Farhad Daftary

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][1] 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]

  1. ^ a b 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. ^ Dr Farhad Daftary, personal page on the IIS website.
  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. ^ Institute of Ismaili Studies bio.
  5. ^ "iranica:consulting". Archived from the original on 2011-06-24. Retrieved 2011-06-24.