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Authored Books

Sims-Williams, Nicholas (2019) From Liturgy to Pharmacology: Christian Sogdian texts from the Turfan Collection. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols. (Berliner Turfantexte, v XLV)

Sims-Williams, Nicholas and Bi, Bo (2018) Sogdian Documents from Khotan in the Museum of Renmin University of China. Beijing: Zhongguo shehui kexue chubanshe = 中国社会科学出版社. (Da guo xue yan jiu wen ku = 大国学研究文库)

Sims-Williams, Nicholas and De Blois, Francois (2018) Studies in the chronology of the Bactrian documents from Northern Afghanistan. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. (Denkschriften der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-historische Klasse)

Sims-Williams, Nicholas (2017) An ascetic miscellany: The Christian Sogdian manuscript E28. Turnhout (Belgium): Brepols. (Berliner Turfantexte)

Sims-Williams, Nicholas (2016) A Dictionary: Christian Sogdian, Syriac and English. Wiesbaden: Reichert. (Beiträge zur Iranistik)

Sims-Williams, Nicholas (2015) The Life of St Serapion and other Christian Sogdian texts from the manuscripts E25 and E26. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols. (Berliner Turfantexte)

Sims-Williams, Nicholas and Hamilton, James (2015) Turco-Sogdian Documents from 9th–10th century Dunhuang. London: SOAS University of London. (Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum)

Sims-Williams, Nicholas (2014) Biblical and other Christian Sogdian texts from the Turfan Collection. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols. (Berliner Turfantexte)

Sims-Williams, Nicholas (2007) Bactrian documents from Northern Afghanistan, Vol. 2: Letters and Buddhist texts. London: The Nour Foundation in association with Azimuth Editions. (Studies in the Khalili Collection)

Sims-Williams, Nicholas (2004) Recent discoveries in the Bactrian language and their historical significance. Kabul: Society for the Preservation of Afghanistan's Cultural Heritage.

Sims-Williams, Nicholas (2001) Bactrian Documents from Northern Afghanistan, Vol I: Legal and Economic Documents. Oxford; New York: The Nour Foundation in association with Azimuth Editions and Oxford University Press.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Sims-Williams, Nicholas, ed. (2007) Part 4: Dictionary of Manichaean texts in Chinese. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols. (Dictionary of manichaean texts. Vol. III, Texts from Central Asia and China)

Blois, François de and Sims-Williams, Nicholas, eds. (2006) Dictionary of Manichaean texts. Vol. II, Texts from Iraq and Iran. Turnhout: Brepols.

Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond and Sims-Williams, Nicholas, eds. (2004) Dictionary of Manichaean Texts Vol. III Part 1. Turnhout: Brepols.

Elfenbein, J., MacKenzie, D. N. and Sims-Williams, Nicholas, eds. (2003) A New Etymological Vocabulary of Pashto. Wiesbaden: Reichert. (Beiträge zur Iranistik ; Bd. 23)

Yarshater, Ehsan, ed. (2002) Encyclopaedia Iranica. New York: Bibliotheca Persica Press.

Sims-Williams, Nicholas, ed. (2002) Indo-Iranian Languages and Peoples. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Diakonoff, I. M., Livshits, V. A., MacKenzie, D. N., Bader, A. N. and Sims-Williams, Nicholas, eds. (2001) Corpus inscriptionum Iranicarum. Part 2, Inscriptions of the Seleucid and Parthian periods and the Eastern Iran and Central Asia. Vol. 2, Parthian economic documents from Nisa, Texts I,. London: SOAS University of London.

Book Chapters

Sims-Williams, Nicholas (2019) 'A multilingual Manichean calendar from Turfan (U130).' In: Gulácsi, Zsuzsanna, (ed.), Language, society, and religion in the world of the Turks : Festschrift for Larry Clark at seventy-five. Turnhout (Belgium): Brepols, pp. 251-266. (Silk Road Studies, v19)

De Blois, Francois (2009) 'A Sasanian silver bowl.' In: Sundermann, Werner and Sims-Williams, Nicholas, (eds.), Exegisti monumenta. Festschrift in Honour of Nicholas Sims-Williams. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 13-16.

