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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)

All articles, book reviews, book proposals for review and editorial correspondence should be emailed to: folia.orientalia@uj.edu.pl.



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Folia Orientalia | 2022 | vol. 59

1 Contents
Folia Orientalia | 2022 | vol. 59
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2 ‘Where Are You, My Beloved Iraq?’: Arab-Jewish Identity and Culture Between Demise and Biased Scholarship
Reuven Snir
Folia Orientalia | 2022 | vol. 59 | 5-47 | DOI: 10.24425/for.2022.143835
Keywords: Arab-Jewish culture Arab identity inessential solidarity Iraqi Jews Zionism biased scholarship
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Abstract

We are currently witnessing the demise of Arab-Jewish identity and culture - a tradition that started more than 1,500 years ago is vanishing before our very own eyes. Until the twentieth century, the great majority of the Jews under the rule of Islam used Arabic as their language but after the establishment of the State of Israel, Arabic has been gradually disappearing as a language mastered by Jews. The Arabized Jews have been deliberately excluded from Arabism to the point that we can now assume an unspoken agreement between Zionism and Arab nationalism to carry out a total cleansing of Arab-Jewish identity and culture. The present article focuses on the changes in the concept of identity and belonging among the Arabized Jews, especially the Iraqi-Baghdadi intellectuals among them. As I previously argued, due to some processes that those Jews had experienced during the twentieth century and because of some global developments, they gradually developed a negative sensitivity toward the notion of stable identity, whatever identity. Instead of that, they started to assert, explicitly and implicitly, their particular singularities and to search for alternative forms of identification, mostly various kinds of inessential solidarity and belonging. The article refers as well to the scholarship on Arab-Jewish identity and culture that has frequently been moving into non-academic spaces, neglecting the necessary unbiased scholarly discourse.
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Authors and Affiliations

Reuven Snir
1
ORCID: ORCID
  1. University of Haifa, Israel
3 From ‘flaying’, ‘Ascension’ and ‘red garden-beet’ to ‘wolves’ and ‘sweet dishes’: The Stunning Semantic Variety in the Arabic Root SLQ as a Touchstone for Arabic Etymologists
Stephan Guth
Folia Orientalia | 2022 | vol. 59 | 49-75 | DOI: 10.24425/for.2022.143836
Keywords: loanwords reflexes of protSem *š- causative root extension figurative use semantic expansion
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Abstract

The following article can serve as yet another report from the workshop of an Etymological Dictionary of Arabic ( EtymArab).1 Work on a ‘zero version’ of such a dictionary has seen (slow but) steady progress since several years now. Taking the root √SLQ as an example, this contribution gives an idea about the high potential of such a project, but also shows its clear actual limits. The enormous spectrum of semantic values covered by √SLQ—one may distinguish more than thirty meanings that, at first sight, do not seem related to each other—provides a fine illustration of the complex composition of the modern as well as the classical lexicon. The current state of affairs in Arabic etymology allows us, to a certain degree, to ‘sort out things’ and bring some order into this confusing complexity. In many cases, however, research also remains ‘hanging in the air’.
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Stephan Guth
1
ORCID: ORCID
  1. University of Oslo, Norway
4 iglēt w-šibʿēt ‘I ate to satiety’: Southern Iraqi Marshland Episodes in Hebrew and Arabic Letters
Ori Shachmon , Peleg Gottdiner
Folia Orientalia | 2022 | vol. 59 | 77-94 | DOI: 10.24425/for.2022.143837
Keywords: Iraq Marshland Arabic dialects contact dialectology qǝltu gilit
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Abstract

