Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran

Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran

Marriage contract between Bibi Layla and Muhammad Husayn, 1927

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 tumans, five mans of cast iron for two tumans, two sets of bedding for four tumans, 15 sheep and goats for nine tumans, seven tumans gold and silver and parts of a land for four tumans.

Item Details

  • Date 24 January 1927
  • Collections Astan-i Quds
  • Repository Astan-i Quds Collection
  • Restrictions No restrictions
  • Accessed 14 January 2016
  • Last Edited 11 March 2016
  • Record no. 14126A37
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