Challenges of Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Approach. New Horizons in Oriental Studies

It is our pleasure to invite potential readers to get acquainted with the contributions to Oriental studies included in the present volume. As its title suggests, research on the Oriental studies topics often requires the application of more than one methodology that creates challenges of an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary approach. Disciplines such as literature, linguistics, cognitive science, cultural and religious studies, history, sociology, politics, and even economy are represented in the current volume. Likewise, the recent advances and developments in the field of Asian and African studies including new tools (digital philology, computational linguistics, etc.) opening new horizons in Oriental studies have been discussed.The majority of the texts are based on papers read at the 8th and 9th International Conferences of Oriental Studies organized by the Committee of Oriental Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the Faculty of Oriental Studies of the University of Warsaw on November 25–26, 2019, and December 5–6, 2020, and one contribution (by Zuzanna Nabulssi) was additionally included in the volume as thematically relevant.