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Folia Orientalia (FOr) is an international multi- and interdisciplinary journal published annually by the Commission of Oriental Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Kraków Branch). It represents a broad range of Oriental Studies, especially linguistic, literary, historical, archaeological, cultural, religious and art history issues, mainly from the Near and Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia and Africa.

The peer-reviewed journal Folia Orientalia was founded in 1959 by Tadeusz Lewicki, an eminent Polish Arabist, who noticed the desirability of creating a new yearbook with a broad spectrum of studies devoted to cultures and civilisations of Asia and Africa. Lewicki served as chairman of the editorial board (1959–1968, 1971–1976) and as editor (1980–1986). Earlier, in the years 1959–1979, the post of editor was held by Franciszek Machalski, Iranologist. Subsequent editors were Stanisław Stachowski, Turkologist (1987–2002), Andrzej Zaborski, Arabist and specialist in comparative linguistics of Semitic-African languages (2003–2014), and Tomasz Polański, an archaeologist and philologist, specialist in Hellenistic studies (2015–2021). Since 2022, the position of editor has been held jointly by Maciej Klimiuk (Free University of Berlin, Heidelberg University) and Arkadiusz Płonka (Jagiellonian University in Kraków).

We invite you to submit articles, review articles and book reviews that fit within the aims and scope of our journal. Each article is subject to rigorous double-blind peer review. From 2022 onwards, we accept articles in English, French or German.

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ISSN 0015-5675
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Commission of Oriental Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences – Kraków Branch
Folia Orientalia (FOr) is an international multi- and interdisciplinary journal published annually by the Commission of Oriental Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Kraków Branch) which aims to publish high quality writing relevant to the Near and Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia and Africa. The journal was founded in 1959 and it spans all periods, from ancient times to the present, of the cultures and civilisations of the areas studied. Major disciplines include linguistics and comparative linguistics (including Semitic, Afroasiatic, African, Iranian, Turkish, Indian etc.), literary studies, history, religion and cultural studies, art and archaeology.

The journal is aimed at both established and new researchers, who are encouraged to present innovative research, including that based on fieldwork. In principle, there are no restrictions on the length of articles. All contributions are accessible via Open Access.

Folia Orientalia publishes original research articles, review articles and book reviews in English, French or German.

Editor-in-chief

Arkadiusz Płonka (Jagiellonian University, Poland), ORCID: 0000-0002-5403-3364


Deputy Editor-in-chief

Maciej Klimiuk (Free University of Berlin, Heidelberg University, Germany), ORCID: 0000-0003-4936-350X


Secretary

Tomasz Babnis (Jagiellonian University, Poland), ORCID: 0000-0001-5869-0145


Editorial Board

Sergio Baldi (University of Naples 'L’Orientale', Italy), ORCID: 0000-0003-4099-1497

Livnat Holtzman (Bar-Ilan University, Israel), ORCID: 0000-0003-4349-3610

Anna Krasnowolska (Jagiellonian University, Poland), ORCID: 0000-0001-8777-6503

Bettina Leitner (University of Vienna, Austria), ORCID 0000-0001-6712-302X

Ewa Siemieniec-Gołaś (Jagiellonian University, Poland), ORCID: 0000-0003-2454-7409

Lidia Sudyka (Jagiellonian University, Poland), ORCID: 0000-0002-7014-8241

Joachim Śliwa (Jagiellonian University, Poland), ORCID: 0000-0002-8304-7343


International Advisory Board

Arshin Adib-Moghaddam (SOAS University of London, United Kingdom), ORCID 0000-0003-4880-1993

Werner Arnold (Heidelberg University, Center for Jewish Studies Heidelberg, Germany), ORCID: 0000-0002-2423-5141

Fida Bizri (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, CNRS, France), ORCID 0000-0001-7055-0890

Emanuela de Blasio (Tuscia University, Viterbo, Italy), ORCID: 0000-0003-3789-352X

Michael Knüppel (Liaocheng University, China), ORCID 0000-0002-6348-5100

Mena B. Lafkioui (Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, CNRS, France), ORCID 0000-0002-1016-4071

Karin Preisendanz (University of Vienna, Austria)

Stephan Procházka (University of Vienna, Austria), ORCID: 0000-0001-9421-1404

Franck Salameh (Boston College, United States)

