Oriental and Asian Department

With 600,000 printed works in the original languages and 19,900 manuscripts, the Oriental and Asian Department belongs to the world's renowned collections with comprehensive and important holdings from all parts of the Orient and Asia. It covers the regions of North Africa, the Near and Middle East, Central, South, South-East and East Asia and is divided into six specialised subdivisions.

The department acquires literature in the original languages. The collection's focus is on humanities: Philosophy, religion (Christian Orient, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism), history, archaeology, linguistic and literature studies, music, architecture and art, history of science, ethnic studies, book history and classical text editions. A broad variety of secondary literature in Western European languages is collected.

The department is divided into six divisions:

Hebrew Works, Yiddish, Ancient Orient, Egyptology

Prof. Dr. Stefan Wimmer
Phone:  +49 89 28638-2880
stefan.wimmer@bsb-muenchen.de

Arabic and Islamic Studies

Dr. Felix Wiedemann
Phone:  +49 89 28638-2366
felix.wiedemann@bsb-muenchen.de

Turkic Languages and Persian

Mirja Weinmann
Phone:  +49 89 28638-2883
mirja.weinmann@bsb-muenchen.de

Armenian, Georgian, Semitic Languages

Wolfgang Schmitt-Garibian
Phone:  +49 89 28638-2881
wolfgang.schmitt-garibian@bsb-muenchen.de

South and Central Asia

India, Tibet: Ralf Kramer
Phone:  +49 89 28638-2851
ralf.kramer@bsb-muenchen.de

Mongolia: Wolfgang Schmitt-Garibian
Phone:  +49 89 28638-2881
wolfgang.schmitt-garibian@bsb-muenchen.de

East Asia

Dr. Thomas Tabery
Phone:  +49 89 28638-2656
thomas.tabery@bsb-muenchen.de