Daniel Beben

Professor Daniel Beben is Assistant Professor of History at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan. His research focuses on the history of Ismaili and Sufi communities in pre-modern Iran, Afghanistan and Central Asia.

The First Aga Khan: Memoirs of the 46th Ismaili Imam, is his first co-authored work that offers a new Persian edition and the first English translation of the Ibrat-afza, the memoirs of Hasan Ali Shah, the 46th Imam of the Nizari Ismailis and the first Ismaili Imam to bear the title of Aga Khan. His latest book projects include a monograph on the history of Ismailism in Central Asia and a co-authored work on genealogical traditions in the Badakhshan region.