Ori Shachmon (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel), ORCID 0000-0002-0885-2545

Juan-Pablo Vita (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain)

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Folia Orientalia | 2017 | vol. LIV

1 Contens
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2 List of Contributors
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3 Notes of Contributors
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4 Against binarism, simplicity, neatness and stasis. A theoretical prolegomenon to the reality of verbal grams in Biblical Hebrew: From the complexity of semantic maps to the uncomplicatedness of psychological conceptualizations
Alexander Andrason
Folia Orientalia | 2017 | vol. LIV
Keywords: Biblical Hebrew verbal system TAM semantic maps modeling cognition
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Developed within the frame of cognitive linguistics and cognitive science, the present paper argues that the wave-stream model is a more adequate manner of representing verbal grams in Biblical Hebrew than neat models built on discrete, binary and static categories. Taking as examples two Biblical Hebrew verbal grams (WAYYIQTOL and QATAL) and building on the empirical evidence concerning the senses conveyed by these two forms in the book of Genesis, the author demonstrates the following: a) Neat, binary, discrete and static models correspond to “folk” representations of reality; b) A more adequate representation, which preserves the complex nature of language and its components, is provided by the wave-stream model; c) The wave-stream model additionally suggests the psychological reality of the grams or their conceptualizations by speakers. As a result, the wave-stream model has both etic (language centric) and emic (psychological or human centric) dimensions, the latter being derived in a principled manner.
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Alexander Andrason
5 Arabic loans in some Nilotic-Saharan languages
Sergio Baldi
Folia Orientalia | 2017 | vol. LIV
Keywords: Nilotic-Saharan languages Swahili Arabic loans Bantu languages
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Most of the people of coastal East Africa were ancestors of the modern Swahili. The occurrence of Swahili loans in unrelated neighbouring languages is quite frequent. The influence of Arabic loans, mainly via Swahili, was not confined to East Africa, or to Nilotic and Bantu languages (particularly Mijikenda and Pokomo), but also to Central African languages like Kikongo, Lingala up to the Sango. This is clear because Islam penetrated mainly and exclusively through Swahili speaking people and not directly from Arabic, so all the words dealing with the new religion, and which so abundantly arrived in West African languages, were not necessarily lent. In this paper, a research in progress is presented. It started one year ago by collecting Arabic loans in languages spoken in East and Central Africa. The main object of investigation is to organise a data base similar to what done for West Africa, using the same methodology. Up to now a few dictionaries and other sources on these languages have been consulted: Acholi, Ankole, Anywa, Ateso, Bari, Bemba, Bende, Dholuo, Kikamba, Kikongo, Kikuyu, Kiluba, Kiw’oso, Kuria, Lega, Lingala, Lomongo, Lotuxo, Luena, Luganda, Lunyankole, Lunyoro, Macua, Madi, Matengo, Ngombe, Pokomo, Pokot, Rendille, Shona, Swahili, Xhosa and Zande, but this article is dealing with Nilo-Saharan languages only.
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Sergio Baldi
6 Quelques observations sur la typologie du «Néo-arabe»: système des catégories grammaticales
Anna Belova
Folia Orientalia | 2017 | vol. LIV
Keywords: type grammatical synthétique / analytique structure grammaticale système des categories paradigme complet paradigme réduit reduction innovation
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Actuellement la linguistique arabe met en usage le terme et la notion du type “néo-arabe” afin que definer les changements structureles communs aux dialectes arabes modernes. L’analyse contrastif des categories grammaticales et de leurs paradigms montre qu’il n’est pas facile de construir un modèle commun au “Néo-arabe”. Il ne s’agit que d’une tendance commune des reductions et des innovations.
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Anna Belova
7 Omotic numerals. Dedicated to the memory of Andrzej Zaborski (1942–2014)
Václav Blažek
Folia Orientalia | 2017 | vol. LIV
Keywords: Cushitic Omotic Ethio-Semitic Afroasiatic Nilo-Saharan etymology borrowing
