Mehrdad Vahdati
Daneshmand
Education:
MLS (Master of Library Science) 1969 to 1971
Tehran University, Education Faculty
- Thesis: A Bibliography of Printed Iranian Individual Biographies.
Joint project with Mehdi Shafiie. Thesis suoervisor
BA in English literature, 1963 to 1967
Literature and Foreign Languages College, Tehran
Publications:
Translated Books from English:
- Sino-Iranica; Chinese contributions to the history of
civilization in ancient Iran, with special reference to the history of
cultivated plants and products
By Berthold Laufer
Chicago, 1919.
Mehrdad Vahdati Daneshmand (Persian Translator)
University Publishers, Tehran; Also free Internet file by this
translator:
Grabar, Oleg. : Chāp-i 2. : 1390 [2011]
- Kauz, Ralph: Hormoz dar
manābe dowreh-hā-ye Yuan va Ming [Farsi, Western; Persian] / Vahdati
Daneshmand, Mehrdad / Tehrān: Markaz Nashr Daneshgahi [Iran, Islamic
Rep.],2004. four, 90p. Hormuz in Yuan and Ming sources [English].
- "City in the World of Islam"
by Oleg Grabar, part of "World of Islam" series edited by
Bernard Lewis, analyzing different aspects of history, culture and of
Islamic civilization. Basirat Publishers, Tehran
- "Music in the World of Islam"
by Amnon Shiloah is another article in" World of Islam reviewing music history of music in Islamic World discussing different styles and techniques of playing while
considering theoretical aspects regarding music and religion as well as
philosophy in music. Basirat Publishers, Tehran
- "Art
in the World of Islam" by Richard Ettinghausen, who discusses the
fundamental question "Is there a phenomenon called Islamic Art, an
art featuring general characteristics of Islam?" Basirat Publishers, Tehran
- Fez:
City of Islam (Islamic Texts Society) Hardcover – December 1,
1992
By Titus
Burckhardt (Author), William
Stoddart (English Translator)
Mehrdad Vahdati Daneshmand (Persian Translator)
Hekmat Publishers, Tehran
- Siena,
City of the Virgin (Sacred Art in Tradition) Paperback – Illustrated, 21
Mar 2009
By Titus Burckhardt (Author)
Mehrdad Vahdati Daneshmand (Persian Translator)
Hekmat Publishers, Tehran
- Moorish
Culture in Spain Paperback – Apr 1 1999
By Titus
Burckhardt (Author), William
Stoddardt (English Translator)
Mehrdad Vahdati Daneshmand (Persian Translator)
Hekmat Publishers, Tehran
- Fuzzy
Systems for Information Processing; K. Asai
Mehrdad Vahdati Daneshmand (Persian Translator)
University Publishers, Tehran
- Rethinking
visual anthropology, 1997
Morphy, Howard , Banks, Marcus
Mehrdad Vahdati Daneshmand (Persian Translator)
Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization, Tehran
- Conservation
of Earth Structures, 1998
Warren, John
Mehrdad Vahdati Daneshmand (Persian Translator)
Iran ICOMOS Cultural Institute, Tehran
- General introduction to the techniques of
information and documentation work
By Guinchat, Claire [14], Menou, Michel J.
Mehrdad Vahdati Daneshmand (Persian Translator)
Ministry or Culture and Islamic Guidance Publisgers, Tehran
- Rogue
States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs.
Paperback – Aug 1 2000
By Noam Chomsky (Author)
Mehrdad Vahdati Daneshmand (Persian Translator)
Ministry or Culture and Islamic Guidance Publishers, Tehran
- Applied
anthropology: tools and perspectives for contemporary practice /
Alexander M. Ervin
Ervin, Alexander M. (Alexander MacKay)
Mehrdad Vahdati Daneshmand (Persian Translator)
Afkar Publishing, Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization
- Cultural
Industries: A Challenge for the Future of Culture
Paperback – September, 1982
By UNESCO
Mehrdad Vahdati Daneshmand (Persian Translator)
Negahe Nou Publishing, Tehran.
- The
Iranian revival (The Making of the past) Hardcover – 1977
By Georgina Herrmann (Author)
Mehrdad Vahdati Daneshmand (Persian Translator)
University Publishers, Tehran
- Conservation
standards for works of art in transit and on exhibition
Stolow, Nathan (author)
Mehrdad Vahdati Daneshmand (Persian Translator)
Humanities and Cultural Studies Research Institute Publishers, Tehran
- Museum
collection storage / E. Verner Johnson and Joanne C. Horgan. Johnson,
E. Verner (Ernst Verner) Paris : Unesco, 1979.
Mehrdad Vahdati Daneshmand (Persian Translator)
Humanities and Cultural Studies Research Institute Publishers, Tehran
Grabar, Oleg
Published by Yale University Press, New Haven and London (1987)
Mehrdad Vahdati Daneshmand (Persian Translator)
Humanities and Cultural Studies Research Institute Publishers, Tehran
- The
Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991
Eric J. Hobsbawm
London, Michael Joseph, 1994
Mehrdad Vahdati Daneshmand (Persian Translator)
Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance Publishing, Tehran
- Mostly
miniatures: an introduction to Persian painting /
Oleg Grabar.
