Clifford Edmund Bosworth


Clifford Edmund Bosworth FBA was an English historian and Orientalist, specialising in Arabic and Iranian studies.

Life

Bosworth was born on 29 December 1928 in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. His father Clifford Bosworth, clerked for Board of Guardians before working for Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, his mother was Gladys Constance Gregory. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in modern history from the St John's College, Oxford, before achieving an MA in Middle Eastern studies and PhD degrees from the University of Edinburgh.
Before attending University of Edinburgh, he worked for Department of Agriculture for Scotland, where he met Annettee Ellen Todd, who w would go on to marry in Edinburgh on 19 September 1957, the couple would go on to have three daughters.
He held permanent posts at the University of St Andrews, University of Manchester, and at the Center for the Humanities at Princeton University. He was a visiting professor at the University of Exeter, where he held the post since 2004. Bosworth died on 28 February 2015, Yeovil, Somerset.

Works

Bosworth is the author of hundreds of articles in academic journals and composite volumes. His other contributions include nearly 200 articles in the Encyclopaedia of Islam and some 100 articles in the Encyclopædia Iranica, as well as articles for Encyclopædia Britannica and Encyclopedia Americana. He was the chief editor of the Encyclopaedia of Islam and a consulting editor of Encyclopædia Iranica.

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