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More than 30 years ago Andrzej Zaborski (1983; 1987 {1983}) collected and analyzed all Cushitic and Omotic numerals, which were described in his time, and tried to analyze their internal structure. His two pioneering studies stimulated the present attempt to collect all available relevant data about Omotic numerals and to analyze them in both genetic (Afroasiatic) and areal (Cushitic, Ethio-Semitic and Nilo-Saharan) perspectives, all at the contemporary level of our knowledge. With respect to the long mutual interference between various groups of Cushitic and Omotic languages, it is necessary to study the numerals in both the language families together. The presented material is organized in agreement with the genetic classification of these languages. On the basis of concrete forms in individual languages the protoforms in partial groups are reconstructed, if it is possible, and these partial protoforms of numerals in the daughter protolanguages are finally compared to determine the inherited forms. The common cognates are finally compared with parallels in other Afroasiatic branches, if exist, or with counterparts in Ethio-Semitic or Nilo-Saharan languages, if they could be borrowed from or adapted into the Cushitic or Omotic languages.
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Václav Blažek
8 Σχοῖνος Revisited – LXX Micah 6:5
Vasile A. Condrea
Folia Orientalia | 2017 | vol. LIV
Keywords: Σαττιν השטים Shittim Micah 6 burning bush
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Building on the argument of an earlier contribution of James K. Aitken (2000), this article aims to explain why the Greek toponym Σαττιν does not translate the word הַ שּׁ טּים (Shittim) in LXX Micah 6:5. The Massoretic text reads ‘from Shittim to Gilgal’. The LXX translator uses σχοῖνος to appeal to all readerships. While the educated reader is aware of the location and significance of Shittim, these might not be obvious for the less educated majority. As the meaning of σχοῖνος varies (rush, reed, bramble, thorn, and a type of measure used in Egypt, or even a more generic bush), its interpretation changes as one contemplates in context each of these meanings. Ultimately, the simplest audience could read this extension of time/space of ἀπὸ τῶν σχοίνων ἕως τοῦ Γαλγαλ as referring to the whole history of Exodus, from the burning bush to Gilgal.
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Vasile A. Condrea
9 Agreement with plural controllers in Fezzānī Arabic
D’Anna Luca
Folia Orientalia | 2017 | vol. LIV
Keywords: Libyan dialects agreement Arabic linguistics Arabic dialectology Fezzan
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The present paper investigates agreement patterns with plural controllers in Fezzani Arabic (southwestern Libya). During the last three decades, research has proved that the agreement system found in Classical Arabic is the result of a process of standardization, while agreement in the dialects feature the same type of variation observed in pre-Islamic poetry and the Qur’an. Nonhuman plural controllers, in particular, strictly require feminine singular agreement in Classical Arabic, while feminine singular alternates with feminine plural agreement in the pre-Islamic texts and the Qur’an. Most contemporary dialects exhibit a great range of variation in this field. Fezzani Arabic largely favors plural (syntactic) agreement with plural controllers. Syntactic agreement is systematic with human controllers and it represents the most frequent choice also with nonhuman ones. The main factor triggering feminine singular agreement is not humanness, bu t individuation. Within this conservative syntactic behavior, finally, masculine plural seems to be eroding feminine plural agreement with both feminine human and nonhuman controllers, for sociolinguistic reasons that still need to be investigated.
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D’Anna Luca
10 Remarques sur le consonantisme de l’arabe
Olivier Durand
Folia Orientalia | 2017 | vol. LIV
Keywords: Arabic language Diachronic Semitic linguistics Hamito-Semitic Comparative linguistics Spirantization Emphatic phonemes
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This article offers a survey of Arabic consonantism, compared with other Semitic and Hamito-Semitic languages, mainly Berber. Particular attention has been given to the phenomenon of spirantization of stops and to the origin of «emphatic» phonemes.
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Olivier Durand
11 The Etymology of Generosity-Related Terms A Presentation of the EtymArab© Project – Part III
Stephan Guth
Folia Orientalia | 2017 | vol. LIV
Keywords: Etymology of Arabic Generosity EtymArab© project
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This article is a presentation of the EtymArab© project, a start-up (“zero”) version of an etymological dictionary of Modern Standard Arabic. Taking the etymology of some generosity-related lexical items as examples, the study introduces the reader to the guiding ideas behind the project and the online dictionary’s basic features.
