Clifford Edmund Bosworth

Bosworth was born in Sheffield. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in modern history from St John's College, Oxford,and both MA in Middle Eastern studies and PhD degrees from the University of Edinburgh. He held permanent posts at the University of St Andrews, the University of Manchester and the Center for the Humanities at Princeton University. He was also a visiting professor at the University of Exeter. Bosworth was a historian and Orientalist, specialising in Arabic and Iranian studies.