Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran

Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran

Marriage contract of Zulaykha Khanum and Muhammad Sadiq, 1923

Marriage contract of Zulaykha Khanum and Muhammad Sadiq, 1923

Marriage contract of Zulaykha Khanum, daughter of Haj Muhammad Ibrahim son of Muhsin, and Muhammad Sadiq, son of Ustad Rajab ‘Ali [illegible]. The mahr includes: seventy-six tumans and two thousand five hundred dinars, of which the bride and the groom have agreed fifty tumans will be given to the bride to buy women’s clothes, copperware, [illegible], rug, gold earrings, and cloth. The rest remains the groom’s debt. The mahr also includes one-and-a-half misqals [unit of weight] of gold and one-sixth of a house that the groom’s brothers transferred to him.

Item Details

  • Date 22 February 1923
  • Dimensions 64 x 37 cm
  • Collections Meisam Ahmadi Kafshani
  • Repository Meisam Ahmadi Kafshani Collection
  • Restrictions Any non-academic and commercial use needs the permission from the owner of the collection.
  • Accessed 30 August 2017
  • Last Edited 21 September 2017
  • Record no. 15161A4
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