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The Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Research Fellow in the Department of South Asia with a tentative start date of June 2022.

A new article of OI Scholar James Madaio: ‘The Narrative Shape of Orthopraxy: Storytelling, Dharma, and the Path to Liberation in Advaita Vedānta’ has been published in the Journal of Hindu Studies in the Journal of Hindu Studies (Oxford University Press).

The conference is organized to commemorate the centenary of the Oriental Institute in Prague. We look forward to meeting you in Prague in September 2022 !

No Arab historical figure is more demonized than the Egyptian literati-turned-Islamist Sayyid Qutb. A poet and literary critic in his youth, Qutb is known to have abandoned literature in the 1950s in favor of Islamism, becoming its most prominent ideologist to this day. ...

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The Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Director of its branch office in Taiwan with a tentative start date of June 1, 2022.

From 'Mercy' to 'Banner of Labour': the Bukharan Jewish press in late Tsarist and early Soviet Central Asia. This paper presents the development and transformations of Bukharan Jewish newspapers and periodicals (1910–38) and situates them in the broader Central Asian mediascape. ...

Congratulations! Ondřej Beránek, Bronislav Ostřanský and Pavel Ťupek received the Jaroslav Jirsa award for the best textbook in the humanities and social sciences for their “Islamic Reader: Study Anthology of Arabic Islamic Writings!”

Odešla velká učitelka… 6. prosince 2021 se završila pozemská pouť Zorici Dubovské (1926-2021), která se 11. dubna tohoto roku dožila 95 let. Paní Dubovská byla spoluzakladatelkou indonéských studií v českých zemích a dlouholetou přednášející a garantkou indonesistiky na Filozofické fakultě ...

New revelations on the laundering of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda through local actors in the Czech Republic point to an underresearched aspect of influence operations. The CCP’s tactic of “borrowing a boat to go out to sea” (借船出海, jie chuan chu hai), i.e. ...