Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran

Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran

Marriage agreement of Khanum Sultan and Aqa ʻAbbas, 1922

Marriage agreement of Khanum Sultan and Aqa ʻAbbas, 1922

Marriage agreement of Khanum Sultan, daughter of Karbalayi ʻAbd al-Samad son of the late Hasan from Khuzan, and Aqa ʻAbbas, son of Karbalayi Taqi son of ʻAbbas from Khuzan. The mahr includes twenty-five tumans, one-fourth of a residential building that belonged to the groom’s father, located in the Shamsabad neighborhood of Khuzan, a property in Shamsabad that belonged to the groom’s mother, a pair of gold earrings worth six tumans, plus six tumans and one-and-a-half mans [unit of weight] of cotton wool to make bedding.

Item Details

  • Date 16 February 1922
  • Dimensions 21 x 16 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. 15161A80
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