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Interim Head of Constituency Studies Research Unit and Associate Professor

Authority without Territory: The Ismaili Imamate and the Aga KhanA title granted by the Shah of Persia to the then Ismaili Imam in 1818 and inherited by each of his successors to the Imamate. Development Network (2014) (New York: Palgrave Macmillan)
Aga Khan I. The First Aga Khan: memoirs of the 46th Ismaili Imam. Edited and translated by Daniel Beben and Daryoush Mohammad Poor (2018) (London: I.B. Tauris)
Command and Creation: a Shi’i Cosmological Treatise: a Persion edition and English translation of Muhammad al-Shahrastani’s Majlis-i Maktub (2021). Muḥammad Ibn-ʿAbd-al-Karīm and Daryoush Mohammad Poor (London: Bloomsbury)
Hairi Yazdi, Mehdi, A Philosophical Treatise on Muslim Politics: Wisdom and Governance, tr. Daryoush Mohammad Poor (August 2022) (Springer)

“Secular/Religious Myths of Violence: The Case of Nizārī Ismailis of the Alamūt Period”, Studia Islamica, Vol. 114, No. 1 (2019). Leiden: Brill.
‘Extra-Ismaili Sources and a Shift of Paradigm in Nizari Ismailism’ in Intellectual Interactions in the Islamic World: the Ismaili Thread (2019), London: IIS/I.B. Tauris.
“Nurturing Critical Thinking across Self-Other Dichotomies” in Education and Extremisms: Rethinking Liberal Pedagogies in the Contemporary World (2018), Routledge.
“Social, Economic, Political, and Intellectual Changes in Iran since 1960s”, co-authored with A. Abdi, A. Paya and H. Raghfar in Social Progress in Islamic Countries, eds. Tiliouine, H. and Estes, Richard J. (2016). Springer
“Authority without Territory”, in The Ismaili United Kingdom (2015).
“Imām ʿAlī and walāyaFriendship or assistance. In Sufism the term is used for qualities that can be translated roughly as ‘sainthood’; in Islam, it is used specifically for devotion to theImam (see wilāya)….”, in Imām ʿAlī entry, in Encyclopaedia Islamica, Vol 3 (2011). Leiden: Brill.
“Persian Poetry: Ḥasan-i Maḥmūd-i Kātib”, in An Anthology of Ismaili Literature (2008), tr. with Dr. J. Badakhchani (London: IB Tauris)

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