Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran

Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran

Marriage contract of Khanum Hajiyah and Mashhadi Husayn Misgar, 1928

Marriage contract of Khanum Hajiyah and Mashhadi Husayn Misgar, 1928

Marriage contract of Khanum Hajiyah, daughter of Mashhadi Karim Qassab [the butcher] from Shiraz, and Mashhadi Husayn Misgar [the coppersmith], son of Karbalayi Aqa Buzurg from Shiraz; the mahr includes sixty tumans, a Qur‘an worth one tuman, one misqal [unit of weight] of gold, ten misqals of green silk, one charik [unit of weight] of palm starch, and five mans [unit of weight] of salt. The mahr remains the groom’s debt.

Item Details

  • Date 31 December 1928
  • Collections Jamal Radfar
  • Repository Jamal Radfar Collection
  • Restrictions No restrictions
  • Accessed 25 June 2018
  • Last Edited 27 December 2018
  • Record no. 16179A121
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