Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran

Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran

Marriage contract of Mah Sharaf Baygum and Husayn Quli, 1836

Marriage contract of Mah Sharaf Baygum and Husayn Quli, 1836

Marriage contract of Mah Sharaf Baygum, daughter of ‘Ata’ Allah Khan, and Husayn Quli Khan, son of Muhammad Quli Khan Khamsah. The mahr is two hundred misqals [unit of weight] of gold, five hundred misqals of silver, two Abyssinian slaves, one male and one female each valued at fifty tumans, and some silk worth twenty tumans.

Item Details

  • Date 17 February 1836
  • Dimensions 37.5 x 22.5 cm
  • Collections Sima Amir Ebrahimi-Zolfaqari
  • Repository Sima Amir Ebrahimi-Zolfaqari Collection
  • Restrictions No restrictions
  • Accessed 15 February 2019
  • Last Edited 23 April 2019
  • Record no. 17203A37
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