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, c2000
Mehrdad Vahdati Daneshmand (Persian Translator)
Iranian Academy of Arts Publishing
- Islamic
Architecture and Its Decoration Hardcover – Nov 1967
By Derek
Hill (Author), Oleg
Grabar (Author)
Mehrdad Vahdati Daneshmand (Persian Translator)
Humanities and Cultural Studies Research Institute Publishers, Tehran
- The
Middle Eastern City and Islamic Urbanism: An Annotated Bibliography of
Western Literature, edited by Michael E. Bonine, Eckart
Ehlers, Thomas Krafft & George Stöber. (Bonner Geographische
Abhandlungen, Heft 91) 877 pages, map, indexes. Bonn: Ferd. Dümmlers
Verlag, 1994. n.p.
Mehrdad Vahdati Daneshmand (Persian Translator)
Athar Journal, Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization
- “A tomb for Cassandane,” Orientalia Jacques
Duchesne-Guillemin emerito oblata, Acta Iranica 23, Leiden, 1984, pp. 67-71.
BOYCE, MARY
Mehrdad Vahdati Daneshmand (Persian Translator)
Athar Journal, Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization
- The
Archaeology and Early History of the Persian Gulf
Article · January 2009
Daniel T. Potts
Mehrdad Vahdati Daneshmand (Persian Translator)
Ministry or Culture and Islamic Guidance, Tehran
- The
Sasanian relationship with South Arabia : literary, epigraphic and oral
historical perspectives
By Daniel T. Potts
Mehrdad Vahdati Daneshmand (Persian Translator)
Ministry or Culture and Islamic Guidance Publishing, Tehran
- The
Persian Gulf in Late Antiquity: The Sasanian Era (200–700 c.e.)
Touraj Daryaee
Mehrdad Vahdati Daneshmand (Persian Translator)
Ministry or Culture and Islamic Guidance 1982 to 1992, Tehran
- The
Gift of Nowruz
Mehrdad Vahdati Daneshmand
Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization, Tehran
Publication:
-Journals
-Reviews
- Prefacing
the Image: The Writing of Art History in
Sixteenth-Century Iran, Studies and Sources in Islamic Art and
Architecture 9 (Leiden, Boston, Cologne: Brill, 2001… Mehrdad Vahdati Daneshmend,
Khiyal 11 (Autumn 2004)…
- Conferences
Asura in India. Moharram Seminar, Tehran, Iran, Iranian Cultural
Heritage Organization.
Employment
Translator/interpreter and media Analyst, Iranian Imperial Court, General Office of
Press and Information, July 1971 to February 1979, victory of the Islamic
Revolution
Founder and head Librarian, General Office of Museums Library, Ministry
or Culture and Islamic Guidance 1982 to 1992
Organizer and Director of Central Library and research faculty member
at Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization from 1992 to 2000
After Voluntary undue Retirement from the above position:
Co-founding, Organizing and directing Iranian Academy of Arts Library
from scratch in 2001, and leaving behind a well-organized modern specialized
art library with a collection of more than 65000 volumes with a respectable reliable
database in 2006, again by undue and somehow
obligatory abdication in 2006.
During the last 20 years of service teaching English as a second language
at IRIAF in the afternoon shift for more than ten years and 12000 hours,
…Teaching specialized English language at some universities and higher
education centers.
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References:
- Dr.
Nooshafarin Ansari, Tehran
University Professor, Thesis Supervisor
- Dr.
Mndana Sedigh Behzadi, retired Faulty member, Iranian National Library
and Ex General Director of library IPM
- Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences
- Retired
IRIAF Colonel Ghazazani, Commander of IRIAF Language Training Center
- Mehdi
Shafiee, Shahid Bahonar Kerman University Professor
- Mohammad
Hussein Hojjaolislami, Alzhra University Professor
- Sayed
Mohammad Beheshti, Head of the Iranian Cultural Heritage
Organization Research center
- Jalil
Golshan, Deputy of the Iranian Cultural Heritage
Organization Research center
- Fariba
Farzam, General Director, Library and Documentation
Center, Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization.
