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.
Copyright on any open access article in the Folia Orientalia journal published by Polish Academy of Sciences is retained by the author(s). Authors grant Polish Academy of Sciences a license to publish the article and identify itself as the original publisher. Authors also grant any user the right to use the article freely if its integrity is maintained and its original authors, citation details and publisher are identified. The Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 formalizes these and other terms and conditions of publishing articles.
ISSN
ISSN 0015-5675
Publishers
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.
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.
Folia Orientalia
Polish Academy of Sciences – Kraków Branch
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Tel.: +48 12 356-23-00
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Copyright
Copyright on any open access article in the Folia Orientalia journal published by Polish Academy of Sciences is retained by the author(s). Authors grant Polish Academy of Sciences a license to publish the article and identify itself as the original publisher. Authors also grant any user the right to use the article freely if its integrity is maintained and its original authors, citation details and publisher are identified. The Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 formalizes these and other terms and conditions of publishing articles.
The editorial team of Folia Orientalia implements an open access policy by publishing materials in the form of the so-called Gold Open Access and encourages authors to place articles published in the journal in open repositories (after the review or the final version of the publisher), provided that a link to the journal’s website is provided.
Exceptions to copyright policy
For the articles which were previously published, before year 2020, policies that are different from the above. In all such, access to these articles is free from fees or any other access restrictions. Permissions for the use of the texts published in that journal may be sought directly from the editorial team of Folia Orientalia, by e-mail: folia.orientalia@uj.edu.pl.