In the month of Isfand 1309 (February-March 1931), the first issue of Nāmah-i Tamaddun was published in Mashhad under the management of Sayyid ʻAlī Tamaddun-i Khurāsānī. Nāmah-i Tamaddun was a political, scientific, literary, and social magazine, and until the year 1310 (1931-1932), a complete series of 12 issues was regularly published, after which it was discontinued. In the spring of 1329 (1950), ʻAlī Tamaddun suddenly passed away due to a heart attack, and his brother Aḥmad Tamaddunī, who had been assisting him during the publication of the first series, transferred the licence of Nāmah-i Tamaddun to his own name and independently undertook to reprint it.
The first issue of the second series of the periodical was published after twenty years in Mihr 1330 (September-October 1951).
Available issues:
- 1309 H.Sh. (1 Issue: Vol. 1 No.1)
- 1310 H.Sh. (8 Issues: Vol. 1 No. 2-12)
- 1330 H.Sh. (2 Issues: Vol. 2 No. 1-2)
- 1331 H.Sh. (4 Issues: Vol. 2 No. 3-6)
- 1332 H.Sh. (1 Issue: Vol. 2 No. 7)
- 1333 H.Sh. (1 Issue: Vol. 2 No. 8)
در اسفند ماه سال ۱۳۰۹ اولین شماره نامه تمدن به مدیرت سید علی تمدن خراسانی در مشهد منتشر شد. نامه تمدن مجله ای سیاسی، علمی، ادبی، اجتماعی بود و تا سال ۱۳۱۰ یک دوره کامل آن در ۱۲ شماره مرتبا منتشر گردید، بعد از آن تعطیل شد. در بهار ۱۳۲۹ ناگهان علی تمدن به علت سکته قلبی در گذشت و برادر او احمد تمدنی که در حین انتشار دوره اول کمک حال او بود، امتیاز نامه تمدن را به اسم خود کرد و مستقل اقدام به چاپ مجدد آن کرد.
اولین شماره دوره دوم نشریه بعد از بیست سال در مهر ۱۳۳۰ چاپ شد.