This article analyzes an unusual document in the Arabic dialect of the marshlands of southern Iraq. Written by a Jewish Iraqi poet, who arrived in Israel from the city of ʿAmāra in the late 1940s, this document consists of two monologues, each repeated twice: first in Hebrew letters and then again in Arabic script. While the writer evidently spoke a qǝltu dialect as his mother tongue, the monologues demonstrate the gilit dialect of the southern Iraqi marshes, and include several idiosyncrasies of that region. The document thus provides linguistic evidence from a dialect area so far documented only partially and insufficiently. We have been able to identify significant differences between the Arabic and Hebrew versions, which led us to view the former as a more reliable attestation of the linguistic reality of the Iraqi marshlands, and the latter as a version produced at a later stage. The writer’s intention was apparently to demonstrate the close inter-communal relations between the Jews of southern Iraq and the Marsh Arabs, yet his attempt to reproduce a text in the marshland’s dialect reveals a more complex picture: While the marshland gilit dialect was known to the qǝltu speakers of the area, the shift between the varieties remained challenging, as is often the case in co-territorial communal dialects.
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Ori Shachmon
1
ORCID: ORCID
Peleg Gottdiner
1
  1. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
5 Negev Bedouin daḥīyah Songs: Celebrating Brotherhood Above War and Love
Letizia Cerqueglini
Folia Orientalia | 2022 | vol. 59 | 95-126 | DOI: 10.24425/for.2022.143838
Keywords: Negev Arabic Bedouin Arabic daḥīyah Bedouin folk songs Palestinian folk songs neo-daḥīyah
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Abstract

While much attention has been paid to several dialectal Arabic narrative and poetic genres, Negev Arabic (NA) daḥīyah songs (NA diḥḥiyyih, also known as daḥḥa) have received little scholarly attention. I report here eight traditional Negev Bedouin daḥīyah songs, one neo- daḥīyah, and one haǧīn (NA hiǧnih) - recorded during personal meetings with informants from 2017 to 2019 - in transcription and translation with some stylistic and linguistic comments. Background information is provided on the characteristics of this vernacular genre - its performance, contents, and scope - and its evolution. Daḥīyah has profoundly changed in content, language, and form in the transition from traditional Negev Bedouin society - before the establishment of the State of Israel - to the present. Originally a form of martial collective chant and dance mainly performed at wedding celebrations, the daḥīyah has gained popularity in neighboring sedentary Palestinian communities, where it has become an expression of identity, resistance, and revolt on various festive occasions. Today, several closely interconnected daḥīyah types coexist in the Negev, from songs that adhere to traditional models in terms of composition and performance to neo- daḥīyah.
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Letizia Cerqueglini
1
ORCID: ORCID
  1. Tel Aviv University, Israel
6 Dānish — the First Women’s Journal in Iran: A Contribution to the Study of the Discourse of the Early Iranian Women’s Movement
Piotr Bachtin
Folia Orientalia | 2022 | vol. 59 | 127-142 | DOI: 10.24425/for.2022.143839
Keywords: Dānish Iran press women feminism nationalism education marriage child rearing hygiene
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In this article, I explore the content of Iran’s first women’s newspaper, Dānish (‘Knowledge’), published in Tehran in 1910–1911. Using the method of close reading, I address the question of the model of womanhood that was presented in the pages of the weekly. In this regard, I examine selected articles that appeared in the surviving issues of Dānish, distinguishing three dominant thematic areas: the education of girls and women; marital relationships; child rearing, hygiene, and health care. By putting the journal’s discourse in the context of the discussion on ‘women’s issues’ that was ongoing in the press during the Constitutional Revolution (1905–1911), I reflect on the relationship between the agenda of the early Iranian women’s movement and the discourse of constitutionalist nationalism.
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Piotr Bachtin
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ORCID: ORCID
  1. Heidelberg University, Germany
7 Between Art, Politics, and Satire: History in Iranian Television Series
Magdalena Rodziewicz
Folia Orientalia | 2022 | vol. 59 | 143-161 | DOI: 10.24425/for.2022.143840
Keywords: Iran Qajar dynasty Constitutional Movement television series cinematography in Iran
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Abstract