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Stephan Guth
12 Briefe Johann Reinhold Aspelins an Richard Andree aus den Jahren 1890–1892
Michael Knüppel
Folia Orientalia | 2017 | vol. LIV
Keywords: Johann Reinhold Aspelin (1842–1915) Richard Andree (1835–1912) scientific correspondence “pre-history” of Old Turkic studies Orkhon- and Yenissei-inscriptions
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In his article on the one hand the author gives an edition of three letters of the pioneer of archaeology in Finland, J.R. Aspelin (1842–1915), to the ethnographer and editor of the journal Globus, Richard Andree (1835–1912), form the years 1890–1892, and on the other hand describes the role of Aspelin in the history of the “pre-history” of Old Turkic studies.
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Michael Knüppel
13 Le citadin Lamech, l’ancêtre oublié de notre culture
del Olmo Lete Grigorio
Folia Orientalia | 2017 | vol. LIV
Keywords: Bible Genèse Lamech la littérature apocryphe judéo-chrétienne moderne réélaboration littéraire
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Malgré sa valeur symbolique, il est étonnant de constater la totale absence du personnage biblique de Lamech et de ses péripéties dans toute la création littéraire de notre culture judéo-chrétienne; à l’inverse de ce qu’on remarque à propos de son aïeul Caïn, dont la tradition biblique a inspiré de nombreuses oeuvres. Seule la littérature apocryphe judéochrétienne a su développer la dimension symbolique de ce personnage. Nous voulons attirer l’attention sur les principaux traits de cette figure biblique, placée à l’aube de la violence développée de nos jours par ses contemporains ‘Enfants de Lamech’, traits qui attendent toujours leur moderne réélaboration littéraire: libération sexuelle, progrès technique, violence incontrôlée.
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del Olmo Lete Grigorio
14 Dangla historical tonology
Peust Carsten
Folia Orientalia | 2017 | vol. LIV
Keywords: East Dangla West Dangla tone system tonal inversions tone system of Proto-Dangla
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East Dangla and West Dangla, two dialects of the Dangla language which belongs to the Chadic language family, differ substantially in their tone systems. In numerous lexical items, entire or partial tonal inversions are observable. Earlier research has not succeeded in boiling this down to regular sound correspondences. In the meantime, data from Central Dangla as a third dialect have become available, which provide important insights into the matter. Based on all available materials, a new attempt to establish the tonal correspondences is undertaken here. This results in a reconstruction of the tone system of Proto-Dangla, the hypothetical ancestor of the modern varieties, together with a chronological elaboration of the tonal changes that occurred in the individual dialects.
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Peust Carsten
15 La construction d’une idée grammaticale sawfa et sa- entre fait grammaticalet fait linguistique dans la grammaire arabe médiévale
Manuel Sartori
Folia Orientalia | 2017 | vol. LIV
Keywords: affinité élective Baṣra Derenbourg fait grammatical fait linguistique futur lointain futur proche Ibn al-ʾAnbārī Ibn al-Sarrāǧ Ibn Ǧinnī Kitāb Kūfa logique grecque Luma muʿtazilisme sa- sawfa Zamaḫšarī
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Cet article propose de considérer le processus de construction d’une idée grammaticale en se penchant sur la distinction généralement opérée entre les deux opérateurs du futur en arabe, sa- et sawfa dans le sens futur proche vs. futur lointain. Si, comme cet article le rappelle, cette distinction est linguistiquement contestée, il montre qu’elle est aussi contestable d’un point de vue grammatical, et ce même si un grand nombre de grammairiens arabes médiévaux de haute stature la relaient. Cet article se propose donc d’en retracer l’origine probable et, incidemment, revient sur l’édition du Kitāb de Sībawayhi faite par Hartwig Derenbourg qui aurait pu être perçue, en le cas d’espèce, comme l’une des origines probables de cette distinction. L’article propose alors de replacer celle-ci dans son contexte intellectuel: une affinité élective faisant se rejoindre des principes grammaticaux et ceux du courant rationaliste du muʿtazilisme ainsi que l’irruption de la logique grecque dans les études arabes seraient au berceau de cette antienne grammaticale.
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Manuel Sartori
16 Grammaticalization and Degrammaticalization in an Arabic Existential Particle šay
David Wilmsen
Folia Orientalia | 2017 | vol. LIV
Keywords: degrammaticalization existential predications indefinite quantifiers grammaticalization Maltese Mediterranean Arabic Modern South Arabian partitives southern peninsular Arabic