Sims-Williams, Nicholas (2008) 'Bactrian tallies.' In: Huber, Brigitte, Volkart, Marianne and Widmer, Paul, (eds.), Chomolangma, Demawend und Kasbek, Festschrift für Roland Bielmeier zu seinem 65. Geburtstag. Halle: International Institute for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, pp. 525-523. (Beiträge zur Zentralasienforschung)

Sims-Williams, Nicholas (2008) 'Jaḡatu.' In: Yarshater, Ehsan, (ed.), Encyclopaedia Iranica. Vol.14/4. New York: Encyclopaedia Iranica Foundation Inc., pp. 372-373.

Sims-Williams, Nicholas (2008) 'The Sasanians in the East. A Bactrian archive from northern Afghanistan.' In: Curtis, Vesta Sarkhosh and Stewart, Sarah, (eds.), The Sasanian Era. London: I.B.Tauris, pp. 88-102.

Sims-Williams, Nicholas (2008) 'The Sogdian potentialis.' In: Macuch, Maria, Maggi, Mauro and Sundermann, Werner, (eds.), Iranian languages and texts from Iran and Turan. Ronald E. Emmerick memorial volume. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 377-386. (Iranica)

Sims-Williams, Nicholas (2007) 'Bactrian letters from the Sasanian and Hephthalite periods.' In: Panaino, Antonio and Piras, Andrea, (eds.), Proceedings of the 5th Conference of the Societas Iranologica Europæa held in Ravenna, 6-11 October 2003. Milan, Italy: Mimesis, pp. 701-713.

Sims-Williams, Nicholas and de la Vaissière, Étienne (2007) 'Jabḡuya, i: Origin and early history.' In: Yarshater, Ehsan, (ed.), Encyclopaedia Iranica. Vol 14/3. New York: Encyclopaedia Iranica Foundation Inc., pp. 314-315.

Sims-Williams, Nicholas and De Blois, Francois (2006) 'The Bactrian calendar: new material and new suggestions.' In: Weber, Dieter, (ed.), Languages of Iran: past and present. Iranian studies in memoriam David Neil MacKenzie. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 185-196.

Hunter, Erica C D (2006) 'Theodore bar Koni’s Historical and Cosmogonic passages on the Manichaeans.' In: De Blois, Francois and Sims-Williams, Nicholas, (eds.), Dictionary of Manichaean Texts. Vol.II. From Iraq and Iran (Texts in Syriac, Arabic, Persian and Zoroastrian Middle Persian). Leiden: Brepols. (Corpus fontium manichaeorum. Subsidia ; 2)

Sims-Williams, Nicholas (2004) 'A Greek-Sogdian bilingual from Bulayïq.' In: La Persia e Bisanzio. Roma: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, pp. 623-31.

Sims-Williams, Nicholas (2004) 'The Parthian abstract suffix -yft.' In: Penney, J. H. W., (ed.), Indo-European Perspectives: Studies in Honour of Anna Morpurgo Davies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 539-47.

Sims-Williams, Nicholas (2004) 'Two Bactrian fragments from Yar-khoto.' In: Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond, (ed.), Turfan revisited. The first century of research into the arts and culture of the Silk Road. Berlin: Reimer, 325-32, 461.

Sims-Williams, Nicholas (2003) 'A Christian Sogdian polemic against the Manichaeans.' In: Cereti, Carlo G., Maggi, Mauro and Provasi, Elio, (eds.), Religious themes and texts of pre-Islamic Iran and Central Asia. Studies in honour of Professor Gherardo Gnoli on the occasion of his 65th birthday on 6 December 2002. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 399-408, p. 9. (Beiträge zur Iranistik ; 24)

Sims-Williams, Nicholas (2003) 'Contrat de mariage bactrien.' In: Bopearachchi, Osmund, Landes, Christian and Sachs, Christine, (eds.), De l’Indus à l’Oxus. Archéologie de l’Asie Centrale. Lattes: Association IMAGO-Musee de Lattes, 390-391, 393.

