Farhad Daftary

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

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

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 {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |editor2link= ignored (|editor-link2= suggested) (help)
• 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 {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |editor2link= ignored (|editor-link2= suggested) (help); Unknown parameter |editor3link= ignored (|editor-link3= suggested) (help)
• 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