Farhad Daftary Explained

Farhad Daftary (Persian: فرهاد دفترى; born 1938^[1]) is a Belgian-born Iranian-British Islamic scholar who is co-director and head of the Department of Academic Research and Publications at the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London.^[2] He is related to the Aga Khan IV.^[3]

He was born in Brussels. Daftary received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1971.^[4] He is a freelance consulting editor of the Encyclopædia Iranica, co-editor (with W. Madelung) of the Encyclopædia Islamica, and the general editor of the Ismaili Heritage Series and the Ismaili Texts and Translations Series.^[5]

Selected works

Books authored

Books edited

Notes and References

1. علي-دي-أونثاغا). Omar Alí-de-Unzaga (عمر. Introduction: A Biographical Sketch [of Farhad Daftary]]. In Fortresses of Intellect: Ismaili and Other Islamic Studies in Honour of Farhad Daftary, ed. O. Alí-de-Unzaga (London and New York: IB Tauris/IIS), pp. 1-31.
2. https://iis.ac.uk/people/dr-farhad-daftary-0 Dr Farhad Daftary
3. علي-دي-أونثاغا). Omar Alí-de-Unzaga (عمر. 'Introduction: A Biographical Sketch [of Farhad Daftary]']. In Fortresses of Intellect: Ismaili and Other Islamic Studies in Honour of Farhad Daftary, ed. O. Alí-de-Unzaga (London and New York: IB Tauris/IIS), pp. 1-31.
4. https://iis.ac.uk/people/dr-farhad-daftary-0 Institute of Ismaili Studies bio
5. Web site: iranica:consulting . 2011-06-24 . 2011-06-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110624033248/http://iranica.com/pages/consulting . dead .