Nicholas Sims-Williams

Nicholas Sims-Williams (talaffuzi: Nikolas Sims-Uillyams; 1949-yil 11-aprelda tugʻilgan, Chatham, Kent) — London universiteti Sharq va Afrika tadqiqotlari maktabining (SOAS) ingliz professori, u yerda Eron va Markaziy ilmiy tadqiqot professori.

Yaqin va Oʻrta Sharq tillari va madaniyati kafedrasida ishlagan. Sims-Williams Markaziy Osiyo tarixi, xususan Soʻgʻdiy va Baqtriya tillarini oʻrganishga ixtisoslashgan olimdir. Sims-Williams milodning I-III asrlariga oid Qozogʻistonning Kultobeda topilgan soʻgʻd yozuvi ustida ish olib bordi.

Adabiyotlar

• „Sogdian and other Iranian inscriptions of the Upper Indus II“, London (1992)
• „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 Afghanistanʼs 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 va Franz Grenet, The Sogdian Inscriptions of Kultobe, Shygys (Almaty), 2006, pp. 95-111.
• „A new Bactrian Inscription from the time of Kanishka.“ In: Kushan Histories: Literary Sources and Selected Papers from a Symposium at Berlin, December 5 to 7, 2013. Edited by Harry Falk. Hempen Verlag, Bremen (2015), pp. 255-264.