William Ambrose Shedd – the author of this manuscript – was born on January 24, 1865 in the village of Seir in Northwestern Persia. His...
The contemporary arts of Iran have yet to live across many zones of criticism, debate, and philosophical understanding on the way to more widespread...
First published in hard copy edition between 1988-2008, this 8-volume paperback edition includes a new introduction in Persian, errata for each...
In 1926, Arthur Upham Pope, in commencing a decade of photographing for the monumental A Survey of Persian Art, recorded traditional craftsmen at...
NOTE: This collection includes two previously unpublished volumes, Vol. XVII and Vol. XVIII., a total of 18 volumes. The final volume of A Survey...
The Bewildered Cameleer is a novel by Iran’s first and best-known Iranian female novelist and short-story writer, Simin Daneshvar (1921-2012)....
This book is a general survey of language and images that arouse sexual desire. The book begins by examining the works of the great Persian poets and...
Zoroastrianism is both an ancient and still practiced religion. At its height it was the state religion of the Sasanian empire (224 to 651 AD) that...
Volume I: 312 pp., 22 eight-color plates, one plate ready to be framed, 284 black & white llustrations. Volume II: 560 pp., 1 eight-color plate,...
Nigāristān (compiled 1334–5) is an important work of Persian wisdom literature and one of the first works written on the model...
Armenian-Iranian interactions date back to the depths of antiquity. At times, Armenia and Iran were friends and allies, even sharing common...
Arthur Upham Pope and his wife Phyllis Ackerman were pioneers in the study of the arts of Asia, with a paramount dedication to Persian art, history,...
The importance of the site of Shengavit, which is located in the neighborhood of the same name within the Armenian capital city of Yerevan, is its...
Dance in the Persianate World is a rich collected volume featuring the most up-to-date writings that addresses multiple issues surrounding dance, its...
The Cappella Palatina’s place within the history of art is unique for it represents the visual amalgamation of three distinct cultures. The...
The diaries, letters and essays are extraordinary and factual eyewitness accounts of Tabriz and Tehran’s social, military and political life in...
Among the .proud remains and wonderful memorials of the ancient land of Iran/Persia are the palaces which the Achaemenian Kings built at Pasargadae...
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Mazda Publishers was established in 1980 by a college professor, Dr. A. K. Jabbari, as a scholarly publishing house. Since then, the Press has become a major source for information about Iran/Persia, the Greater Iran, the Persian Gulf region, and parts of the Middle East and Central Asia. Read More
Dance in the Persianate World is a rich collected volume...
Welcome to Mazda Images Resource. Mazda Images Resource is a large collection of fine art and rare stock photo archive, with hundreds of searchable images, available for licensing to all media....
Historic Map of the MIddle East and the Persian Gulf, circa 1951. Free download.
The Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres of France has awarded the 2017 The Raymond and Yvonne Lantier Foundation Prize to Dr. Matteo Compareti for his book entitled Samarkand: The...