Introducing the Safavid Documents of the Directorate of Documents and Publications of the Central Library of the Holy Shrine at Mashhad (Iran).

The article provides an overview to the documents concerning the Safavid period obtained from the Document Center at the Holy Shrine in Mashhad, Iran. It notes that the department of documents and publications started to operate as section for documents and publications in October 1998 with over 283,000 historical documents of the Shrine and 180,000 from learned families. Moreover, it was renamed the Directorate of Documents and Publications with the sections of Documents Section and Publications section. Several papers composing the Documents Section includes manuscripts of royal orders, papers from Martyr's Foundation, Hajj Hoseyn Aqa Malek collection and other miscellaneous collections.