Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran

Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran

Marriage contract of Rubabah and ‘Ali Asghar, 1906

Marriage contract of Rubabah and ‘Ali Asghar, 1906

Marriage contract of Rubabah, the daughter of Ustad Ghaffar, and ‘Ali Asghar the cook, the son of Karbalayi Rahim; the mahr is twenty seven tumans and a gold ring worth two tumans and five thousand dinars.

Item Details

  • Date 22 August 1906
  • Notes

    This item and the related item (14150A31), marriage contract of Khanum Khanum and Karbalayi Ghaffar, were in one frame. They were gifted to the Qajar Museum by Saeed Nasouhipur, Rubabah Khanum’s grandson. According to Mr. Nasouhipur, Khanum Khanum, Rubabah’s mother, was related to Parvin I‘tisami’s mother, Akhtar Futuhi Tabrizi, and was the I‘tisam al-Mulk family’s tailor. She died in 1925 or 1926.

  • Dimensions 35 x 22 cm
  • Collections The Qajar Museum of Tabriz
  • Repository The Qajar Museum of Tabriz
  • Restrictions No restrictions
  • Accessed 26 January 2016
  • Last Edited 30 August 2016
  • Record no. 14150A32
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