Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran

Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran

Marriage contract of Shahrbanu and Haj Muhammad, 1883

Marriage contract of Shahrbanu and Haj Muhammad, 1883

Marriage contract of Shahrbanu, the daughter of Karbalayi Husayn Ustad ʻAli Asghar, and Haj Muhammad, the son of Karbalayi ʻAli Akbar (son of ʻAli Karbalayi Qasim). The mahr includes: pieces of land, water use, two sixths of the house of the groom’s mother, clothes to be bought for three tumans, five mans of copper worth three and half tumans, carpets, kilims, and felt worth two-and-a-half tumans, a set of bedding worth two tumans, gold worth one tuman and 5000 [dinars], silver worth three tumans, and ten tumans cash. Asides from the ten tumans cash, the rest remain the groom’s parents’ debt.

Item Details

  • Date 7 July 1883
  • Collections Astan-i Quds
  • Repository Astan-i Quds Collection
  • Restrictions No restrictions
  • Accessed 15 January 2016
  • Last Edited 31 March 2016
  • Record no. 14126A71
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