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20 October 2026 · Jumada I 9, 1448 AH
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أعذبُ الشِّعرِ أكذبُه.
Source: مثلٌ سائرٌ في النقد العربيّ
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ابن مالك — «الألفيّة»
محمّد بن عبد الله، نظم النحوَ والصرفَ في ألف بيتٍ حفظها طلّابُ العربيّة قرونًا، وشُرحت عشراتِ الشروح. وله «تسهيل الفوائد». تُوفّي سنة ٦٧٢ للهجرة.
Source: «الخلاصة الألفيّة»
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السبب: تمييزُ «كم» الاستفهاميّة مفردٌ منصوب.
John A. Haywood
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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Diploma in Arabic for Non-Native Speakers
King Abdulaziz University — Arabic Language Institute for Non-Native Speakers
Saudi Arabia · Jeddah
InstituteLearn Arabic in Jordan Programme
Modern Language Center (MLC)
Jordan · Amman
UniversitySummer Arabic Language Institute — American Islamic College
American Islamic College
United States · Chicago
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
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
National bodyCritical Language Scholarship (CLS) — Arabic
U.S. Department of State
United States
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
UniversityBachelor of Arts in Arabic for Non-Native Speakers
University of Sharjah — College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
United Arab Emirates · Sharjah
UniversityFaculty of Arabic — International Islamic University Islamabad
International Islamic University Islamabad
Pakistan · Islamabad
Online platformArab Academy
Arab Academy (Cairo)
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.
Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts (Beit al-Hikma)
Academy for sciences, letters and arts whose work includes the Arabic language, translation, and editing and publishing heritage texts.
Tunisia · Carthage
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 centreCentre d'études orientales – Institut orientaliste de Louvain (CIOL)
UCLouvain
Oriental philology, including premodern Arabic texts and Copto-Arabic historiography.
Belgium · Louvain-la-Neuve
Research centreKing Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies
King Faisal Foundation
Islamic studies research centre with Arabic and heritage work: a peer-reviewed linguistics journal, a manuscript collection, and the Khizanat al-Turath manuscript-location database.
Saudi Arabia · Riyadh
University centre Also teaches ArabicDepartment of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Georgetown University
Georgetown University
Research and teaching in Arabic linguistics, Arabic literature and Islamic studies up to PhD.
United States · Washington, DC
University centreLaboratoire Langage et Société (URAC 56)
Faculty of Languages, Letters and Arts, Ibn Tofail University
Plurilingualism in Morocco and the state of Arabic within it, and oral literatures, through field research alongside doctoral theses.
Morocco · Kenitra
Research chair Also teaches ArabicKatedra Arabistyki i Islamistyki, Uniwersytet Warszawski
Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw
Research on classical and modern Arabic literature, Arabic linguistics and dialectology, and Arab-Islamic culture.
Poland · Warsaw
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.
United States · Provo
Arabic computingArabic Language Processing and Islamic Informatics Research Group
College of Computer and Information Sciences, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University
Arabic language processing: Arabic OCR, unsupervised learning of Arabic morphology, and sentiment analysis of Arabic content.
Saudi Arabia · Riyadh
Manuscripts and editionsFihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World
Bodleian Libraries (Oxford) and Cambridge University Library
Open union catalogue of Islamic and Middle Eastern manuscripts in UK libraries, searchable in Arabic and English.
United Kingdom · Oxford
For learners of Standard and Quranic Arabic: apps, websites and dictionaries, each with its level and language of instruction.
ATi Studios SRL (part of Pearson)
Teaches Modern Standard Arabic in short daily lessons, with speech recognition, a verb conjugator and a virtual conversation partner.
Understand Al Quran Academy (Hyderabad)
Teaches the most frequent words of the Quran through the daily prayer and the short surahs; its first course is nine hours in 19 sessions.
Al Jazeera Media Network
Lessons built on real news, media articles and literary texts across seven levels, with grammar lessons, a placement test and an Ask-the-Teacher form. Its «News in levels» section carries news on politics, the economy, health, culture, science, literature and more, written in Standard Arabic for learners at different levels.
LoreBrain
Free graded Arabic stories sorted by CEFR level from A0 to B2, with audio narration, vocabulary help and a quiz per story.
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