Daryoush Mohammad Poor

Daryoush Mohammad Poor is an Associate Professor in the Department of Academic Research and the Interim Head of Constituency Studies Unit at the Institute of Ismaili Studies. His first monograph, Authority without Territory: The Aga Khan Development Network and the Ismaili Imamate (2014) is a fresh theoretical engagement with contemporary institutions of the Ismaili imamate. His most recent IIS book is Command and Creation: A Shi‘i Cosmological Treatise, is a Persian edition and English translation of Muhammad al-Shahrastani’s Majlis-i maktūb (2021). He is also the author of several chapters and articles in the area of Ismaili studies and political philosophy.

His latest work, A Philosophical Treatise on Muslim Politics: Wisdom and Governance (2022) is an English translation of Mehdi Hairi Yazdi’s Ḥikmat wa ḥukūmat. He is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the UK and Editor of the Ismaili Heritage Series.