Farhad Daftary

Farhad Daftary (persiano: فرهاد دفتری‎) (Bruxelles, 23 dicembre 1938^[1]) è un islamista iraniano naturalizzato britannico^[2].

Daftary ha conseguito nel 1971 un Ph.D. nell'University of California, Berkeley. È consulting editor dell'Encyclopaedia Iranica, coeditore (con W. Madelung) dell'Encyclopaedia Islamica ed editore della Ismaili Heritage Series and the Ismaili Texts and Translations Series^[3] del The Institute of Ismaili Studies di Londra

Autore

• Farhad Daftary, The Isma'ilis: Their History and Doctrines, Cambridge University Press, 1992, ISBN 978-0-521-42974-0.
• Farhad Daftary, The Assassin Legends: Myths of the Ismaʻilis, I.B. Tauris, 1994, ISBN 978-1-85043-705-5.
• Farhad Daftary, A short history of the Ismailis, Edinburgh University Press, 1998, ISBN 978-0-7486-0687-0. (vers. ital. Gli ismailiti. Storia di una comunità musulmana, a cura di A. Straface, Marsilio, 2011)
• Farhad Daftary, Ismaili literature, I.B.Tauris, 2004, ISBN 978-1-85043-439-9.
• Farhad Daftary, Ismailis in medieval Muslim societies, I.B.Tauris, 2005, ISBN 978-1-84511-091-8.
• Farhad Daftary e Zulfikar Hirji, The Ismailis: An Illustrated History, Azimuth Editions, 2008, ISBN 978-1-898592-26-6.

Curatore di libri

• Farhad Daftary (a cura di), Intellectual Traditions in Islam, I.B. Tauris, 2001, ISBN 978-1-86064-760-4.
• Farhad Daftary (a cura di), Mediaeval Isma'ili History and Thought, Cambridge University Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-521-00310-0.
• Farhad Daftary e Josef Meri (a cura di), Culture and memory in medieval Islam: essays in honour of Wilferd Madelung, I.B. Tauris, 2003, ISBN 978-1-86064-859-5.
• Farhad Daftary, Elizabeth Fernea e Azim Nanji (a cura di), Living in Historic Cairo: Past and Present in an Islamic City, University of Washington Press, 2010, ISBN 978-1-898592-28-0.