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Embroidered silk jacket
Part of wedding dress of Nimtaj (Taj al-Sadat) Shaykh al-Islami, daughter of Navvab al-Hajiyah and Mirza Masʻud Shaykh al-Islam and wife of Mirza Mufid Shaykh al-Islam (Dibaj).
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Tirmah jacket
From Muhammad Shah era; belonged to Nimtaj Shaykh al-Islami and was passed on to her granddaughter Shahla Shaykh al-Islami
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Groom’s wedding outfit
Belonged to Mirza Mufid Shaykh al-Islam Dibaj (Bahram Sheikholeslami’s grandfather); Haj Mir Hasan Shayk al-Islam, his great grandfather (who was also the great grandfather of the bride, Nimtaj Khanum) had the fabric (tirmah) made during the first years of Muhammad Shah's reign.
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Shaykh al-Islami Family Album
Created by Afsar al-Muluk Shaykh al-Islami, daughter of Nimtaj (Taj al-Sadat) Shaykh al-Islami and Mirza Mufid Shaykh al-Islam (Dibaj), and wife of Sayyid ʻAli Shaykh al-Islami. According to Bahram Sheikholeslami, the images can be identified as follows (from left to right in each photograph): sequences 1 and 2 are the cover and the inside of the cover; seq. 3: Amjad al-Vizarah [Sayyid ʻAbd Allah Shaykh al-Islami]; seq. 4: Amjad al-Vizarah and his new born son, Sayyid ‘Ali Khan, Mashhad, 1290 SH (1911); seq. 5: top left: Afsar al-Muluk in wedding dress; top right: Sayyid ‘Ali Khan in...