Oriental Institute, Oxford
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The Oriental Institute of the University of Oxford 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, but some parts of the faculty have their own buildings elsewhere in and around Oxford. The faculty is divided into three sub-faculties based on subject area. They are:
- Sub-Faculty of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, which covers
- Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies (also based at the Griffith Institute of the Asmolean Museum)
- Hebrew and Jewish Studies (also based at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies at Yarnton Manor)
- Eastern Christian Studies (including Armenian, Coptic and Syriac)
- Arabic, Persian and Turkish
- Islamic Art and Archaeology (also based at the Khalili Research Centre)
- Modern Middle Eastern Studies
- European and Middle Eastern Languages); Khalili Research Centre; Lectures, Seminars and Events)
- Sub-Faculty of South and Inner Asian Studies, which covers
- Sub-Faculty of East Asian Studies (also based at the Eastern Art Department of the Ashmolean Museum), which covers