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Against the usual assumption that Arabic grammatical operators based on reflexes of šay derive from the Arabic word for ‘thing’ šayʔ, it is argued here that indefinite quantifiers and partitives instead derive from an existential particle šay that is present in some spoken Arabic dialects of the Arabian Gulf, Om an, and the Yemen. The ambiguity of the existential particle in constructions in which it sets off items in a series lends itself to its reanalysis as a quantifier, and its ambiguity as a quantifier motivates its reanalysis as a partitive. This is consistent with grammaticalization theory, whereby lexical forms give rise to grammatical forms, which themselves give rise to even more grammatical forms. Yet, existential šay likely did not arise from a lexical form. Instead, it is either a borrowing from Modern South Arabian or it is an inherited Semitic feature, ultimately deriving from an attention-focusing demonstrative. Either way, the grammaticalization of a quantitative šī/šē/šay cannot have proceeded directly from word ‘thing’. To the contrary, the word šayʔ meaning ‘thing’ can easily derive from an indefinite quantifier or partitive šay, in a process of degrammaticalization.
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David Wilmsen
17 Giorgio Maria Ciaceri en Afrique du Nord. Les voyages d’un Jésuite sicilien à la moitié du XIXe siècle
Giuliano Mion
Folia Orientalia | 2017 | vol. LIV
Keywords: Algeria Tunisia Jesuit Missions Travelogues Arabic language Arabic dialetcs Lingua Franca
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Giorgio Maria Ciaceri was a Jesuit missionary from Sicily who spent about ten years in North Africa during the mid Nineteenth century. From his Jesuit center located near Algiers, he travelled all over Algeria and arrived until Tunis where he spent the last period of his journey. His travelogue, published in 1885–86, is almost unknown to scholarly research and is a very rich source for anthropological, ethnographical, historical, social, religious and linguistic information about the countries and the cultures he visited. The present article deals with his travelogue and attempts to draw the attention to some aspects of his work and in particular to the linguistic issues that it contains.
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Giuliano Mion
18 Notes and Documents: Zu neu-pers. – گل اشك Fritillaria imperialis ~ F. kurdica ~ F. persica
Michael Knüppel
Folia Orientalia | 2017 | vol. LIV
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Michael Knüppel
19 Review Articles: Martini Gianluigi. 2016. Dizionario swahili-italiano italiano-swahili. Milano: Hoepli, 854 p., ISBN 978-88-203-6318-5
Sergio Baldi
Folia Orientalia | 2017 | vol. LIV
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Sergio Baldi
20 Review Articles: Zygmunt Frajzyngier & Paul Eguchi & Roger Prafé & MeganSchwabauer, Dictionary of Hdi. A Central Chadic Language of Cameroon, Köln: Köppe 2015, viii+188 pages, ISBN 978-3-89645-299-3
Peust Carsten
Folia Orientalia | 2017 | vol. LIV
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Peust Carsten
21 Review Articles: Between Mycenae and Hattushas: The Emergence of the Luvian Civilisation, Eberhard Zangger, Die Luwische Kultur. Das fehlende Element in der Ägäischen Bronzezeit, Ege Yainllari Istanbul, 2017, ISBN 978-605-9680-21-9, 330
T. Polański
Folia Orientalia | 2017 | vol. LIV
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T. Polański
22 Review Articles: A First Look at O.V. Stolbova’s „Chadic Etymological Dictionary” (2014)
Gábor Takács
Folia Orientalia | 2017 | vol. LIV
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Gábor Takács
23 Review Articles: Pount, Cahiers d’études. Corne de l’Afrique – Arabie du Sud, 2012, Numéro 6, Études éthiopienne et yéménites, eds. F. Mermier, D. Morin, A. Rouaud, Les Éthipisants Associés, ISBN: 978-2-9524-9647-6, s. 211.
Tomasz Polański
Folia Orientalia | 2017 | vol. LIV
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Tomasz Polański
24 Books Received
Folia Orientalia | 2017 | vol. LIV
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25 List of Lectures at the Meetings of the Orientalist Commission of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Kraków (2016/2017)
Folia Orientalia | 2017 | vol. LIV
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The deadline for submitting an article for publication in a volume in a given year is 31 May.
If you miss this deadline, please contact the editors. The deadline for submitting a review article and book review is 31 July.
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Behnstedt (1994a, 1994b)
Behnstedt (1994a: 102, 1994b: 134)
Behnstedt (1994a: 102, 134, 148–49)
(Behnstedt 1994a: 102, 134, 148–49; Woidich 1996: 72, 1998: 34)
Serracino-Inglott (1975–2003: vol. 1)
Serracino-Inglott (1975: 1, 123–124)


