Sima Avazpour
Primary Area: World Religions and World Church
Biography
Sima Avazpour is a graduate student in Theology with a strong interdisciplinary background in linguistics, Quranic studies, and Iranian languages. She is experienced in academic research, phonological analysis, language instruction, and scholarly translation and editing, and fluent in multiple research languages with published academic work.
Research Interests
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Quranic studies
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Islamic theology and mysticism
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Scripture studies
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Iranian Languages and Dialectology
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Historical and General Linguistics
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Contact between the Semitic and Indo-Iranian languages
Representative Publications
"Pausal Phonology in the Qur'an” in Language Related Research 11, no. 6 (2021), 137-166.) [in Persian]
“Pausal Processes of the Qur’an in Optimality Phonology” in Linguistics & Khorasan Dialects 12, no 23 (2021), 127-51.) [In Persian]
“Vowel /ɔ/ in Katuli dialect” in Iranian Languages and Dialects, new volume, no 7 (2017), 145-65. ) [In Persian]
Education
- Ph.D. in Linguistics, Tehran University, Iran
Dissertation: Pausal Phonology of the Qurʾān: An Analysis within Optimality Theory and Structural Phonology - M.A. in Linguistics, Tehran University, Iran
Thesis: The Vowel System of Katuli (a Northern Iranian Dialect of Mazani, Descended from Pahlavi Persian) - B.A. in English Literature, Mashhad, Iran