Sims-Williams, Nicholas (2003) 'Three notes on Iranian words in Arabic sources.' In: van Tongerloo, Aloïs, (ed.), Iranica Selecta. Studies in honour of Professor Wojciech Skalmowski on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 213-217. (Silk Road studies)

Sims-Williams, Nicholas (2002) 'Ancient Afghanistan and its invaders: Linguistic evidence from the Bactrian documents and inscriptions.' In: Sims-Williams, Nicholas, (ed.), Indo-Iranian Languages and Peoples. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 225-242.

Sims-Williams, Nicholas (2001) 'Avestan sußra-, Turkish süvre.' In: Bazin, L. and Zieme, Peter, (eds.), De Dunhuang à Istanbul. Hommage à James Russell Hamilton. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 329-338.

Sims-Williams, Nicholas (2001) 'Middle Persian padisay and Old Persian vasna.' In: Sadeghi, Ali Ashraf, (ed.), Yādnāmah-ʼi Duktur Aḥmad Tafaz̤z̤ulī = Tafazzoli memorial volume. Tehran: Sokhan Publishers, pp. 59-65.

Sims-Williams, Nicholas (2001) 'Sogdian Ancient Letter II.' In: Juliano, Annette L. and Lerner, Judith A., (eds.), Monks and merchants: Silk Road Treasures from Northwest China. New York: Harry N. Abrams with The Asia Society, pp. 47-49.

Sims-Williams, Nicholas (2001) 'The Sogdian Ancient Letter II.' In: Schmidt, Maria Gabriela and Bisang, Walter, (eds.), Philologica et Linguistica. Historia, Pluralitas, Universitas. Festschrift für Helmut Humbach zum 80. Geburtstag am 4. Dezember 2001. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, pp. 267-280.

Sims-Williams, Nicholas (2000) 'Aurentes.' In: Emmerick, Ronald E., Sundermann, Werner and Zieme, Peter, (eds.), Studia Manichaica. IV. Internationaler Kongreß zum Manichäismus, Berlin, 14.-18. Juli 1997 (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berichte und Abhandlungen, Sonderband). Berlin: Akademie Verlag, pp. 560-563.

Sims-Williams, Nicholas (2000) 'A Bactrian Buddhist manuscript.' In: Braarvig, Jens, (ed.), Manuscripts in the Schøyen collection, I: Buddhist manuscripts. Oslo: Hermes Publishing, pp. 275-7.

Sims-Williams, Nicholas (2000) 'Some reflections on Zoroastrianism in Sogdiana and Bactria.' In: Christian, D. and Benjamin, C., (eds.), Realms of the Silk roads: ancient and modern : proceedings from the third Conference of the Australasian society for Inner Asian studies (A.S.I.A.S.), Macquarie university, September 18-20, 1998. Belgium: Brepols, pp. 1-12.

Sims-Williams, Nicholas (1997) 'The denominal suffix -ant- and the formation of the Khotanese transitive perfect.' In: Lubotsky, Alexander, (ed.), Sound law and analogy. Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 317-325.

Journal Article

Sims-Williams, Nicholas (2023) 'Metrical passages in the Khotanese Saṃghāṭa-sūtra.' Indo-Iranian Journal, 66 (2). pp. 97-126.

Sims-Williams, Nicholas (2017) 'Two Iranian loanwords in Syriac.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 80 (3). pp. 485-490.

Sims-Williams, Nicholas, Bi, Bo and Yan, Yan (2017) 'Another Sogdian-Chinese bilingual epitaph.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 80 (2). pp. 305-318.

