Folia Orientalia

About the Journal

Folia Orientalia (FO or 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 embraces a broad range of Asian and African Studies, with particular emphasis on linguistic, literary, historical, archaeological, cultural, religious and art-historical research, primarily relating to Western Asia, South Asia, Central Asia and Africa.

Folia Orientalia is a peer-reviewed journal founded in 1959 by Tadeusz Lewicki, an eminent Polish Arabist, who identified the need for a new yearbook devoted to the cultures and civilisations of Asia and Africa in their widest sense. Lewicki served as Chair of the Editorial Board (1959–1968, 1971–1976) and later as Editor (1980–1986). From 1959 to 1979, the position of Editor was held by Franciszek Machalski, an Iranologist. Subsequent Editors included Stanisław Stachowski, a Turkologist (1987–2002), Andrzej Zaborski, an Arabist and specialist in comparative linguistics of Semitic and African languages (2003–2014), and Tomasz Polański, an archaeologist and philologist specialising in Hellenistic studies (2015–2021). Since 2022, the journal has been jointly edited by Maciej Klimiuk (Freie Universität Berlin; Heidelberg University) and Arkadiusz Płonka (Jagiellonian University in Kraków).