Transcription/transliteration

Authors may use a recognised scientific transcription/transliteration system that suits their purposes. They must explain any non-standard or unusual elements in the text or footnote.

Transcription/transliteration must be used for all languages written in non-Latin script. In addition to the writing of any words in non-Latin alphabets, a transcription must mandatorily appear. Longer paragraphs may only be given in alphabets other than Latin when scientifically and methodologically justified.


Illustrations

Any illustrations used in articles must either be copyrighted by their respective authors or permission must be given to the editorial office for their use.


Publication Ethics Policy


Publication Ethics Policy and Malpractice Statement

The Editors of Folia Orientalia will do their best to counteract bad practices in scholarly writing, making all possible efforts to disclose cases of academic dishonesty concerning fraud authorship, plagiarism, disclosure and conflict of interest, as well as ghostwriting and guest authorship.

The articles where research misconduct has occurred will also be disclosed. Such cases, if documented, will be passed on to the authors’ authorities as well as scientific societies and publishers. Authors are therefore asked to provide necessary details of contributions made to their articles, as well as inform the editors of sources of the publication’s financing (if applicable).

Any work or words of other authors, contributors or sources should be appropriately credited and referenced. All articles not in accordance with these standards will be removed from the publication if malpractice is discovered at any time even after the publication.

Authors submitting the manuscripts to the journal for publication as original articles confirm that their works represent authors’ contributions and have not been copied or plagiarised in whole or in part from other publications without clear citing.

If an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in their own published work, it is their obligation to promptly notify the journal editor and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the article. The editorial board is always willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed.

The editorial board ensures a fair double-blind peer-review of the submitted manuscripts. It also ensures all the information related to the submitted manuscripts to be kept as confidential prior to publishing. The reviewers evaluate manuscripts based on their intellectual content regardless of ethnic origin, gender, sexual
orientation, citizenship, religious beliefs or political philosophy of the authors. They must ensure that all the information related to submitted manuscripts is kept confidential and must report to one of the editors if they are aware of copyright infringement and plagiarism on the author’s side. They must evaluate the submitted works objectively as well as present their opinions in a clear way in the review form. The editorial board has implemented an anti-plagiarism policy. If a reviewer suspects plagiarism, the article will be verified using a plagiarism detection programme.


The journal’s editorial board follows the guidelines of COPE: Committee of Publication Ethics. All persons involved in the publication process must be familiar with the ethical standards of Folia Orientalia.

Peer-review Procedure

Review Process and Reviewers

Peer Review Process

Articles sent to the editorial team of Folia Orientalia journal are first subjected to internal review by the editors-in-chief and the academic secretary. After the primary qualification, the texts are sent to external reviewers (double-blind review). Each article is reviewed by two reviewers specialising in each subject. Texts are sent for review anonymously: the identity of the reviewed author will not be disclosed to reviewers, nor vice versa. The review must contain an explicit conclusion stating whether the article should or should not be accepted for publication.

Papers that have received an approval of both reviewers are qualified for publication. As a result of the review process, authors may be expected to modify their articles according to the recommendations of the reviewers. The editorial board retains a right to publish, to reject or to return an article for modifications. In the event of an ambivalent publishing review, the text is submitted for another evaluation. Articles on which two negative opinions have been passed will not be accepted for publication. The authors of negatively assessed texts will be notified as soon as the reviews reach the editors.

Review form [download .docx, .pdf]

Reviewers The list of reviewers for the given issue is available on the journal’s website.