This article looks at Iranian television series and how their creators dealt with historical themes, especially those related to the Qajar dynasty and the Iranian Constitutional Movement. The study is focused on the works of three selected Iranian filmmakers - Ali Hatami, Mohammad Reza Varzi, and Mehran Modiri. Its main objective is to identify the dominant approach to history they have applied in their works. By analyzing their television activities, the paper discusses debates that accompanied serials broadcast, their reception among the critics, and seeks to reflect on the place and role historical productions play in the cultural, social, or political context in modern Iran.
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Magdalena Rodziewicz
1
ORCID: ORCID
  1. University of Warsaw, Poland
8 Some Notes on the Early Minutes of the Iranian Parliament
Stanisław Adam Jaśkowski
Folia Orientalia | 2022 | vol. 59 | 163-187 | DOI: 10.24425/for.2022.143841
Keywords: Iran constitutionalism minutes debates parliament
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Abstract

While the debates of the first term of Iranian Parliament- the National Consultative Assembly, or Majles (1906-1908) - have long been an important source for historians and other scholars, no serious effort has ever been undertaken to try and properly understand this historical source. As a result, a number of misconceptions exist about the debates of the early parliament and what survives as their minutes. The present paper aims to dispel some of these misconceptions by focusing on two issues: 1) whether - and to what extent - what survived to our day (by the virtue of being published in the Majles newspaper) should be considered the official minutes of the parliament; 2) what were some of the characteristics of the later edition of the minutes published as the supplement to the Official Gazette of Iran. This is achieved by the careful analysis of a number of sources, mainly the debates themselves, legal documents, periodicals and memoirs.
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Stanisław Adam Jaśkowski
1
ORCID: ORCID
  1. University of Warsaw, Poland
9 A Few Comments on Selected Articles of the 1964 Constitution of Afghanistan
Mateusz M.P. Kłagisz
Folia Orientalia | 2022 | vol. 59 | 189-235 | DOI: 10.24425/for.2022.143842
Keywords: article constitution democracy monarchy power reform
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The article gathers comments on selected articles to be found in the 1964 Constitution of Afghanistan - the third in Afghanistan’s history but at the same time the first in many respects, not only because of its modern, by the standards of the time, nature, as it was supposed to change the nature of the monarchy from an absolute into a constitutional/parliamentary one. The text is divided into four parts: (0) Introduction, where the aims of the analysis and reasons for writing the text have been presented; (1) Historical perspective of the Afghanistan’s constitutional movement; (2) In-depth comments on: (i) Royal Promulgation, (ii) The Preamble, and (iii) nineteen articles; as well as (3) Conclusions.
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Mateusz M.P. Kłagisz
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ORCID: ORCID
  1. Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
10 Smith, Mark. Between Temple and Tomb: The Demotic Ritual Text of Bodl. MS. Egypt. A. 3 (P), SSR 30. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2019. S. 7–205, Pl. 1–14. ISBN 978-3-447-11331-1
Stefan Bojowald
Folia Orientalia | 2022 | vol. 59 | 237-239 | DOI: 10.24425/for.2022.143843
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Stefan Bojowald
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ORCID: ORCID
  1. University of Bonn, Germany
11 Hsieh, Julia. Ancient Egyptian Letters to the Dead: The Realm of the Dead through the Voice of the Living. Harvard Egyptological Studies 15. Leiden und Boston: Brill, 2022. S. VII–XV, 1–415. ISBN 978-90-04-47231-0
Stefan Bojowald
Folia Orientalia | 2022 | vol. 59 | 240-241 | DOI: 10.24425/for.2022.143844
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Stefan Bojowald
1
ORCID: ORCID
  1. University of Bonn, Germany

Instructions for authors

Instructions for Authors

Deadlines:
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.
Publication of the volume takes place annually in December of the respective year.

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All articles, book reviews and editorial correspondence should be e-mailed to folia.orientalia@uj.edu.pl.

Folia Orientalia accepts contributions in English, French and German.

Articles and book reviews should be submitted in .doc/.docx and .pdf format, preferably in Charis SIL font ( https://software.sil.org/charis/). All characters/fonts not in the Unicode Standard should be sent as an attachment to the text.

All articles must include a title, an abstract in English (100–200 words), keywords (4–10), the main body of the text and a bibliography (see References). Please do not use capital letters in the titles of articles, chapters etc. and avoid overly sophisticated formatting.

Contributions sent to Folia Orientalia should not have been submitted to other journals or publishers, nor should they have been previously published elsewhere in any language. All articles should be based on original research.

