This volume is a collection of forty articles dedicated to one of the most distinguished contemporary iranists, Nicholas Sims-Williams, on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday on 11 April 2009.

It includes an essay on Sims-Williams’ outstanding contributions to Iranian studies, especially Sogdian and Bactrian, a list of his publications, editions of various texts written in Sogdian, Khotanese, Parthian, Middle Persian, and Avestan and articles on Old Persian, Middle Persian, New Persian, Bactrian, Balochi, Tati, Judeo-Persian, Caucasian, Uighur philology, linguistics and iconography.  The book is illustrated by numerous plates.

It will be of interest to linguists, philologists and historians of Iran and Central Asia.

(Iranica, volume 17)

Werner Sundermann/Almut Hintze/François de Blois (eds.):
Exegisti monumenta. Festschrift in Honour of Nicholas Sims-Williams.

2009

XXXVIII, 596 pp.

ISBN13: 978-3-447-05937-4

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