The pages of the Journal are always open to original and interesting contributions from scholars. From that year to the present day, the Journal has brought to the world of scholarship the results of the advanced researches of the most distinguished American Orientalists, specialists in the literatures and civilizations of the Near East, North Africa, South and Southeast Asia, Inner Asia, the Far East and the Islamic World. Du Ponceau, assailing the doctrine of the 'ideographic' character of the Chinese script. It included studies of Arab music, of Persian cuneiform, and of Buddhism in India, and brought to a wide audience the then novel theories of Pierre E. The first volume, published in 1843-49, set the tone for all time in the broad scope of subject matter and the solidity of its scholarship.
The regular serial publication of the Society, issued quarterly, is the Journal of the American Oriental Society.
