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26 October 2026 · Jumada I 15, 1448 AH
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مَن عرفَ لغةَ قومٍ أمِنَ مكرَهم.
Source: أثرٌ يُروى عن عمر بن الخطّاب
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ثعلب — «مجالس ثعلب»
أحمد بن يحيى، إمامُ الكوفيّين في النحو واللغة. و«المجالس» تدوينٌ لما كان يُملى في مجلسه من لغةٍ وشعرٍ وأخبار — صورةٌ حيّةٌ لطريقة التعليم في القرن الثالث. تُوفّي سنة ٢٩١ للهجرة.
Source: «مجالس ثعلب»
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السبب: «ذو» من الأسماء الخمسة، تُجرّ بالياء بعد حرف الجرّ.
Umar ibn al-Khattab
Praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds, and peace and blessings be upon our Prophet Muhammad and upon all his family and companions. More than a quarter of a century has passed since the first version of Voice of Arabic was launched: I published it on Saturday, 20 Jumada al-Akhirah 1422 AH (8 September 2001). It took…
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Universities, institutes and platforms teaching Arabic to non-native speakers, in Saudi Arabia, the Arab world and beyond — pick a kind or a country to open the directory on it.
Linguistic Preparation Diploma
Islamic University of Madinah — Institute for Teaching Arabic to Non-Native Speakers
Saudi Arabia · Madinah
UniversityPalestine and Arabic Studies Program (PAS)
Birzeit University — Palestine and Arabic Studies (PAS)
Palestine · Birzeit
InstituteCentre de langue et de civilisation arabes (CLCA) — Institut du monde arabe
Institut du monde arabe
France · Paris
UniversityArabic, Basic Course 1 (distance)
University of Gothenburg
Online
UniversityLinguistic Preparation Diploma (Diploma in Arabic for Non-Native Speakers) — Intensive Morning Programme
Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University — Arabic Language Teaching Institute, Department of Language Preparation
Saudi Arabia · Riyadh
UniversityBrother Vincent Malham Center — Arabic School
Bethlehem University
Palestine · Bethlehem
UniversityDepartment of Arabic — Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies — College of Asian Languages and Cultures
South Korea · Seoul
UniversityMiddle Eastern and Mediterranean Language Institute (MEDLI) – Arabic
University of Wisconsin–Madison (WISLI)
Online
UniversityLinguistic Qualification Diploma
Umm Al-Qura University — Institute for Teaching Arabic to Non-Native Speakers
Saudi Arabia · Makkah
UniversityArabic for Non-Native Speakers Center (ANNS)
Qatar University — College of Arts and Sciences
Qatar · Doha
InstituteAl-Wāḥa Arabic Language Village
Concordia Language Villages
United States · Bemidji, Minnesota
Online platformIntroduction to Arabic — OpenLearn
The Open University
Online
Bodies that do research on Arabic: language academies, dictionary projects, research centres and computing labs, and manuscript centres — in the Arab world and beyond.
Arabic Language Academy in Cairo
Sets terminology, publishes general and specialised dictionaries, edits heritage texts and holds an annual conference on Arabic.
Egypt · Cairo
Dictionary projectThe Arabic Papyrology Database (APD)
Institut für den Nahen und Mittleren Osten, LMU München
Database of premodern Arabic documents on papyrus, parchment and paper, with full texts and a lexicon of lemmata and roots.
Germany · Munich
Dictionary projectAssociation of Arabic Lexicography (Tunis)
Lexicographic research on Arabic, especially the historical dictionary, through conferences and publications.
Tunisia · Tunis
Research centreALiDiM – Arabic Linguistic Discourse in the Making
Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Metalinguistic study of how Classical Arabic was codified in 7th–10th-century grammatical and lexical sources.
Italy · Venice
Research centre Also teaches ArabicKhartoum International Institute for Arabic Language
Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO)
Trains specialists in teaching Arabic to non-native speakers, conducts field research in the area, and is preparing an Arabic–Hausa dictionary.
Sudan · Khartoum
University centre Also teaches ArabicDipartimento Istituto Italiano di Studi Orientali – ISO, Sapienza Università di Roma
Sapienza Università di Roma
Research on the languages and civilisations of Asia and Africa, including Arabic, Semitic philology and Arabic dialectology; publishes Rivista degli Studi Orientali.
Italy · Rome
University centreZai Arabic Language Research Centre
Zayed University
Research centre on Arabic teaching and learning and the psychology of reading, developing diagnostic tools, a terminology glossary and the Bariq thesaurus.
United Arab Emirates · Abu Dhabi
Research chair Also teaches ArabicLehrstuhl für Arabistik und Semitistik, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
Arabic within the Semitic languages; responsible for the comparative-Semitic part of a historical Arabic dictionary with AUB, a Greek–Arabic dictionary of medieval translations, and the online Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics.
Germany · Erlangen
Research chairChair for Teaching Arabic to Speakers of Other Languages
Arabic Linguistics Institute, King Saud University
Research, authorship and publishing on teaching Arabic to non-native speakers, including teaching software, with workshops and conferences.
Saudi Arabia · Riyadh
Arabic computingarabiCorpus
College of Humanities, Brigham Young University
Searchable Arabic text corpus (press, novels, the Qur'an) for usage and vocabulary research.
United States · Provo
Arabic computingArabic Language Technologies (ALT), Qatar Computing Research Institute
Qatar Computing Research Institute — Hamad Bin Khalifa University
Research group on Arabic text and speech processing, developing tools and applications such as pronunciation feedback, and working to enrich Arabic content.
Qatar · Doha
Manuscripts and editionsSAVAMA-DCI (Sauvegarde et Valorisation des Manuscrits pour la Défense de la Culture Islamique)
Association of private Timbuktu library owners supporting the conservation and cataloguing of their Arabic manuscripts; inventories added to WAAMD.
Mali · Timbuktu
For learners of Standard and Quranic Arabic: apps, websites and dictionaries, each with its level and language of instruction.
Rosetta Stone LLC (a division of IXL Learning)
Teaches Modern Standard Arabic through immersive lessons without translation, and checks pronunciation with speech recognition.
Mohamed Amadou Garba
Teaches Quranic words and their roots from the most frequent upward, showing each word in its verse, with audio and multiple-choice or typing practice.
Michigan State University (Ayman Mohamed and Sadam Issa)
The open-licence sequel to Elementary Arabic I, already in the directory: theme-based units (family, school, weather, city life) for a second semester of standard Arabic, usable for self-study.
Yunus (Jonas) Andreasson
Short passages from classical Islamic authors — Ibn al-Qayyim, Ibn al-Jawzi, al-Nawawi and others — in Arabic beside an English rendering that keeps the Arabic word order; tap a word for its meaning and sound, and the words you miss come back for review.
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