Farhad Daftary

Farhad Daftary (Persian: فرهاد دفترى‎‎) (born 1938)^[1] is co-director and head of the Department of Academic Research and Publications at the Institute of Ismaili Studies.^[2]

Daftary received his Ph.D. in 1971^[3] from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a consulting editor of the Encyclopaedia Iranica, co-editor (with W. Madelung) of the Encyclopaedia Islamica, and the general editor of the Ismaili Heritage Series and the Ismaili Texts and Translations Series.^[4]

Selected works

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 

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 

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