Farhad Daftary ( fa, فرهاد دفترى; born 1938 in
Brussels
Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...
) 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.
He is related to the
Aga Khan IV
Shāh Karim al-Husayni (born 13 December 1936), known by the religious title Mawlānā Hazar Imam by his Ismaili followers and elsewhere as Aga Khan IV, is the 49th and current Imam of Nizari Ismailis, a denomination within Shia Islam. He ha ...
.
Daftary received a
Ph.D. in Economics from the
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant un ...
in 1971. He is a freelance consulting editor of the ''
Encyclopædia Iranica
''Encyclopædia Iranica'' is a project whose goal is to create a comprehensive and authoritative English language encyclopedia about the history, culture, and civilization of Iranian peoples from prehistory to modern times.
Scope
The ''Encyc ...
'', 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.
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References
1938 births
Living people
20th-century Muslim scholars of Islam
Writers from Brussels
Iran's Book of the Year Awards recipients
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