Mother of Ruqiyah Khanum and wife of Shaykh ‘Abd Allah Ha’iri (known as Rahmat ‘Ali Shah); the date of January 1961 is written on both recto and verso.
Mother of Ruqiyah Khanum and wife of Shaykh ‘Abd Allah Ha’iri (known as Rahmat ‘Ali Shah)
Left to right: Aminah Khanum known as Bibi Jun and her daughter, Ruqiyah Khanum (mother of Poori Soltani); there is a handwritten date beneath the photograph: "March 1953" and and inscription on verso: "Poori jan, Me and Bibi Jan, came to Tehran to visit you, yours, your mother, March 20, 1953"
From left to right: Fatimah Khanum (daughter of Aminah Khanum), Aminah Khanum, Quds Iran (daughter of Fatimah Khanum), Ruqiyah Khanum (daughter of Aminah Khanum), at Aminah Khanum's house.
Fatimah Juz’ Khvajah-nuri [Ha’iri] (mother of Quds Iran and wife of ‘Abbas Khvajah-nuri), daughter of Bibi Khanum [Aminah Khanum] and Haj Shaykh ‘Abd Allah, was born in 1897 or 1898 in Gunabad; she died on May 4, 1999 in Tehran; the birth certificate was issued on May 16, 1919.
According to this birth certificate, Ruqiyah Khanum, daughter of Aminah Khanum and ‘Abd Allah, was born in 1890 or 1891 and died on 27 September 1988 in Tehran; the birth certificate was issued on 16 April 1919 and the replacement was issued on 27 May 1948; List of her children according to the birth certificate: Yusuf (b. 1909 or 1910), Mahmud (b. 1911 or 1912), Mas‘ud [b. 1913 or 1914], Zahra (b. 1914 or 1915), and Hamidah (b. 1916 or 1917); [her other children not listed in the birth certificate: Munir and Poori (Porandokht)]
Front row, from left: Aminah Khanum known as Bibi Jun and Ruqiyah Khanum known as Khanum Buzurg (daughter of Aminah Khanum); second row, from left: Shifteh Soltani (daughter of Quds Iran), Quds Iran Juz’ Khvajah-nuri (granddaughter of Aminah Khanum), Marziyah Khanum (daughter of Ruqiyah Khanum), Badr al-Zaman (or Hamidah, daughter of Ruqiyah Khanum), and Shirin Sultani (daughter of Quds Iran); third row, from left: Yusuf Sultani (son of Ruqiyah Khanum), Puran Pizishkiyan (wife of Yusuf), Shams al-Zaman (or Zahra, daughter of Ruqiyah Khanum), Ahmad ‘Azima (Shams al-Zaman's son); fourth row,...
Interview with Poorandokht Soltani, conducted by Farshideh Mirbaghdadabadi and Afsaneh Najmabadi on 18 June 2013. After introducing members of her family in the previous and current generations (with reference to photographs and documents), she shares memories of her mother and grandmother, and in the end she mentions her marriage with Murtaza Kayvan.
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