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9 November 2026 · Jumada I 29, 1448 AH
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Seven directories for those who teach, learn and research Arabic – pick one to see a sample.
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Diploma in Arabic for Non-Native Speakers
King Abdulaziz University — Arabic Language Institute for Non-Native Speakers
Saudi Arabia · Jeddah
UniversityArabic Language Intensive Summer Program (ALIS)
The American University in Cairo — Department of Arabic Language Instruction
Egypt · Cairo
UniversitySummer Language Institute: Arabic — University of Virginia
University of Virginia
United States · Charlottesville
UniversityMiddle Eastern and Mediterranean Language Institute (MEDLI) – Arabic
University of Wisconsin–Madison (WISLI)
Online
Online platformDigital Diploma in Arabic for Non-Native Speakers
Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University — 'Bu'd' platform (Afaq initiative)
Saudi Arabia · Riyadh
UniversityArabic Language Intensive Program (ALIN)
The American University in Cairo — Department of Arabic Language Instruction
Egypt · Cairo
UniversitySummer Arabic Language Institute — American Islamic College
American Islamic College
United States · Chicago
UniversityArabic, Basic Course 1 (distance)
University of Gothenburg
Online
UniversityDiploma in Teaching Arabic to Non-Native Speakers (language programme for learners)
Qassim University — College of Languages and Humanities, Department of Teaching Arabic to Non-Native Speakers
Saudi Arabia · Buraydah
UniversityArabic Language and Translation Program for Non-Native Speakers
Ain Shams University — Faculty of Al-Alsun (Languages)
Egypt · Cairo
National bodyCritical Language Scholarship (CLS) — Arabic
U.S. Department of State
United States
Online platformQasid Online
Qasid Arabic Institute (Amman)
Online
From the Arab world and beyond, in Arabic and other languages, for publishing scholarly research
Bulletin d'études orientales (BEO)
Institut français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo)
Lebanon · Arabic and others
ISSN: 2077-4079
Multidisciplinary Arab Peer-reviewed journal AnnualPrilozi za orijentalnu filologiju / Contributions to Oriental Philology
University of Sarajevo – Oriental Institute
Bosnia and Herzegovina · Arabic and others
ISSN: 2303-8586
Online only International Refereed book seriesPhilology: Literature and Linguistics Series
Ain Shams University, Faculty of Al-Alsun
Egypt · Arabic and others
ISSN: 2812-4952
Arab Peer-reviewed journalVestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies (Вестник СПбГУ. Востоковедение и африканистика)
Saint Petersburg State University
Russia · About Arabic
ISSN: 2587-5892
ERIH PLUS Multidisciplinary Peer-reviewed journalVestnik Moskovskogo universiteta. Seriya 13. Vostokovedenie (Moscow University Bulletin. Series 13. Oriental Studies)
Moscow University Press (Institute of Asian and African Studies, MSU)
Russia · About Arabic
ISSN: 0320-8095
Multidisciplinary International Refereed book series Conference proceedings seriesProceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies
Archaeopress on behalf of the International Association for the Study of Arabia (IASA)
United Kingdom · About Arabic
ISSN: 0308-8421
Conference papers International Peer-reviewed journalArabic Language & Literature (아랍어와 아랍문학)
Korean Association of Arabic Language and Literature
South Korea · Arabic and others
ISSN: 2734-0120
International Peer-reviewed journalAnnals of Japan Association for Middle East Studies (AJAMES)
Japan Association for Middle East Studies (JAMES)
Japan · About Arabic
ISSN: 2433-1872
Multidisciplinary International Refereed book seriesRoutledge Studies in Arabic Linguistics
Routledge (Taylor & Francis)
United Kingdom · About Arabic
International Peer-reviewed journal AnnualOrientalia Suecana
Uppsala University (Department of Linguistics and Philology)
Sweden · About Arabic
ISSN: 2001-7324
International Peer-reviewed journalStudia Orientalia Electronica (StOr)
Finnish Society for the Study of Asia and Africa
Finland · About Arabic
ISSN: 2323-5209
Online only International Refereed book seriesStudies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics (SSLL)
Brill
Netherlands · About Arabic
ISSN: 0081-8461
InternationalBodies that do research on Arabic: language academies, dictionary projects, research centres and computing labs, and manuscript centres — in the Arab world and beyond.
