Nina and Siyamak Mihrdad

A collection of letters, handwriting, talismans, amulets, gravestones, two manuscripts of One Thousand and One Nights, and legal and financial documents, including a deposition, rental contract, power of attorney, settlement, dowry registry, marriage contract, divorce settlement, list of wedding expenditures, endowments, and inheritance divisions.

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Dates Mid 19th-century to mid 20th-century
Date Acquired November 23, 2015
Last Edited 26 December 2018
Record Number 15173

Genres testimony legal & financial leases powers of attorney writings prayers & devotions sales & settlements dowry registries marriage contracts endowments calligraphy manuscripts objects correspondence
Subjects money siblings water and irrigation receipts testimony property and property management rent qanats inheritance funerals and burials pilgrimages and shrines travel power of attorney death mahr marriage prayer quarreling financial matters husband and wife divorce dowry baths and bath accessories household furnishings kitchenware clothing jewels and jewelry alimony taʻziyah weddings food debts and loans fuel slaves charity endowments calligraphy poetry practice stores books spices religious objects copper tombs and cemeteries children architecture illness rawzah advice temporary marriage households Ministry of Culture letter writing mosques Hajj housing childbirth infants tea money transfers carpets

Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran

Nina and Siyamak Mihrdad

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