Farhad Daftary

Farhad Daftary (; born 1938) 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 was born in Brussels. Daftary received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1971. 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. Provided by Wikipedia