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168 programmes in 37 countries
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537 venues in 68 countries
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594 libraries
إصدار مجمع الملك سلمان العالميّ للغة العربيّة (قائمة الرياض للمفردات الشائعة في اللغة العربية المعاصرة) لأكثر 5000 كلمة شائعة.
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15 November 2026 · Jumada II 5, 1448 AH
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الخليل بن أحمد الفراهيديّ
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Source: «العين» — أوّلُ معجمٍ في العربيّة
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Seven directories for those who teach, learn and research Arabic – pick one to see a sample.
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 (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
UniversityArabic for Non-Native Speakers (MSA and Egyptian Colloquial)
Center for Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language (TAFL), Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University
Egypt · Alexandria
InstituteCentre de langue et de civilisation arabes (CLCA) — Institut du monde arabe
Institut du monde arabe
France · Paris
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
InstituteLearn Arabic in Jordan Programme
Modern Language Center (MLC)
Jordan · Amman
UniversityDepartment of Arabic — Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies — College of Asian Languages and Cultures
South Korea · Seoul
UniversityArabic, Basic Course 1 (distance)
University of Gothenburg
Online
UniversityDiploma of Proficiency in Arabic for Speakers of Other Languages (Intensive Programme)
King Saud University — College of Language Sciences, Department of Language Preparation for Non-Arabic Speakers
Saudi Arabia · Riyadh
UniversityModern Standard Arabic and Lebanese Arabic Courses for Non-Arabic Speakers
Centre for Arabic Research and Language Studies (CREA), Faculty of Languages and Translation, Saint Joseph University of Beirut (USJ)
Lebanon · Beirut
UniversityDiploma in Modern Arabic – University of Delhi
University of Delhi – Department of Arabic
India · Delhi
Online platformArabic Language Fundamentals — Al-Dhad E-Training Institute
Al-Dhad E-Training Institute
Online
From the Arab world and beyond, in Arabic and other languages, for publishing scholarly research
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society
Cambridge University Press (Royal Asiatic Society)
United Kingdom · About Arabic
ISSN: 1474-0591
Multidisciplinary International Peer-reviewed journalZeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (ZDMG)
Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft / Harrassowitz
Germany · About Arabic
ISSN: 2747-4402
Multidisciplinary International Refereed book seriesArabische Studien
Harrassowitz Verlag
Germany · About Arabic
International Peer-reviewed journalAsiatische Studien – Études Asiatiques
De Gruyter Brill (Swiss Asia Society)
Switzerland · About Arabic
ISSN: 2235-5871
Multidisciplinary International Peer-reviewed journalJournal Asiatique
Peeters (Société asiatique)
France · About Arabic
ISSN: 1783-1504
Multidisciplinary International Refereed book seriesAbhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes (AKM)
Harrassowitz Verlag for the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (DMG)
Germany · About Arabic
ISSN: 0567-4980
Multidisciplinary International Peer-reviewed journalLe Muséon: Revue d'études orientales
Peeters
Belgium · About Arabic
ISSN: 1783-158X
Multidisciplinary International Peer-reviewed journalRevue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée (REMMM)
Presses universitaires de Provence / Aix-Marseille Université (IREMAM)
France · About Arabic
ISSN: 2105-2271
Multidisciplinary International Refereed book seriesIslamic Manuscripts and Books
Brill
Netherlands · About Arabic
ISSN: 1877-9964
International Peer-reviewed journalOriens Christianus: Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Harrassowitz
Germany · About Arabic
ISSN: 0340-6407
Multidisciplinary International Peer-reviewed journalOriente Moderno
Brill (Istituto per l'Oriente C.A. Nallino)
Netherlands · About Arabic
ISSN: 2213-8617
Multidisciplinary International Refereed book seriesHandbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1: The Near and Middle East (Handbuch der Orientalistik)
Brill
Netherlands · About Arabic
ISSN: 0169-9423
Multidisciplinary InternationalBodies that do research on Arabic: language academies, dictionary projects, research centres and computing labs, and manuscript centres — in the Arab world and beyond.
King Salman Global Academy for Arabic Language
Ministry of Culture
Language academy working on language planning and policy, computational linguistics, dictionaries and corpora, with conferences, books and reports on Arabic.
Saudi Arabia · Riyadh
Dictionary projectGlossarium Graeco-Arabicum
Institut für Arabistik und Islamwissenschaft, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Lexicon of medieval Arabic translations from Greek, about 80,000 scanned index cards.
Germany · Bochum
Dictionary projectHistorical Dictionary of the Arabic Language (Sharjah)
Arabic Language Academy in Sharjah
Historical dictionary tracing Arabic words and their meanings across five periods, arranged by root with dated citations, produced with Arab academies.
United Arab Emirates · Sharjah
Research centreInstituto Egipcio de Estudios Islámicos en Madrid
Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (Egypt)
Studies Andalusi and Arabic heritage and translates Arabic sources into Spanish.
Spain · Madrid
Research centre Also teaches ArabicInstitute of Arab Research and Studies
Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO)
A postgraduate institute of Arab studies, with a department of heritage and manuscript studies; holds symposia and publishes research in the humanities.
