克利福德・埃德蒙德・博斯沃思（英語：Clifford Edmund Bosworth；1928 年 12 月 29 日 - 2015 年 2 月 18 日）FBA，是一位英國歷史學家、東方學學者，專攻阿拉伯學、伊朗學。



生平

博斯沃思 1928 年 12 月 29 日生於英格蘭謝菲爾德。他的父親克利福德・博斯沃思曾在監護委員會和養老金與國家保險部工作；母親名叫格拉迪斯・康斯坦斯・格雷戈里（Gladys Constance Gregory）。他在牛津大學聖約翰學院獲現代史文學學士學位，在愛丁堡大學獲中東學文學碩士與研究博士學位。

進入愛丁堡大學前，他先在蘇格蘭農業部（Department of Agriculture for Scotland）工作，在那裡認識了安妮特・艾倫・托德（Annettee Ellen Todd），兩人於 1957 年 9 月 19 日結婚，後生有三女。

他在聖安德魯大學、曼徹斯特大學、普林斯頓大學人文學中心（Center for the Humanities）有長期教職，2004 年後並任埃克塞特大學客座教授。2015 年 2 月 26 日，他在薩默賽特郡約維爾去世。



貢獻

博斯沃思在學術期刊上發表過上百篇論文，出版十幾本專著。另外，他任伊斯蘭百科全書的主編，擔任伊朗百科全書的諮詢編輯，並撰寫其中的部分文章（伊斯蘭百科全書 200 餘篇，伊朗百科全書 100 餘篇），並為大英百科全書和大美百科全書撰寫部分文章。



著作


* _The Ghaznavids, their empire in Afghanistan and Eastern Iran 994–1040_, Edinburgh University Press 1963, 2nd ed. Beirut 1973, repr. New Delhi 1992 （有波斯語譯本）

* _The Islamic dynasties, a chronological and genealogical handbook_, Edinburgh University Press 1967, revised ed. 1980 （有俄語、波斯語、土耳其語、阿拉伯語、法語、漢語譯本）

* _Sistan under the Arabs, from the Islamic conquest to the rise of the Saffarids (30-250/651-864)_, IsMEO, Rome 1968 （有波斯語譯本）

* _The Book of curious and entertaining information, the Lata'if al-ma'arif of Tha'ālibī translated into English_, Edinburgh University Press 1968.

* (Editor) _Iran and Islam_, in memory of the late Vladimir Minorsky, Edinburgh University Press 1971.

* (Editor, with Joseph Schacht) _The legacy of Islam_, new edition, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1974 （有阿拉伯語譯本，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.

* _Medieval Arabic culture and administration_, Variorum, Collected Studies Series, London 1982.

* (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.



獲獎


* 聯合國教科文組織阿維森納銀獎（1998）

* 馬哈茂德・阿夫沙爾博士獎（Dr Mahmud Afshar Foundation Prize，2001）

* 伊朗文化和伊斯蘭指導部獎（2003）

* 三年獎（Triennial Award，2003）



來源



外部連結


* _Curriculum vitae_

* WorldCat 聯合目錄中克利福德・埃德蒙德・博斯沃思的著作或與之相關的著作