Clifford Edmund Bosworth

Clifford Edmund Bosworth
C.E. Bosworth dalam konferensi ESCAS di Universitas Cambridge (20 September 2011, foto karya T. Chorotegin).
Lahir	29 Desember 1928 Sheffield, Yorkshire, Inggris
Meninggal	28 February 2015 Yeovil, Somerset, Inggris
Kebangsaan	Britania
Karier ilmiah
Bidang	Studi Iran, studi Islam, studi Arab, studi Turki
Institusi	Universitas Oxford
Pembimbing akademik	Vladimir Minorsky

Clifford Edmund Bosworth FBA (29 Desember 1928 – 28 Februari 2015) adalah seorang sejarawan dan orientalis Inggris, yang mengkhususkan diri dalam studi Arab dan Iran. Ia menerima gelar BA dari Universitas Oxford dan gelar MA dan PhD dari Universitas Edinburgh. Ia menduduki jabatan permanen di Universitas St Andrews, Universitas Manchester, dan Center for the Humanities di Universitas Princeton. Ia telah menulis ratusan artikel dalam jurnal akademik maupun volume komposit. Kontribusi lainnya adalah hampir 200 artikel di Encyclopaedia of Islam dan sekitar 100 artikel di Encyclopædia Iranica, serta artikel-artikel untuk Encyclopædia Britannica dan Encyclopedia Americana. Ia juga merupakan profesor tamu di Universitas Exeter, di mana telah dijalaninya sejak tahun 2004. Salah satu kontribusinya adalah penelitian sejarah Islam di kawasan Afganistan dan Asia Tengah, yang menambah keragaman studi sejarah Islam di kalangan Barat yang ketika itu banyak berfokus ke Timur Tengah saja.^[1]

Bukunya The Islamic dynasties telah diterjemahkan ke bahasa Arab dan Persia. Ia pernah berperan sebagai pemimpin redaksi Encyclopaedia of Islam dan editor konsultan untuk Encyclopaedia Iranica.^[2]

• UNESCO Avicenna Silver Medal, 1998
• Dr Mahmud Afshar Foundation Prize untuk sumbangsihnya pada bidang Iranian Studies, 2001
• Prize by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, Tehran, untuk sumbangsihnya pada Iranian historical studies, 2003
• Triennial Award, 2003

• The Ghaznavids, their empire in Afghanistan and Eastern Iran 994-1040, Edinburgh University Press 1963, 2nd ed. Beirut 1973, repr. New Delhi 1992 (Persia terj.).
• The Islamic dynasties, a chronological and genealogical handbook, Edinburgh University Press 1967, revised ed. 1980 (Rusia, Persia, Turki, Arab and Prancis terj.).
• Sistan under the Arabs, from the Islamic conquest to the rise of the Saffarids (30-250/651-864), IsMEO, Rome 1968 (Persia terj.).
• 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 J. Schacht) The legacy of Islam, new edition, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1974 (Arab terj. 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 (Persia terj.)
• 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 Abbassid caliphate. The caliphate of al-Ma'mun A.D. 812-833/A.H. 198-213, terjemahan dan anotasi oleh C.E. Bosworth, SUNY Press, Albany 1987.
• The History of al-Tabari. Vol. XXX. The Abbassid caliphate in equilibrium. The caliphates of Musa al-Hadi and Harun al-Rashid A.D. 785-809/A.H. 169-193, terjemahan dan anotasi oleh 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 Abbassid caliphate. The caliphate of al-Mu'tas'im A.D. 833-842/A.H. 218-227, terjemahan dan anotasi oleh 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, terjemahan dan anotasi oleh C.E. Bosworth, SUNY Press, Albany 1999.(Editor, dan kontributor empat bab)
• 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, untuk ditampilkan di 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 1609-211, Aldershot 2006.

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