Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran

Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran

Marriage contract of  ʻAlam Taj Khanum and Aqa Mirza Mahdi Khan, 1910

Marriage contract of ʻAlam Taj Khanum and Aqa Mirza Mahdi Khan, 1910

The marriage contract of ʻAlam Taj Khanum, daughter of Mirza Musa Khan, the financial administrator, and Aqa Mirza Mahdi Khan, son of Aqa Mirza Khaqan, the financial administrator of Astar Abad. The mahr includes one hundred square meters of the small Biruni building located in the Sangalaj quarter of Tehran, one crimson Kashmiri shawl worth forty tumans, a mirror, a pair of crystal lamps worth fifteen tumans, a Qurʼan and one tuman’s worth of salt.

Item Details

  • Date 12 July 1910
  • Dimensions 25 x 17 cm
  • Collections Karen
  • Repository Karen Collection
  • Restrictions No Restrictions.
  • Accessed 6 August 2012
  • Last Edited 14 September 2012
  • Record no. 1252A9
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