Nicholas Sims-Williams
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Nicholas Sims-Williams (b. April 11, 1949, Chatham, Kent)[1] is a professor of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London,[2] where he is the Research Professor of Iranian and Central Asian Studies at the Department of the Languages and Cultures of Near and Middle East. Sims-Williams is a scholar who specializes in Central Asian history, particularly the study of Sogdian and Bactrian languages. He is also a member of the advisory council of the Iranian Studies Journal.
Sims-Williams recently worked on a dedicatory Sogdian inscription, dated to the 1st-3rd centuries CE, that was discovered at Kultobe in Kazakhstan. It alludes to military operations of the principal towns of Sogdiana against the nomads in the north. The inscription tends to confirm the confederational organization of the Kangju state and its various allies that was known previously from the Chinese texts.[3]
Publications
His published works include:
- "Sogdian and other Iranian inscriptions of the Upper Indus II, London (1992)
- "Bactrian ownership inscriptions" BAI 7, pp173–9 (1993)
- "New light on ancient Afghanistan: the decipherment of Bactrian", London (1997)
- "Bactrian documents from Northern Afghanistan I: Legal and economic documents" Oxford ISBN 0-19-727502-8 (2000)
- "Recent discoveries in the Bactrian language and their historical significance", Society for the Preservation of Afghanistan's Cultural Heritage (Afghanistan). (2004)
- "Some Bactrian seal-inscriptions" in "Afghanistan, ancien carrefour entre l'est et l'ouest" BREPOLS ISBN 2-503-51681-5
- Nicholas Sims-Williams and Franz Grenet, The Sogdian Inscriptions of Kultobe, Shygys (Almaty), 2006, pp. 95-111.
- Nicholas Sims-Williams, Franz Grenet, and Alexandr N. Podushkin, Les plus anciens monuments de la langue sogdienne: les inscriptions de Kultobe au Kazakhstan, Compte-rendus de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 2007 [2009] pp. 1005, 1025-1033.
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
Cite error: Invalid <references> tag; parameter "group" is allowed only.
<references />, or <references group="..." />External links
- Bactrian documents from Ancient Afghanistan
- Nicholas Sims-Williams profile
- Nicholas Sims-Williams MAHRS Profile
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>
 |
This biography article of a United Kingdom academic is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- ↑ Exegisti monumenta: Festschrift in Honour of Nicholas Sims-Williams, Wiesbaden 2009, p. XIII. (Internet Archive).
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Nicholas Sims-Williams and Franz Grenet, The Sogdian Inscriptions of Kultobe, Shygys (Almaty), 2006, pp. 95-111.
- Pages with reference errors
- Use dmy dates from August 2010
- Academics of SOAS, University of London
- British academics
- Central Asian studies
- Iranologists
- Members of the American Philosophical Society
- Members of the French Academy of Sciences
- Living people
- Year of birth missing (living people)
- British academic biography stubs
