About Farhad Daftary
Born 1938. Farhad Daftary is a British historian, writer and islamicist.
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.
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Who is Farhad Daftary?
Islamic scholar
When was Farhad Daftary born?
Farhad Daftary was born in 1938 in Brussels-Capital Region.
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Farhad Daftary is a historian, writer and islamicist.
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Farhad Daftary is British.
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