Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran

Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran

Marriage contract of Jan Jan Khanum and ʻAbd al-Karim, 1875

Marriage contract of Jan Jan Khanum and ʻAbd al-Karim, 1875

Marriage contract of Jan Jan Khanum, daughter of Aqa Yahya and ʻAbd al-Karim, son of Muhammad Yusuf in 1875.

Item Details

  • Date 1875 or 1876
  • Notes

    Though the document bears no evidence of the couple’s Jewish heritage, the contract is signed in Judeo-Persian by witnesses in three places along the right margin of the text. Paper, watercolor, pen and ink, colored paper band frame. Item information based on source data from CIJOH.

  • Dimensions 54 x 36 cm
  • Collections Center for Iranian Jewish Oral History
  • Repository Center for Iranian Jewish Oral History (1232-D-2000)
  • Restrictions Use of collection materials for publication purposes must cite the Center for Iranian Jewish Oral History as the current repository.
  • Accessed 14 February 2012
  • Last Edited 12 August 2013
  • Record no. 1025A184
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