《东方经济和社会历史杂志》包含了一些研究，这些研究进一步加深了我们对古代近东、伊斯兰世界以及南亚、东南亚和东亚经济和社会历史的了解，这些研究由经济和社会历史学家、法律和行政历史学家、语言学家、民族志学家、人类学家、考古学家组成。学者、理论社会学家和其他社会科学家。按时间顺序，这本杂志从古代一直延续到十九世纪初。《东方经济社会史》自1958年出版以来，已成为该领域的主要期刊。人们普遍认为，《东方经济社会史》在质量上是无与伦比的。
The Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient contains studies furthering our knowledge of the economic and social history of the Ancient Near East, the World of Islam, and South, Southeast, and East Asia by economic and social historians, historians of law and administration, philologists, ethnographers, anthropologists, archaeologists, theoretical sociologists, and other social scientists. Chronologically, the journal extends over the period from ancient times until the beginning of the nineteenth century. Published since 1958, the Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient has established itself as the principal journal in its field. It is commonly agreed that the Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient is unsurpassed in quality.
