Farhad Daftary is Co-Director of the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, and Head of its Department of Academic Research and Publications. An authority on both Shi`i and Ismaili studies, he has lectured and published widely, with more than 200 articles, encyclopaedia entries, edited books and acclaimed monographs. Most recent of these are: Ismaili History and Intellectual Traditions (2017), Fifty Years in the East: The Memoirs of Wladimir Ivanow (2015) and The Study of Shi'i Islam (2014). Dr Daftary's books have been translated into Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Urdu, Gujarati, Chinese, Indonesian and numerous European languages.
Shainool Jiwa is a senior faculty member at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London. As a specialist on the Fatimids, she has written and lectured extensively on medieval Islamic history and has edited and translated key medieval Arabic texts relating to Fatimid history, including The Founder of Cairo (2013) and Towards a Shi`i Mediterranean Empire (2009). Dr Jiwa is also the co-editor of The Shi`i World: Pathways in Tradition and Modernity (2015).
