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Marriage contract of Khadijah Khanum and Jaʻfar Quli Khan, 1926
Marriage contract of Khadijah Khanum, daughter of Mirza ‘Alinaqi Khan, and Ja‘far Quli Khan, son of Haji ‘Ali Aqa Jan; mahr includes some pieces of land with water rights, as well as half of a house
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Marriage contract of Sadiqah Khanum and Mirza Mahdi Quli, 1927
Marriage contract of Sadiqah Khanum, daughter of Mirza Sayyid Muhammad Husayn, and Mirza Mahdi Quli, son of Mirza Sayyid Asad Allah. The mahr is one hundred tumans, which includes a Qurʼan worth twenty-five tumans, white gold worth twenty-five tumans, women's clothing worth twenty-five tumans, and twenty-five tumans in cash. The groom and his father settled some properties and some water channels for fourteen riyals of the mahr with the bride.
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Marriage contract of Rubabah and Mashhadi ‘Abbas, 1929
Marriage contract of Rubabah, daughter of Haj Haydar ‘Ali Naddaf [cotton maker], and Mashhadi ‘Abbas Pizurbaf known as ‘Abbas ‘Ali Pizurbaf, son of the late Muhammad Ja‘far Pizurbaf. The mahr includes a Qurʼan worth five tumans, twenty-six tumans and two thousand ten shahis cash, fifteen misqals [unit of weight] of gold, one-twelfth of the groom's house, and some shares of water.
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Marriage contract between Bibi Layla and Muhammad Husayn, 1927
Marriage contract between Bibi Layla, the daughter of Karbalayi Sayyid ʻAbbas (son of Karbalayi Sayyid Maʻsum from Birjand), and Muhammad Husayn, son of Mulla Zayn al-ʻAbidin, on January 24, 1927. The mahr, which is 84 tumans and will remain the bridegroom's debt, includes: two shares of half of a day's use of the water from the qanat of Hasanabad farm for 32 tumans, half of a house in Arviz village for 6 tumans, kilims and felt for carpeting one room for four tumans, four women's dresses to buy and to make for five tumans, ten mans [each man equals three kilograms] of copper for six...