The "Oriental Publishing House" or" Verlag für Orientkunde" was founded in 1949 by Dr. Hans Vorndran just to serve the arts and humanities on behalf of the Islamic Orient.
In it's almost 70 years of existence the VfO published 46 volumes of the series "Beiträge zur Kulturgeschichte des Islamischen Orients" (Contributions to the Cultural History of the Islamic Orient).