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 is related to the Aga Khan IV.

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