Nimtaj Khanum, daughter of Ruqiyah Khanum and ʻAbd al-Husayn Mirza ʻAlaʼ al-Sultan. She was first married to Nasir al-Din Mirza Nasiri, son of Muzaffar al-Din Shah, and later married Yahya Mirza Yumn al-Sultan Dawlatshahi.
Marriage contract of Nimtaj Khanum, daughter of Ruqiyah Khanum and ʻAbd al-Husayn Mirza ʻAlaʼ al-Sultan, and Yahya Mirza Yumn al-Sultan Dawlatshahi, son of Nigar Khanum and Sultan Ahmad Mirza Yumn al-Dawlah.
Left to right: (standing) Abu al-Qasim Mirza Dawlatshahi, Yahya Mirza Yumn al-Sultan Dawlatshahi, Muhammad Mirza Dawlatshahi; (seated) Nigar Khanum Farah al-Dawlah, Nimtaj Khanum Muʻizzi (wife of Yahya)
The first page of a Qur'an belonging to Gawhar Taj Jahandari (the granddaughter of Dirakhshandah Khanum); it features birth records of the children of Ruqiyah Khanum and 'Abd al-Husayn Mirza 'Ala' al-Sultan: Fatimah Sultan, 19 June 1889; Ghulmhusayn Mirza, 22 April 1893; Nimtaj Khanum, 9 January 1898; Jalal al-Din Mirza, 9 January 1900; Muhammad Riza Mirza, 18 December 1906; Fakhri Khanum [Fakhr al-Taj], 10 April 1908; and 'Alamtaj Khanum, 3 February 1909.
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