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 theInstitute of Ismaili Studies in London.^[2][1][3]

He was born inBrussels. Daftary received aPh.D. in Economics from theUniversity of California, Berkeley in 1971.^[4] He is a freelance consulting editor of theEncyclopædia Iranica, co-editor (withW. Madelung) of theEncyclopædia Islamica, and the general editor of the Ismaili Heritage Series and the Ismaili Texts and Translations Series.^[5]

Books authored

• Daftary, Farhad (1992),The Isma'ilis: Their History and Doctrines,Cambridge University Press,ISBN 978-0-521-42974-0
• Daftary, Farhad (1994),The Assassin Legends: Myths of the Ismaʻilis,I.B. Tauris,ISBN 978-1-85043-705-5
• Daftary, Farhad (1998),A short history of the Ismailis,Edinburgh University Press,ISBN 978-0-7486-0687-0
• Daftary, Farhad (2004),Ismaili literature, I.B.Tauris,ISBN 978-1-85043-439-9
• Daftary, Farhad (2005),Ismailis in medieval Muslim societies, I.B.Tauris,ISBN 978-1-84511-091-8
• Daftary, Farhad; Hirji, Zulfikar (2008),The Ismailis: An Illustrated History, Azimuth Editions,ISBN 978-1-898592-26-6
• Daftary, Farhad (2020),The Ismaili Imams: A Biographical History, Bloomsbury Academic,ISBN 9780755617982

Books edited

• Daftary, Farhad, ed. (2001),Intellectual Traditions in Islam, I.B. Tauris,ISBN 978-1-86064-760-4
• Daftary, Farhad, ed. (2001),Mediaeval Isma'ili History and Thought, Cambridge University Press,ISBN 978-0-521-00310-0
• Daftary, Farhad;Meri, Josef, eds. (2003),Culture and memory in medieval Islam: essays in honour of Wilferd Madelung, I.B. Tauris,ISBN 978-1-86064-859-5
• Daftary, Farhad;Fernea, Elizabeth;Nanji, Azim, eds. (2010),Living in Historic Cairo: Past and Present in an Islamic City,University of Washington Press,ISBN 978-1-898592-28-0
• Daftary, Farhad, ed. (2011),A Modern History of the Ismailis: Continuity and Change in a Muslim Community, I.B. Tauris,ISBN 978-1-84511-717-7

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