Reviewers

List of Reviewers

Folia Orientalia 61 (2024)
Ohad Abudraham (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)
Khaled Amrani (L’Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS-UMR 5194, France)
Piotr Bachtin (Heidelberg University, Germany, University of Warsaw, Poland)
Assaf Bar Moshe (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
Aze-Eddine Bouchikhi (Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, Doha, Qatar)
Letizia Cerqueglini (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)
Bernard Christophe (independent researcher)
Luca D’Anna (University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’, Italy)
James Nathan Ford (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
Felipe Benjamin Francisco (independent researcher)
Yulia Furman (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
George Grigore (University of Bucharest, Romania)
Jairo Guerrero Parrado (Aix-Marseille Université, France)
Mateusz Kłagisz (Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland)
Nikita Kuzin (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
Zella Lakhdar (University of Blida, Algeria)
Amelia Macioszek (University of Wrocław, Poland)
Kamal Nait Zerad (INALCO, France)
Gana Ndiaye (Yale University, USA)
Ulrike-Rebekka Nieten (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
Monika Nowakowska (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Ouahmi Ould-Braham (L’Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis, France)
Marek Stachowski (Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland)
Małgorzata Sulich-Cowley (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Shabo Talay (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
Kees Versteegh (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands)
Nadia Vidro (University College London, United Kingdom)
Rainer M. Voigt (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
Janet C.E. Watson (University of Leeds, United Kingdom)

Folia Orientalia 60 (2023)

Hussam Almujalli (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia)
Khaled Amrani (Grenoble Alpes University, France)
Andrei Avram (University of Bucharest, Romania)
Alessandro Bausi (Hamburg University, Germany)
Alex Bellem (The Aga Khan University, United Kingdom)
Luca D’Anna (University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’, Italy)
Felipe Benjamin Francisco (Free University of Berlin, Germany)
Aharon Geva Kleinberger (University of Haifa, Israel)
Wiktor Gębski (Cambridge University, United Kingdom)
Valerie J. Hoffman (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States)
Mateusz Kłagisz (Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland)
Malhar A. Kulkarni (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)
Zella Lakhdar (University of Blida, Algeria)
Amelia Macioszek (University of Gdańsk, Poland)
Eiman Mustafawi (Qatar University, Qatar)
Ludwig Paul (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Nina Pawlak (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Tiziana Pontillo (University of Cagliari, Italy)
Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (University of Vienna, Austria)
Judith Rosenhouse (Technion. Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
Gianluca Saitta (University of Palermo, Italy)
Thomas Schneider (The University of British Columbia, Canada)
Marek Stachowski (Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland)
Peter Stein (University of Jena, University of Erfurt, Germany)
Lloyd Strickland (Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom)
Yannick Wiechmann (University of Bonn, Germany)

Folia Orientalia 59 (2022)

Arshin Adib-Moghaddam (SOAS University of London)
Piotr Balcerowicz (University of Warsaw)
Assaf Bar Moshe (Free University of Berlin)
Thomas Barfield (Boston University)
Basilius Bawardi (Bar-Ilan University)
Letizia Cerqueglini (Tel Aviv University)
Adrian Heinrich (University of Jena)
Roni Henkin-Roitfarb (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Bernard Hourcade (French National Centre for Scientific Research)
Azadeh Kian (University of Paris 7-Paris-Diderot, French National Centre for Scientific Research)
Bettina Leitner (University of Vienna)
Maria Lipnicka (Heidelberg University)
Michał Moch (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
Marijn van Puten (Leiden University)
Monica M. Ringer (Amherst College)
Marcin Rzepka (Jagiellonian University)
Małgorzata Sandowicz (University of Warsaw)
Małgorzata Sulich-Cowley (University of Warsaw)
Kamran Talattof (University of Arizona)
Małgorzata Wielińska-Soltwedel (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
Mariam Zehtabi (University of Virginia)
Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad (SOAS University of London)

Folia Orientalia 57 (2020) – 58 (2021)

Werner Arnold (Heidelberg University, Center for Jewish Studies Heidelberg)
Piotr Bachtin (University of Warsaw)
Sergio Baldi (University of Naples “L’Orientale”)
Giorgio Banti (University of Naples “L’Orientale”)
Basilius Bawardi (Bar-Ilan University)
Clive Holes (Oxford University)
Peter Juhás (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
Małgorzata Kajzer (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences)
Edyta Kopp (University of Warsaw)
Jolanta Młynarczyk (University of Warsaw)
Michał Moch (Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures of the Polish Academy of Science)
Antonia Navarro-Tejero (University of Córdoba)
Nina Pawlak (University of Warsaw)
Joachim Quack (Heidelberg University)
Magdalena Rodziewicz (University of Warsaw)
Josef Tropper (Free University Berlin, Humboldt University)
Mateusz Wilk (University of Warsaw)
David Wilmsen (American University of Sharjah)




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