Palestinian Arabic Language Academy
A language academy working on Arabising the sciences and proposing Arabic alternatives to common foreign terms; holds an annual conference.
Palestine · Gaza
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 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 centreİslam Araştırmaları Merkezi (İSAM)
Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı
Runs a critical-edition unit and Arabic manuscript editing courses, an Arabic–Turkish historical dictionary project, and symposia on Arabic language and rhetoric.
Türkiye · Istanbul
Research centreIbn Abi al-Rabi' al-Sabti Centre for Linguistic and Literary Studies
Rabita Mohammadia of Ulema
Research on the Arabic language sciences (grammar, morphology, lexicon, rhetoric) and their link to the Qur'an and literature, through seminars and publications.
Morocco
University centre Also teaches ArabicDepartment of Arabic Language and Literature, International Islamic University Malaysia
AbdulHamid AbuSulayman Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences (AHAS KIRKHS)
Arabic linguistic and literary studies; publishes a peer-reviewed Arabic-language journal twice a year.
Malaysia · Kuala Lumpur
University centreLaboratory of Research in Algerian Language and Literature
Mohamed Khider University of Biskra
Research in language sciences and literature in Algeria.
Algeria · Biskra
Oriental studies institute or centreDepartment of Middle Eastern Studies, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
Teaches Arabic at undergraduate level and researches Arabic literature, medieval Hebrew–Arabic linguistic thought and Judaeo-Arabic.
United Kingdom · Cambridge
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 computingarabiCorpus
College of Humanities, Brigham Young University
Searchable Arabic text corpus (press, novels, the Qur'an) for usage and vocabulary research. Its page announces that it will close on 1 July 2027.
United States · Provo
Arabic computingALELM — Advanced Language Engineering and Learning Modeling research group
Mohammadia School of Engineers (EMI), Mohammed V University in Rabat
Arabic language engineering: text processing for Standard Arabic and dialects, and computational language resources.
Morocco · Rabat
Manuscripts and editionsArabic manuscripts, Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial
Patrimonio Nacional
Holds about 2,000 Arabic manuscript volumes gathered under Philip II, now being re-catalogued into its online catalogue.
Spain · San Lorenzo de El Escorial
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.
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.
King Salman Global Academy for the Arabic Language (KSAA)
About 322 million words in 4,268 texts written over the last hundred years — books, magazines, theses, websites and newspapers — across religious, cultural, social, political and scientific fields; a teacher can pull real modern examples of a word, its collocations and its frequency.
Hamzah Abdulla
Teaches the Arabic of the Quran through its system: roots and patterns, verb forms I to X with past, present, imperative and passive, drilled in fifteen quiz types with spaced review, plus word-by-word graded readings and short video lessons with transcripts.
منظّمة الصحّة العالميّة، المكتب الإقليميّ لشرق المتوسّط
More than two hundred thousand English–Arabic medical entries in its fifth edition, searchable from any of its five languages into the others.
Georgetown University Press
A widely used university Arabic course in four parts (Alif Baa to Part Three), each with a companion website of exercises and media for students and teachers; Part Three has a new second edition.
Built on Modern Standard Arabic, but the video dialogues also use Egyptian and Levantine Arabic.
Quran Foundation
A reading tool rather than a course: tap any word to hear it and see its meaning, which makes it a good daily companion for Quranic vocabulary.
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.
The CJK Dictionary Institute, Inc.
A paid app that shows full conjugation tables for Arabic verbs across their forms, with English meanings.
Jabal Amman Publishers
Over 1,200 illustrated Arabic and English stories, leveled, with read-to-me audio, recording of the child's own reading, and offline use.
