About the Journal

Academic journal Prilozi za orijentalnu filologiju/ Contributions to Oriental Philology is one of the oldest journals in Bosnia and Herzegovina, launched in 1950. The journal promotes the work of scholars in the field of oriental philology, history and Ottoman studies along with research in the field of Arabic, Turkish and Persian languages and literatures in these languages an also in the fields of Islamic tradition, art, culture and civilisation. When selecting the papers to be published, the Editorial Board is guided by the principle of promoting a scientific approach and originality in interpreting events and phenomena in the general and the cultural history of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the period of Ottoman rule in the wider region, promoting transliteration and translation of historical sources, archival and literary sources, linguistic features of the sources, and their theoretical elaboration. Contributions to Oriental Philology include papers in Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, English, Turkish, Arabic, Persian, French and German.

The journal is published once a year and indexed in EBSCO (HISTORICAL ABSTRACTS WITH FULL TEXT via EBSCOhost) and also available in CEEOL.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.