Journal of Documentary and Archival Studies
Scientific Journal

The Transfer of Ownership of Slaves in the Qajar Era (According to Islamic Documents)

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Marzieh Mortazavi

Documents expert (property endowment organization affiliated with Astan Quds Razavi)

https://doi.org/10.30481/psa.2024.442980.1052
Abstract
Servants (bandeh in Persian) belonged to the lower social classes of the Qajar era. The people were obtained to be properties and slaves through various ways. They were employed for various works as household, court, military, and service jobs. Unlike the West, they were behaved humanely in Iran following Sharia orders. Both owner and the servant had mutual rights that both parties should respect. Owners had to give the servants the right to be transferred to another person. This study tried to see how the ownership of slaves has changed over the Qajar era. The results showed that the servants became servants of other owners or sacred places through selling, peace treaty, lease, marriage, gift, and endowment in the form such sharia documents and contracts as purchase agreement, compromise agreement, lease, marriage contract, deed of gift, and endowment deed. Taking a descriptive-analytical method and a social history approach and relying on library resources, especially archival documents this study tried to answer appropriately the posed question of the research

Keywords

Servant
Qajar
Transfer
Islamic Documents
Journal of Documentary and Archival Studies
Volume 2, Issue 2
December 2023
Pages 145-163

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