Sims-Williams, Nicholas (2017) 'Two words in the Sogdian version of the Antirrheticus of Evagrius Ponticus.' Dabir, 1 (4). pp. 36-39.

Sims-Williams, Nicholas (2008) 'Remarks on the Bactrian colophon. [Appendix to S. Karashima, “Fragments of a manuscript of the Prātimokṣasūtra of the Mahāsāṃghika-(Lokottara)vādins (1)”].' Annual Report of the International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University, 11. pp. 89-90.

Sims-Williams, Nicholas (2007) 'A Bactrian quarrel.' Bulletin of the Asia Institute [n.s.], 17. pp. 9-15.

Sims-Williams, Nicholas (2007) 'News from Ancient Afghanistan.' The Silk Road, 4 (2). pp. 5-10.

Sims-Williams, Nicholas and Grenet, Frantz (2007) 'The Sogdian inscriptions of Kultobe.' Shygys = Восток = Orient : Kazakhstan, 2006 (1). pp. 95-111.

Sims-Williams, Nicholas and Lee, Jonathan (2003) 'The antiquities and inscription of Tang-i Safedak.' Silk Road Art and Archaeology, 9. pp. 159-184.

Sims-Williams, Nicholas (2002) 'Nouveaux documents bactriens du Guzgan. [New Bactrian Documents from Guzgan].' Comptes rendus de l'Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 2002. pp. 1047-58.

Sims-Williams, Nicholas (2002) 'The Bactrian inscription on the seal of Khingila.' Silk Road Art and Archaeology, 8. pp. 143-148.

Sims-Williams, Nicholas (2002) 'Dr Ilya Gershevitch.' Jesus College, Cambridge, Annual Report, vol. 9. pp. 31-34.

Sims-Williams, Nicholas (2002) 'On kings and nomads: New documents in ancient Bactrian reveal Afghanistan's past.' Newsletter of the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), 27. pp. 12-13.

Sims-Williams, Nicholas, Grenet, Frantz and de la Vaissière, Étienne (2001) 'The Sogdian Ancient Letter V.' Bulletin of the Asia Institute, 12. pp. 91-104.

Sims-Williams, Nicholas (2001) 'The inscriptions on the Miho bowl and some comparable objects.' Studia Iranica, 30 (2). pp. 187-198.

Sims-Williams, Nicholas (2000) 'Four Bactrian economic documents.' Bulletin of the Asia Institute, 11. pp. 3-15.

Sims-Williams, Nicholas (2000) 'Gods and Merchants: Sogdian inscriptions of the Upper Indus.' TAASA Review, The Journal of the Asian Arts Society of Australia, 9 (3). pp. 14-17.

Sims-Williams, Nicholas (2000) 'The Iranian inscriptions of Shatial.' Indologica Taurinensia: Professor Gregory M. Bongard-Levin Felicitation Volume. I, 23-24. pp. 523-541.

De Blois, Francois and Sims-Williams, Nicholas (1998) 'The Bactrian calendar.' Bulletin of the Asia Institute. New series (10). pp. 149-165.

Sims-Williams, Nicholas (1996) 'On the historic present and injunctive in Sogdian and Choresmian.' Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft, 56. pp. 173-189.

Sims-Williams, Nicholas and Cribb, J (1996) 'A new Bactrian inscription of Kanishka the Great.' Silk Road Art and Archaeology, 4. pp. 75-142.

Conference or Workshop Items

Sims-Williams, Nicholas (2004) Les sogdiens en chine - Towards a new edition of the Sogdian Ancient Letters. In: UNSPECIFIED. (Unpublished)

Compositions

Sims-Williams, Nicholas (2002) In memoriam, for violin, viola and cello. [Compositions]

Other

Sims-Williams, Nicholas (1997) 'New light on ancient Afghanistan: the decipherment of Bactrian.' London: SOAS University of London.