Giorgi Sosiashvili is an academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Georgia, Member of Parliament of Georgia and an invited professor at Iv. At Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, a board member at the National Committee for the History of the National Academy of Sciences of Georgia and the scientific committee for the study of the Georgian villages of the Patriarchate of Georgia, the Chairman of the Permanent Conference of Rectors of Regional Universities of Georgia. Research fields: Issues of historical geography of Shida Kartli; Distinguished noble families of Georgia; Russia’s colonial policy in the Caucasus; Principalities of Kartli; European travelers in Georgia; Georgian-Ossetian relations. His works have been translated and published in: English, Russian, Turkish, German, Polish, Azerbaijani, Ossetian and Armenian languages. Email: giorgisosiashvili@gmail.com ORCID:0000-0002-2406-8662 

I am working for the Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University as an Academic
Researcher and Lecturer since 2006. In 2014 defended my Doctorate thesis at the
KTU Manas.
The main subjects that I teach at the University are History of Islam, Islamic
Culture and the First Muslim Turkic States, Numismatics, Epigraphy and
Paleography of Central Asia.
I am an co-author of the book “Monuments of inscriptions on the stone of
Kyrgyzstan. - Bishkek, 2008” and author of number of articles on the topics such
as Islamization of Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia in the Middle Ages and Islamic
inscriptions.