Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran

Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran

Marriage contract of Bibi Kuchak and Muhammad Baqir, 1826

Marriage contract of Bibi Kuchak and Muhammad Baqir, 1826

Marriage contract of Bibi Kuchak, the daughter of Ustad Husayn Fakhkhar from Yazd, and Muhammad Baqir, son of Hasan (son of Zu al-Fiqar Naqi) with a mahr of 20 tumans, which includes: 10 shares of the shared ownership of a house (the ownership of which was divided into 80 shares), an outfit worth 10 tumans, two-and-a-half Shah-mans [each is six kilograms] of copper worth five tumans, gold, and a carpet for covering a room, worth five tumans. The groom’s mother contributed the gold and the house, his father contributed the carpet, and the rest remain the groom’s debt.

Item Details

  • Date 23 July 1826
  • Collections Astan-i Quds
  • Repository Astan-i Quds Collection
  • Restrictions No restrictions
  • Accessed 14 January 2016
  • Last Edited 11 March 2016
  • Record no. 14126A60
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