Egypt · Cairo
University centre Also teaches ArabicCentre of Arabic and African Studies (CAAS), Jawaharlal Nehru University
School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, JNU
Teaching and research in modern Arabic language, literature and translation up to PhD.
India · New Delhi
University centreArabic Language Sciences Research Centre
Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University — Deanship of Scientific Research
Research centre devoted to research in the Arabic language sciences, publishing researchers' books, theses and papers.
Saudi Arabia · Riyadh
Oriental studies institute or centre Also teaches ArabicSemitistik – Seminar für Sprachen und Kulturen des Vorderen Orients, Universität Heidelberg
Universität Heidelberg
Semitic studies with a long tradition in the dialectology of Arabic and Neo-Aramaic.
Germany · Heidelberg
Research chairProf. Abdulaziz Al-Mane Chair for Arabic Language and Literature
King Saud University
Research chair publishing studies in Arabic language and literature, researching language acquisition and learning, and cooperating with Arabic-related institutions at home and abroad.
Saudi Arabia · Riyadh
Arabic computingPrague Arabic Dependency Treebank – ÚFAL
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University
Multi-level morphologically and syntactically annotated Modern Standard Arabic treebank; basis of UD Arabic-PADT.
Czech Republic · Prague
Arabic computingNatural Language Processing Department, MBZUAI
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
University NLP department that contributed to building large Arabic language models such as Jais.
United Arab Emirates · Abu Dhabi
Manuscripts and editionsCentre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC)
Universität Hamburg
Research institute for manuscript cultures worldwide, including Arabic and African Ajami manuscripts and Islamic seals.
Germany · Hamburg
For learners, teachers and researchers of Standard Arabic: apps and websites for learning, and the dictionaries and tools that serve it, 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.
Maha Alrabiah, King Saud University (with Eric Atwell, University of Leeds)
About 50 million words of Classical Arabic from the pre-Islamic era to the fourth Hijri century, in religion, linguistics, literature, science, sociology and biography; built to study the meanings of Quranic words in contemporaneous texts.
Bayyinah Institute
A self-paced video curriculum for understanding the Qur'an in Arabic, from grammar and morphology to rhetoric and surah analysis — for comprehension, not conversation.
منظّمة الأغذية والزراعة (الفاو)
About seventy thousand records on agriculture, food, water, fisheries and the names of bodies. Arabic coverage varies between collections.
Arabic Language Institute, King Saud University
A free self-study course in contemporary standard Arabic: twelve units of seven lessons each, with listening videos you can pause and replay, interactive exercises, and three automatically marked 100-question tests.
International Waqf Foundation
A Qur'an memorisation app covering twenty readings that hides the text, records the user's recitation and then shows it again for checking; it also includes hadith books and classical texts.
Kalimah Center
Cairo-based school giving live one-on-one and group online lessons in MSA and Classical Arabic, plus Quran with tajweed; it does not teach Egyptian dialect.
Taha Zerrouki
Paste unvowelled Arabic and it adds the short-vowel marks, which helps learners read difficult text; the vowelling is automatic, so it should be checked rather than trusted.
LoreBrain
Free graded Arabic stories sorted by CEFR level from A0 to B2, with audio narration, vocabulary help and a quiz per story.
مجمع الملك سلمان العالمي للغة العربية
A King Salman Global Academy portal of interactive lexical and educational word games, with over fifty games in its trial phase.
Little Thinking Minds
A children's app that runs from the letters to advanced reading levels, with games, videos and over a thousand books from Arab publishers, after a free trial.
Simon & Schuster
An audio course built on listening and repetition, with a dedicated Modern Standard Arabic track sold in 30-lesson blocks and a free first lesson.
Published series and books for teaching Modern Standard Arabic to non-native speakers, from Saudi Arabia and beyond – a listing and description.
Arabic Language Institute, Umm al-Qura University · Saudi Arabia
Fanar Qatar Islamic Cultural Center, Doha · Qatar
Imran Hamza Alawiye, Anglo-Arabic Graphics · United Kingdom
Mahmoud Ismail Sini, Muhammad al-Rifai al-Sheikh and Dafallah Ahmad Saleh, King Saud University Press · Saudi Arabia
Dr V. Abdur Rahim, Islamic University of Madinah · Saudi Arabia
Vladimir Lebedev, VKN, Moscow · Russia
Imam Zarkasyi and Imam Syubani, Pondok Modern Darussalam Gontor · Indonesia
Mahmoud Ismail Sini and colleagues, Dar al-Marrikh, Riyadh · Saudi Arabia
Arabic Linguistics Institute, King Saud University · Saudi Arabia
Victoria Aguilar and colleagues, Herder and Diego Marín · Spain
Turkish Ministry of National Education (MEB) · Turkey
A. A. Kovalev and G. Sh. Sharbatov, Vostochnaya Literatura, Moscow · Russia
A guide to the libraries around the world that hold Arabic manuscripts: where they are, what they hold, where the catalogue is, and whether the manuscripts can be seen online. It lists libraries, not individual manuscripts.
Associations, societies and unions of Arabic teachers and scholars around the world, gathered from the country sections onto one page. Each has its own page in its country section, with an introduction, its website and a way to write to it.
Academic Society for Arabic Language and Literature in Nigeria (ASALLIN)
Nigeria
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