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.Dr Farhad Daftary, personal page on the IIS website.

He was born in Brussels. Daftary received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1971.Institute of Ismaili Studies bio. 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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