Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran

Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran

Marriage contract of Zarrin Taj and Aqa Khan, 1898

Marriage contract of Zarrin Taj and Aqa Khan, 1898

Marriage contract of Zarrin Taj, daughter of Hasan Aqa Sultan, resident of Ziyabad village, and Aqa Khan, son of Baba Khan, resident of the same village. The mahr includes three tumans and two thousand five hundred dinars, five thousand dinars for a Qur’an, twenty-five misqals [unit of weight] of gold, one hundred misqals of silver, ten tumans to buy a set of bedding, forty tumans to buy a set of rugs, an oil lamp, a bathing bowl, a tray, a ewer and basin set, and ten mans [unit of weight] of copperware worth ten tumans. Additionally, the groom’s father transferred the ownership of some property to the groom, and he included that property as a part of the bride’s mahr.

Item Details

  • Date 1 November 1898
  • Dimensions 42 x 21.5 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 28 September 2017
  • Record no. 15161A57
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