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 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.[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
- 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
References
- WorldCat.
- Dr Farhad Daftary, personal page on the IIS website.
- Institute of Ismaili Studies bio.
- iranica:consulting
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