Each article will be anonymously evaluated by a minimum of two independent reviewers.

Authors should provide their ORCID number.


References

Style sheet is based on the Chicago Manual of Style 17th edition (author and date).

- Journal article

Fox, Joshua. 1996. ‘A Sequence of Vowel Shifts in Phoenician and Other Languages’. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 55 (1): 37–47.
Intext citation: (Fox 1996: 37); Fox (1996: 37)
Footnote citation: Fox 1996: 37; Fox (1996: 37)

Mulder-Heymans, Noor. 2002. ‘Archaeology, Experimental Archaeology and Ethnoarchaeology on Bread Ovens in Syria’. Civilisations 49 (1–2): 197–221.
Intext citation: (Mulder-Heymans 2002: 198); Mulder-Heymans (2002: 198)
Footnote citation: Mulder-Heymans 2002: 198; Mulder-Heymans (2002: 198)

- Book and edited books

Lewin, Bernhard. 1966. Arabische Texte im Dialekt von Hama mit Einleitung und Glossar. Beiruter Texte und Studien 2. Beirut and Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner.
Intext citation: (Lewin 1966: 67); Lewin (1966: 67)
Footnote citation: Lewin 1966: 67; Lewin (1966: 67)

Fleck, Ludwik. 2019. Denkstile und Tatsachen: gesammelte Schriften und Zeugnisse. Edited by Sylwia Werner and Claus Zittel. 3rd ed. Suhrkamp Taschenbücher Wissenschaft. Berlin: Suhrkamp.
Intext citation: (Fleck 2019); Fleck (2019)
Footnote citation: Fleck 2019; Fleck (2019)

Caubet, Dominique, and Martine Vanhove, eds. 1994. Actes des premières journées internationales de dialectologie arabe de Paris. Colloque international tenu à Paris du 27 au 30 janvier 1993. Paris: INALCO, Publications Langues’O.
Intext citation: (Caubet and Vanhove 1994); Caubet and Vanhove (1994)
Footnote citation: Caubet and Vanhove 1994; Caubet and Vanhove (1994)

Holes, Clive, ed. 2018. Arabic Historical Dialectology: Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Approaches. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Intext citation: (Holes 2018); Holes (2018)
Footnote citation: Holes 2018; Holes (2018)

- Chapter in an edited book

Ullendorff, Edward. 1970. ‘Comparative Semitics’. In Current Trends in Linguistics: Volume 6. Linguistics in South West Asia and North Africa, edited by Thomas A. Sebeok, 261–73. The Hague-Paris: Mouton.
Intext citation: (Ullendorff 1970: 262); Ullendorff (1970: 262)
Footnote citation: Ullendorff 1970: 262; Ullendorff (1970: 262)

Khan, Geoffrey. 2011. ‘North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic’. In The Semitic Languages: An International Handbook, edited by Stefan Weninger, 708–24. Berlin and New York: de Gruyter Mouton.
Intext citation: (Khan 2011: 711); Khan (2011: 711)
Footnote citation: Khan 2011: 711; Khan (2011: 711)

- PhD thesis, MA thesis

Borg, Alexander. 1978. ‘A Historical and Comparative Phonology and Morphology of Maltese’. PhD Thesis, Jerusalem: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Intext citation: (Borg 1978: 112); Borg (1978: 112)
Footnote citation: Borg 1978: 112; Borg (1978: 112)

- Internet sources

Abdellatif, Karim. 2010. Dictionnaire « le Karmous » du Tunisien : Qāmus al-Karmūs li-l-luġa at-tūnisiyya. 19 February 2012. https://www.fichier-pdf.fr/2010/08/31/m14401m/.
Watson, Janet C. E. 2003. ‘Some Pausal Forms from Text 6 of Waṣf Sanʿā: Texts in Ṣanʿānī Arabic Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2000 (Semitica Viva; 23)’. 31 October 2003. http://www.semarch.uni-hd.de/tondokumente.php43?&GR_ID=&ORT_ID=54&DOK_ID=1003〈=de.

- Citations

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)


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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.


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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.

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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.

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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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