Clifford Edmund Bosworth

Bosworth 29 Aralık 1928'de Sheffield, Güney Yorkshire'da doğdu. Babası Clifford Bosworth, Emeklilik ve Ulusal Sigorta Bakanlığı'nda çalışmadan önce Koruyucular Kurulu'nda katipti. Annesinin adı Gladys Constance Gregory idi. Orta Doğu çalışmaları alanında yüksek lisans ve Edinburgh Üniversitesi'nden doktora dereceleri almadan önce, Oxford Üniversitesi'nden modern tarih alanında Bachelor of Arts lisans derecesini aldı.Edinburgh Üniversitesi'ne gitmeden önce İskoçya Tarım Bakanlığı'nda çalıştı. Burada Annettee Ellen Todd ile tanıştı ve 19 Eylül 1957'de onunla evlendi. Çiftin üç kız çocuğu oldu.Saint Andrews Üniversitesi, Manchester Üniversitesi ve Princeton Üniversitesi Beşeri Bilimler Merkezi'nde görevlerde bulundu. 2004'ten ölümüne kadar Exeter Üniversitesi'nde misafir öğretim üyesiydi. 28 Şubat 2015'te Yeovil, Somerset'de öldü.Bosworth, akademik dergilerde ve karma ciltlerde yüzlerce makalenin yazarıydı. Diğer katkıları arasında İslam Ansiklopedisi'ndeki yaklaşık 200 makale ve Encyclopædia Iranica'daki yaklaşık 100 makalenin yanı sıra Encyclopædia Britannica ve Encyclopædia Americana için yazdığı makaleler vardı. İslam Ansiklopedisi'nin baş editörü ve Encyclopædia Iranica'nın danışman editörüydü.The Ghaznavids, their empire in Afghanistan and Eastern Iran 994–1040, Edinburgh University Press 1963, 2nd ed. Beirut 1973, repr. New Delhi 1992 (Persian tr.).The Islamic dynasties, a chronological and genealogical handbook, Edinburgh University Press 1967, revised ed. 1980 (Russian, Persian, Turkish, Arabic and French trs.).Sistan under the Arabs, from the Islamic conquest to the rise of the Saffarids (30-250/651-864), IsMEO, Rome 1968 (Persian tr.).The Book of curious and entertaining information, the Lata'if al-ma'arif of Tha'ālibī translated into English, Edinburgh University Press 1968.(Editor, with Joseph Schacht) The legacy of Islam, new edition, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1974 (Arabic tr. Kuwait, 1998).The mediaeval Islamic underworld, the Banu Sasan in Arabic society and literature, 2 vols., Brill, Leiden 1976.The medieval history of Iran, Afghanistan and Central Asia, Variorum, Collected Studies Series, London 1977.The later Ghaznavids, splendour and decay: the dynasty in Afghanistan and northern India 1040–1186, Edinburgh University Press 1977, repr. New Delhi 1992 (Persian tr.)Al-Maqrizi's "Book of contention and strife concerning the relations between the Banu Umayya and the Banu Hashim" translated into English, Journal of Semitic Studies Monographs, 3, Manchester 1981.(Editor, with Carole Hillenbrand) Qajar Iran, political, social and cultural change 1800–1925 [= Festschrift for L.P. Elwell-Sutton], Edinburgh University Press 1984.The History of al-Tabari. Vol. XXXII. The reunification of the Abbasid Caliphate. The caliphate of al-Ma'mun A.D. 812-833/A.H. 198–213, translated and annotated by C.E. Bosworth, SUNY Press, Albany 1987.The History of al-Tabari. Vol. XXX. The Abbasid Caliphate in equilibrium. The caliphates of Musa al-Hadi and Harun al-Rashid A.D. 785-809/A.H. 169–193, translated and annotated by C.E.Bosworth, SUNY Press, Albany 1989.Baha' al-Din al-Amili and his literary anthologies, Journal of Semitic Studies Monographs 10, Manchester 1989.The History of al-Tabari. Vol. XXXIII. Storm and stress along the northern frontiers of the Abbasid Caliphate. The caliphate of al-Mu'tas'im A.D. 833-842/A.H. 218–227, translated and annotated by C.E. Bosworth, SUNY Press, Albany 1991.(editor, with M.E.J. Richardson) Richard Bell, A commentary on the Qur'an, University of Manchester (Journal of Semitic Studies) 1991, 2 vols.The History of the Saffarids of Sistan and the Maliks of Nimruz (247/861 to 949/1452-3), Columbia Lectures on Iranian Studies no. 7, Costa Mesa, Calif. and New York 1994.The Arabs, Byzantium and Iran. Studies in early Islamic history and culture, Variorum, Collected Studies Series, Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot 1996.The New Islamic dynasties. A chronological and genealogical manual, Edinburgh University Press 1996.(Editor, with Muhammad Asim, and contributor) The UNESCO history of civilizations of Central Asia, Vol. IV, The age of achievement. A.D. 750 to the end of the fifteenth century. Part 1, The historical, social and economic setting, Paris 1998. Part 2, The literary, cultural, artistic and scientific achievements, Paris 2000.The History of al-Tabari.  Vol. V. The Sasanids, the Byzantines, the Lakhmids and Yemen, translated and annotated by C.E. Bosworth, SUNY Press, Albany 1999 (editor, and contributor of four chapters)A century of British orientalists 1902–2001 [= Centennial Volume of the Oriental and African Studies Section of the British Academy], Oxford University Press for the British Academy 2001.Abu 'l-Fadl Bayhaqi's Tarkh-i Mas'udi translated into English with a historical, geographical and linguistic commentary, to appear in the Persian Heritage Series, Columbia University, 3 volumes, New York, 2006; An intrepid Scot: William Lithgow of Lanark's travels in the Ottoman Empire and Mediterranean lands 1609–21, Aldershot 2006.