Oriental Institute, Oxford

The Oriental Institute building on Pusey Lane, Oxford. The rotunda of the Sackler Library can be seen in the background.

The Oriental Institute (commonly referred to as the O.I.) of the University of Oxford, England, is home to the university's Faculty of Oriental Studies. It is engaged in research and teaching of a wide range of disciplines covering modern and historical Asian languages and culture. The Oriental Institute's main building is located on Pusey Lane behind the Ashmolean Museum and Sackler Library, but some parts of the faculty have their own buildings elsewhere in and around Oxford. The institute has its own library, which covers most of the ground floor and basement of the building. The Oriental Institute Library (known as OIL internally) is both a lending library and a reading room of the Bodleian Library.

The faculty is divided into three sub-faculties based on subject area. They are:

• Sub-Faculty of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, which covers
  • Department of the Islamic World
    • Arabic, Persian and Turkish
    • Islamic Art and Archaeology (also based at the Khalili Research Centre)
    • Modern Middle Eastern Studies
  • Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies (also based at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies at Yarnton Manor)
  • Department of Eastern Christianity (including Armenian, Coptic and Syriac)
  • Department of Egyptology and the Ancient Near East (also based at the Griffith Institute of the Ashmolean Museum)
  • European and Middle Eastern Languages
• Sub-Faculty of South and Inner Asian Studies, which covers
  • Hindi and Urdu
  • Sanskrit (classical and Vedic)
  • Tibetan and Himalyan Studies
• Sub-Faculty of East Asian Studies (also based at the Eastern Art Department of the Ashmolean Museum), which covers
  • Chinese (based at the Institute of Chinese Studies on Walton Street)
  • Japanese (also based at the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, Winchester Road )
  • Korean

See also

• Laudian Professor of Arabic – one of the chairs in the Faculty of Oriental Studies
• Professor of Egyptology (Oxford)

External links

• Official website of the Oriental Institute Library
• Official website of the Oriental Institute
• Griffith Institute, Ashmolean Museum
• Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Yarnton Manor
• Khalili Research Centre for Art and the Material Culture of the Middle East
• Eastern Art Department, Ashmolean Museum
• Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies