letter regarding the petition of Nasir al-Din Shah's wives and daughters
The writer is sending an envelope containing the petition of wives and daughters of the late Nasir al-Din Shah and explains the hardships they are going through and that if the current condition continues they will have to take their appeals to one of the foreign embassies. The author asks the king [Muzaffar al-Din Shah?] for immediate action and a response. The second document is a draft of the same letter in which some parts of it has been rewritten several times.
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Kulliyat of Tajmah Khanum
Tajmah Khanum wrote this book, composed of three parts. The first part consists of nearly 120 verses. The first poem is a sonnet written by the poet when she was 16 and the last one was written to praise Riza Shah. The second part is more than 20 letters and notes, which are mostly administrative and legal. Other letters were addressed to women who where contemporaries of Tajmah Khanum. The third part of this book is a selection of poems by Persian poets from Rudaki to the Qajar period.
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List of shops in Bandar Nasiri Bazaar and properties of Akhtar al-Saltanah
List of shops in Bandar Nasiri Bazaar and properties of Akhtar al-Saltanah, wife of Nasir al-Din Shah, and report of their sale and rent.
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Taj al-Saltanah and her children
Taj al-Saltanah, the daughter of Turan al-Dawlah and Nasir al-Din Shah, is pictured here with her four children, from the left, top down: Turan al-Dawlah, Fakhr Iran, Fakhr Zaman, and the boy on the right, Amir 'Abbas.
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Tarikh-i ‘Azudi
Written by Sultan Ahmad Mirza ‘Azud al-Dawlah, the son of Tavus Khanum Taj al-Dawlah and Fath‘ali Shah. ‘Azud al-Dawlah, who was ten years old when his father died, wrote this book in 1886 at the request of his nephew, Nasir al-Din Shah, with Muhammad Hasan Khan I‘timad al-Saltanah as an intermediary. In this book, he recounts the stories of the wives and children of Fath‘ali Shah. The current manuscript was hand-copied by Muhammad Hasan Ibn Husayn‘ali al-Fariqi al-Kamarah-’i, in 1901 or 1902, and includes 251 pages.
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