《東方經濟和社會歷史雜志》包含了一些研究，這些研究進一步加深了我們對古代近東、伊斯蘭世界以及南亞、東南亞和東亞經濟和社會歷史的了解，這些研究由經濟和社會歷史學家、法律和行政歷史學家、語言學家、民族志學家、人類學家、考古學家組成。學者、理論社會學家和其他社會科學家。按時間順序，這本雜志從古代一直延續到十九世紀初。《東方經濟社會史》自1958年出版以來，已成為該領域的主要期刊。人們普遍認為，《東方經濟社會史》在質量上是無與倫比的。

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.