Creative Empire, LLC
A general language app with a separate Modern Standard Arabic course, free to start and offered by many public libraries to their members.
Published series and books for teaching Modern Standard Arabic to non-native speakers, from Saudi Arabia and beyond – a listing and description.
Arabic for All, Riyadh · Saudi Arabia
ALECSO, later AUC Press · Tunisia and Egypt
Abdul Majid Nadwi, under Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi; published by Majlis-e-Nashriyat-e-Islam, Karachi, among others · India and Pakistan
Mahmoud Ismail Sini and colleagues, Dar al-Marrikh, Riyadh · Saudi Arabia
Dr Mamdouh Nour al-Din Muhammad, Dar al-Andalus al-Khadra, Jeddah · Saudi Arabia
Luc-Willy Deheuvels, L'Asiathèque · France
Centre d'études arabes (CEA), Librairie des écoles, Casablanca · Morocco
A. A. Kovalev and G. Sh. Sharbatov, Vostochnaya Literatura, Moscow · Russia
Mahmoud Ismail Saleh, Muhammad al-Rifai al-Sheikh and Ibrahim al-Sayyid, King Saud University Press · Saudi Arabia
Günther Krahl, Wolfgang Reuschel and Eckehard Schulz · Germany
Arabic for All, Riyadh · Saudi Arabia
Olivier Durand, Angela Daniela Langone and Giuliano Mion, Hoepli · Italy
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.
باماكو (نُقلت من تمبكتو) · Mali
رقمن متحف هيل نحو 308 آلاف مخطوط من أكثر من 30 مكتبة في تمبكتو وجنّي وغيرهما. ونقلت جمعيّة سافاما مخطوطات نحو 35 مجموعة خاصّة إلى …
العين · United Arab Emirates
832 مخطوطة، منها 830 عربيّة وواحدة فارسيّة وأخرى تركيّة، بحسب دليل مكتبات المخطوطات (2001)، ص 41–42.
فيلادلفيا · United States
المخطوطات العربيّة في مركز كاتز للدراسات اليهوديّة المتقدّمة: 71، ومعها مخطوطات عربيّة مشتركة مع السامريّة والقبطيّة والعبريّة، وع…
مونتريال · Canada
126 مجلّدًا بالعربية، و68 بالتركية العثمانية، و31 بالفارسية.
شنقيط ووادان · Mauritania
وصفت قائمة ريبستوك ويحيى 1109 مواد في 12 مجموعة خاصّة بالمدينتين، وأحصى مسحٌ لليونسكو 33 مكتبة فيها نحو 3450 مادّة، بحسب كراتلي (2…
نتساويني ومبيني ونتسوجيني · Comoros
مخطوطتان في مسجد جمبا فومناو، وثلاث عند الشيخ محمد مأمون، وست عند عبد الله منير، بحسب دليل مكتبات المخطوطات (2001)، ص 73–74.
القدس · Palestine
1307 مادّة مصوّرة عند متحف هيل، بالعربيّة والفارسيّة والتركيّة العثمانيّة، وأكثرها عربيّ. ولا يفرد الرقم العربيّ.
أبها · Saudi Arabia
194 مخطوطة أكثرها في التفسير والحديث والفقه والعقيدة واللغة، بحسب دليل مكتبات المخطوطات (2001)، ص 87–88.
نابلس · Palestine
84 مخطوطة في خزائن زجاجيّة، بحسب دليل مكتبات المخطوطات (2001)، ص 187–188.
نابلس · Palestine
71 مخطوطة وخمسة مجاميع، بحسب دليل مكتبات المخطوطات (2001)، ص 188.
نابلس · Palestine
50 مخطوطة في اللغة والدين والتاريخ، بحسب دليل مكتبات المخطوطات (2001)، ص 186.
برقين (جنين) · Palestine
25 مخطوطة وخمسة مجاميع، بحسب دليل مكتبات المخطوطات (2001)، ص 187.
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.
Tunisia · Tunis
United Arab Emirates · Sharjah
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