All Outputs (67)

Further Old Khotanese Texts in ‘Metre B’ (2025)
Journal Article
Sims-Williams, N. (2025). Further Old Khotanese Texts in ‘Metre B’. Indo-Iranian Journal, 68(1), 15-33. https://doi.org/10.1163/15728536-06801008

Old Khotanese poetry makes use of three metres, conventionally referred to as A, B and C. The metre of the longest surviving Old Khotanese poem, the Book of Zambasta (Z) was analysed in detail in Sims-Williams 2022, which was followed by a series of... Read More about Further Old Khotanese Texts in ‘Metre B’.

Metrical passages in the Khotanese Saṃghāṭa-sūtra (2023)
Journal Article
Sims-Williams, N. (2023). Metrical passages in the Khotanese Saṃghāṭa-sūtra. Indo-Iranian Journal, 66(2), 97-126. https://doi.org/10.1163/15728536-06602002

The Buddhist Sanskrit Saṃghāṭa-sūtra includes several longer or shorter passages in verse, mostly ślokas. Many though not all of these verse passages also appear in metrical form in the Khotanese version, which makes use of all three of the metres kn... Read More about Metrical passages in the Khotanese Saṃghāṭa-sūtra.

The Avestan Hymn to Sraoša - Yasna 56 and 57: A Critical Edition with Commentary and Glossary (2023)
Thesis
Grassi, C. (2023). The Avestan Hymn to Sraoša - Yasna 56 and 57: A Critical Edition with Commentary and Glossary [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00038681

The aim of this thesis is to provide a comprehensive study of chapter 56 and 57 of the Yasna, a text known as Srōš Yašt, that is the Avestan hymn dedicated to the god Sraōša. The thesis includes a new critical edition of the text, based on 31 liturgi... Read More about The Avestan Hymn to Sraoša - Yasna 56 and 57: A Critical Edition with Commentary and Glossary.

From Liturgy to Pharmacology: Christian Sogdian texts from the Turfan Collection (2019)
Book
Sims-Williams, N. (2019). From Liturgy to Pharmacology: Christian Sogdian texts from the Turfan Collection. Brepols.

Containing a variety of texts ranging from liturgy to pharmacology via hagiography, calendars and ascetical works by Isaac of Nineveh, this volume completes the publication of all known Christian Sogdian texts. This volume completes the publication o... Read More about From Liturgy to Pharmacology: Christian Sogdian texts from the Turfan Collection.

A multilingual Manichean calendar from Turfan (U130) (2019)
Book Chapter
Sims-Williams, N. (2019). A multilingual Manichean calendar from Turfan (U130). In Z. Gulácsi (Ed.), Language, society, and religion in the world of the Turks : Festschrift for Larry Clark at seventy-five (pp. 251-266). Brepols.

Sogdian Documents from Khotan in the Museum of Renmin University of China (2018)
Book
Sims-Williams, N., & Bi, B. (2018). Sogdian Documents from Khotan in the Museum of Renmin University of China. Zhongguo shehui kexue chubanshe = 中国社会科学出版社.

Studies in the chronology of the Bactrian documents from Northern Afghanistan (2018)
Book
Sims-Williams, N., & De Blois, F. (2018). Studies in the chronology of the Bactrian documents from Northern Afghanistan. Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1wxr4d

More than 150 documents in Bactrian, the chief administrative language of pre-Islamic Afghanistan, have come to light during the last twenty-five years. These documents include letters, legal contracts, economic documents and a few Buddhist texts; ma... Read More about Studies in the chronology of the Bactrian documents from Northern Afghanistan.

An ascetic miscellany: The Christian Sogdian manuscript E28 (2017)
Book
Sims-Williams, N. (2017). An ascetic miscellany: The Christian Sogdian manuscript E28. Brepols.

Two Iranian loanwords in Syriac (2017)
Journal Article
Sims-Williams, N. (2017). Two Iranian loanwords in Syriac. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 80(3), 485-490. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X1700091X

Another Sogdian-Chinese bilingual epitaph (2017)
Journal Article
Sims-Williams, N., Bi, B., & Yan, Y. (2017). Another Sogdian-Chinese bilingual epitaph. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 80(2), 305-318. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X17000489

Two words in the Sogdian version of the Antirrheticus of Evagrius Ponticus (2017)
Journal Article
Sims-Williams, N. (2017). Two words in the Sogdian version of the Antirrheticus of Evagrius Ponticus. DABIR: Digital Archive of Brief Notes and Iran Review, 1(4), 36-39. https://sites.uci.edu/dabirjournal/issues/issue-04/

A Dictionary: Christian Sogdian, Syriac and English (2016)
Book
Sims-Williams, N. (2016). A Dictionary: Christian Sogdian, Syriac and English. Reichert. https://doi.org/10.29091/9783752005660

Many works of Syriac literature, including some now lost, were translated into Sogdian, a language of the Iranian family. This Dictionary makes the whole material accessible to both Iranists and Syriacists, giving a full semantic and morphological an... Read More about A Dictionary: Christian Sogdian, Syriac and English.

The Life of St Serapion and other Christian Sogdian texts from the manuscripts E25 and E26 (2015)
Book
Sims-Williams, N. (2015). The Life of St Serapion and other Christian Sogdian texts from the manuscripts E25 and E26. Brepols. http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9782503555362-1

Turco-Sogdian Documents from 9th–10th century Dunhuang (2015)
Book
Sims-Williams, N., & Hamilton, J. (2015). Turco-Sogdian Documents from 9th–10th century Dunhuang. SOAS University of London.

Biblical and other Christian Sogdian texts from the Turfan Collection (2014)
Book
Sims-Williams, N. (2014). Biblical and other Christian Sogdian texts from the Turfan Collection. Brepols. http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9782503552385-1

The Sogdian potentialis (2008)
Book Chapter
Sims-Williams, N. (2008). The Sogdian potentialis. In M. Macuch, M. Maggi, & W. Sundermann (Eds.), Iranian languages and texts from Iran and Turan. Ronald E. Emmerick memorial volume (pp. 377-386). Harrassowitz.

Remarks on the Bactrian colophon. [Appendix to S. Karashima, “Fragments of a manuscript of the Prātimokṣasūtra of the Mahāsāṃghika-(Lokottara)vādins (1)”] (2008)
Journal Article
Sims-Williams, N. (2008). Remarks on the Bactrian colophon. [Appendix to S. Karashima, “Fragments of a manuscript of the Prātimokṣasūtra of the Mahāsāṃghika-(Lokottara)vādins (1)”]. Sōka Daigaku Kokusai Bukkyōgaku Kōtō Kenkyūjo nempō, 11, 89-90.

The Sasanians in the East. A Bactrian archive from northern Afghanistan (2008)
Book Chapter
Sims-Williams, N. (2008). The Sasanians in the East. A Bactrian archive from northern Afghanistan. In V. S. Curtis, & S. Stewart (Eds.), The Sasanian Era (3, pp. 88-102). I.B.Tauris.

Jaḡatu (2008)
Book Chapter
Sims-Williams, N. (2008). Jaḡatu. In E. Yarshater (Ed.), Encyclopaedia Iranica. Vol.14/4 (pp. 372-373). Encyclopaedia Iranica Foundation Inc.

Bactrian tallies (2008)
Book Chapter
Sims-Williams, N. (2008). Bactrian tallies. In B. Huber, M. Volkart, & P. Widmer (Eds.), Chomolangma, Demawend und Kasbek, Festschrift für Roland Bielmeier zu seinem 65. Geburtstag (2, pp. 525-523). International Institute for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies.