Arabic language research centres

Language academy

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

Language academy

Algerian Academy of the Arabic Language

Presidency of the Republic of Algeria

Develops Arabic as a language of science and technology and oversees the al-Dhakhira al-Arabiya computerised corpus project.

Algeria · Algiers

Language academy

Iraqi Academy of Sciences

Council of Ministers of Iraq

A language and scholarly academy for the soundness of Arabic and the setting of terminology, with Kurdish and Syriac sections.

Iraq · Baghdad

Language academy

Jordan Academy of Arabic

Prime Ministry of Jordan

Safeguards Arabic, sets and Arabises terminology, holds an annual conference and oversees the Arabic Language Protection Law.

Jordan · Amman

Language academy

Sudanese Arabic Language Academy (Khartoum)

A language academy concerned with Arabisation and the soundness of Arabic in Sudan, holding symposia on it.

Sudan · Khartoum

Language academy

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

Language academy

Libyan Academy of the Arabic Language

Libyan Council of Ministers

Safeguards the integrity of Arabic, studies and unifies scientific and technical terminology, and publishes research and decisions.

Libya · Tripoli

Language academy

Arabic Language Academy in Sharjah

Government of Sharjah

Language academy that supervised the Historical Dictionary of Arabic, supports Arab language academies and hosts their union, with a library and the Al-Lisan Al-Arabi Centre.

United Arab Emirates · Sharjah

Language academy

Arabic Language Academy in Cairo

Sets terminology, publishes general and specialised dictionaries, edits heritage texts and holds an annual conference on Arabic.

Egypt · Cairo

Language academy

Arab Academy of Damascus

The oldest Arabic language academy; safeguards Arabic, sets terminology, publishes dictionaries and edits heritage texts.

Syria · Damascus

Language academy

Arabic Language Academy on the World Wide Web (Makkah)

Online language academy offering linguistic rulings (fatawa), decisions and articles, and issuing a journal and publications on Arabic.

Saudi Arabia · Makkah

Language academy Also teaches Arabic

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 project

Association of Arabic Lexicography (Tunis)

Lexicographic research on Arabic, especially the historical dictionary, through conferences and publications.

Tunisia · Tunis

Research centre

Arab Gulf Educational Centre for Arabic Language

Arab Bureau of Education for the Gulf States

Body of the Arab Bureau of Education preparing studies and research on improving Arabic teaching and learning, and organising the International Arabic Language Conference.

United Arab Emirates · Sharjah

Research centre

Institut français d'archéologie orientale (IFAO)

French Ministry of Higher Education and Research

Beside Egyptology: Arabic and Islamic studies, Arabic papyri and manuscripts, and a dictionary of Egyptian Arabic.

Egypt · Cairo

Research centre

Bayt al-Hikma — Department of Linguistic and Translation Studies

Bayt al-Hikma (House of Wisdom)

A research department of Bayt al-Hikma holding seminars and conferences on linguistics and translation, with its own journal and translated publications.

Iraq · Baghdad

Research centre

Ibn 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

Research centre

Scientific and Technical Research Centre for the Development of the Arabic Language (CRSTDLA)

Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research

Research in Arabic linguistics, lexicography, terminology and translation, computational linguistics, Arabic didactics and speech pathology.

Algeria · Algiers (Bouzareah)

Research centre

Centre d'études islamiques de Kairouan (CEIK)

Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research

Studies of Islamic civilisation — history, thought and sciences — manuscript editing, and the Kairouan Qur'ans and heritage.

Tunisia · Kairouan

Research centre

King 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

Research centre

Writing and Scripts Center (Calligraphy Center), Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Studies writing systems, inscriptions and calligraphy across the ages, Arabic script included, documenting them digitally and holding international forums.

Egypt · Alexandria

Research centre

Doha Historical Dictionary of Arabic

Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies

Historical dictionary recording Arabic words and the development of their meanings over time with dated citations, built on a large text corpus.

Qatar · Doha

Research centre Also teaches Arabic

Institute 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

Research centre Also teaches Arabic

Khartoum 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

Laboratory of Research in Algerian Language and Literature

Mohamed Khider University of Biskra

Research in language sciences and literature in Algeria.

Algeria · Biskra

University centre

Laboratory of Text Linguistics and Discourse Analysis

Faculty of Letters and Languages, Kasdi Merbah University of Ouargla

Research in text linguistics and discourse analysis of Arabic.

Algeria · Ouargla

University centre

Linguistics and Discourse Analysis Laboratory

University of Oran 1 Ahmed Ben Bella

Text linguistics and discourse analysis: describing, classifying and analysing ancient and modern texts and discourses.

Algeria · Oran

University centre

Laboratory of Applied Linguistics and Language Teaching

University of Algiers 2 Abou el Kacem Saadallah

Research in applied linguistics and language teaching, with particular attention to Arabic.

Algeria · Algiers

University centre

Arabic Language and Literature Laboratory

Faculty of Letters and Languages, University of Blida 2 Ali Lounici

Research in Arabic phonetics, lexicography and terminology.

Algeria · Blida

University centre

Laboratory of Dialects and Speech Processing

University of Oran 1 Ahmed Ben Bella

Studies Algerian Arabic dialects and their phonetics, speech processing, and language didactics.

Algeria · Oran

University centre

Laboratory of Language Practices in Algeria

Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi Ouzou

Studies language use in Algerian society, the place of Arabic within it, and language policy and planning.

Algeria · Tizi Ouzou

University centre

Discourse Analysis Laboratory

Faculty of Letters and Languages, Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi Ouzou

Research in linguistics, discourse analysis, rhetoric and language and literary studies.

Algeria · Tizi Ouzou

University centre

Laboratory of Didactics of Languages and Discourse Analysis

Faculty of Letters and Arts, Hassiba Ben Bouali University of Chlef

Linguistics, translation and language didactics, including socio- and psycholinguistics, language and technology, and Qur'anic studies.

Algeria · Chlef

University centre

Laboratoire 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

University centre

Center for the Revival of Arab Scientific Heritage

University of Baghdad

Edits and publishes Arabic scientific manuscripts, holds seminars on heritage and issues a peer-reviewed journal.

Iraq · Baghdad

University centre

Research Excellence Centre in Arabic Language

King Abdulaziz University

University centre directing research to priority Arabic-language issues and funding projects on language and identity, society, media and translation.

Saudi Arabia · Jeddah

University centre

Al-Khalil bin Ahmad Al-Farahidi Centre for Arabic and Humanities Studies

University of Nizwa

University centre for Arabic and humanities studies holding scholarly seminars, including one on Omani dialects, and publishing their papers in a peer-reviewed journal.

Oman · Nizwa

University centre

Arabic Language and Literature Research Centre

Umm Al-Qura University

University centre supporting research and projects in Arabic language sciences and literature, and setting research priorities for the university and society.

Saudi Arabia · Makkah

University centre

Arabic 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

University centre

Zai 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

University centre Also teaches Arabic

Institut de lettres orientales (ILO)

Université Saint-Joseph

A university institute of Arabic language and literature, home to the Centre Louis Pouzet and the Maurice Awad Chair, with a research publications list.

Lebanon · Beirut

University centre Also teaches Arabic

Institute for the History of Arabic Science

University of Aleppo

Studies the history of science among the Arabs, edits and publishes scientific manuscripts, and awards master's and doctoral degrees in the field.

Syria · Aleppo

Research chair

Prof. 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

Research chair

Chair 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 computing

Oujda NLP Team

Computer Science Research Laboratory, Faculty of Sciences, Mohammed First University

Builds Arabic NLP resources and tools: morphological analysis, automatic diacritisation, parsing and corpora, including the AlKhalil tools.

Morocco · Oujda

Arabic computing

Natural 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

Arabic computing

NLP Research Groups, King Hussein School of Computing Sciences

Princess Sumaya University for Technology

Arabic NLP: semantics, machine translation and text mining, with an Arabic dependency treebank and paraphrase benchmark datasets.

Jordan · Amman

Arabic computing

ALELM — 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

Arabic computing

iWAN Research Group

King Saud University

Arabic language technology: spell-checking, Arabic corpora, a linguistics terminology dictionary, and assistive and educational applications.

Saudi Arabia · Riyadh

Arabic computing

ANLP Research Group, MIRACL Laboratory

MIRACL Laboratory, University of Sfax

Arabic NLP: text analysis, automatic summarisation, question answering, spoken dialogue systems and Tunisian dialect.

Tunisia · Sfax

Arabic computing

Arabic 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

Arabic computing

Arabic 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

Arabic computing

SinaLab for Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence

Birzeit University

Builds the Arabic Ontology, digital lexicons, annotated dialect corpora and tools for Arabic natural language processing.

Palestine · Birzeit

Arabic computing

CAMeL Lab (Computational Approaches to Modeling Language), NYU Abu Dhabi

New York University Abu Dhabi

Research lab in computational processing of Arabic and its dialects, developing CAMeL Tools and open corpora and resources.

United Arab Emirates · Abu Dhabi

Arabic computing

Arabic Language Technology Center (ALTEC)

A research consortium on Arabic language technology joining universities and companies; builds language resources and runs conferences, competitions and training schools.

Egypt · Cairo

Arabic computing

Arabic Artificial Intelligence Centre (Thakaa Al-Arabiyya)

King Salman Global Academy for Arabic Language

Centre for AI-based Arabic language processing, with labs for building and annotating language data and developing models and tools for researchers.

Saudi Arabia · Riyadh

Manuscripts and editions

National Manuscripts Centre

Ministry of Culture and Arts

Inventories, catalogues, collects, restores and digitises Algerian manuscripts, and makes them available to researchers.

Algeria · Adrar

Manuscripts and editions

Mauritanian Institute for Research and Training in Heritage and Culture (IMRFPC)

Mauritanian Ministry of Culture

Collects, catalogues and digitises Mauritanian manuscripts, including those of Chinguetti, Ouadane and Tichitt.

Mauritania · Nouakchott

Manuscripts and editions

Heritage Library, Qatar National Library

Qatar National Library

Library of rare heritage materials holding over 3,500 manuscripts in Islamic sciences, Arabic and other fields, some digitised for researchers.

Qatar · Doha

Manuscripts and editions

National Library of Syria (formerly Al-Assad National Library)

Syrian Ministry of Culture

Keeps Arabic manuscripts, including the Zahiriyya collection, and shares digital images of them with researchers in and outside Syria.

Syria · Damascus

Manuscripts and editions

Supreme Council for Heritage Revival, al-Abbas Holy Shrine

Al-Abbas Holy Shrine

Oversees heritage centres in Karbala, Hillah and Basra that edit and publish manuscripts, and issues peer-reviewed heritage journals.

Iraq · Najaf

Manuscripts and editions Also teaches Arabic

Beit Al Quran

Museum and research library holding Qur'anic manuscripts from many periods and regions, with rooms for researchers and a school of Qur'anic studies.

Bahrain · Manama

Manuscripts and editions

Iraqi House of Manuscripts

Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Antiquities

Preserves, restores and digitally documents tens of thousands of manuscripts and makes them available to researchers.

Iraq · Baghdad

Manuscripts and editions

King Abdulaziz Foundation for Research and Archives (Darah)

Research foundation on the history of Arabia that collects and restores manuscripts and documents and publishes edited texts.

Saudi Arabia · Riyadh

Manuscripts and editions

Imam Zayd bin Ali Cultural Foundation

Collects, digitises and makes available Yemeni manuscripts held in private libraries, and publishes texts from the Zaydi heritage.

Yemen · Sanaa

Manuscripts and editions

King Abdulaziz Complex for Endowment Libraries

Gathers, preserves, digitises and catalogues endowed libraries and their manuscripts, and supports research on editing and publishing manuscripts.

Saudi Arabia · Madinah

Manuscripts and editions

Manuscripts Laboratory

Faculty of Human Sciences, University of Algiers 2

Studies Maghrebi manuscripts — their history, cataloguing and preservation — across history, library science, archives and language.

Algeria · Algiers

Manuscripts and editions

Laboratory of Algerian Manuscripts in Africa

Ahmed Draia University of Adrar

Inventories, catalogues and studies Algerian manuscripts in Algeria and West Africa, including the Touat manuscripts.

Algeria · Adrar

Manuscripts and editions

Raqqada Manuscripts Conservation Laboratory

National Heritage Institute (INP)

Restores and treats the Kairouan parchments and manuscripts, and inventories, catalogues and digitises them.

Tunisia · Raqqada (Kairouan)

Manuscripts and editions

Centre de documentation et de recherches arabes chrétiennes (CEDRAC)

Université Saint-Joseph — Faculty of Religious Sciences

Edits and studies Christian Arabic manuscripts, researches the intellectual history of Christian Arabic traditions, and trains researchers.

Lebanon · Beirut

Manuscripts and editions

Center of Papyrological Studies and Inscriptions

Faculty of Archaeology, Ain Shams University

Studies papyri, inscriptions and writing across periods, Arabic inscriptions on buildings among them, through a peer-reviewed journal and conferences.

Egypt · Cairo

Manuscripts and editions

Centre for Studies, Research and Heritage Revival

Rabita Mohammadia of Ulema

Editing and publishing Moroccan and Arabic manuscripts, and research on the textual heritage and editing methods.

Morocco

Manuscripts and editions

Manuscripts Center, Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Studies Arabic-Islamic manuscript heritage through cataloguing and editing, holds conferences and courses, and keeps the Alexandria Municipal Library manuscripts.

Egypt · Alexandria

Manuscripts and editions

Centre for Manuscripts, Heritage and Documents

Private centre collecting manuscripts in original and copy, cataloguing them, and publishing catalogues, bibliographies and heritage books.

Kuwait · Kuwait City (Jabriya)

Manuscripts and editions

Center for Documents, Manuscripts and Bilad al-Sham Studies

University of Jordan

Preserves, catalogues and opens to researchers manuscripts, documents and Sharia court registers, and publishes studies on Bilad al-Sham.

Jordan · Amman

Manuscripts and editions

Heritage Editing Center, Egyptian National Library and Archives

General Egyptian Authority for the National Library and Archives (Dar al-Kutub)

Edits Arabic heritage texts, runs specialised courses in textual editing and has held an annual conference on the field since 2019.

Egypt · Cairo

Manuscripts and editions

Juma Al Majid Center for Culture and Heritage

Centre collecting Arabic and Islamic manuscripts in original and copy, cataloguing and restoring them, making them available to researchers and publishing on heritage.

United Arab Emirates · Dubai

Manuscripts and editions

Oman Thakira Centre

Scholarly institution for Omani intellectual heritage: collecting, digitising and restoring manuscripts, cataloguing them in Al-Khizana Al-Omaniya, and editing and publishing texts.

Oman

Manuscripts and editions

Institute of Arabic Manuscripts

Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO)

Catalogues, digitises and conserves Arabic manuscripts, publishes critical editions and library catalogues, and runs training in codicology.

Egypt · Cairo

Manuscripts and editions

Institute of Manuscripts and Revival of Islamic Heritage

Umm Al-Qura University

Collects, catalogues, edits and publishes Islamic heritage texts, Arabic-language works among them, and keeps the university's manuscripts.

Saudi Arabia · Makkah

Manuscripts and editions

Al-Ahqaf Library of Manuscripts

Preserves, catalogues and opens to researchers Hadrami manuscripts gathered from Tarim family libraries and the Qu'aiti sultan's library.

Yemen · Tarim

Manuscripts and editions

Al-Azhar Library

Al-Azhar

Keeps, restores, catalogues and digitises Al-Azhar's manuscripts, and gathers manuscripts from within and beyond the Islamic world.

Egypt · Cairo

Manuscripts and editions

Al-Rawda al-Haydariyya Library — Heritage Revival Division

Imam Ali Holy Shrine

Edits and publishes manuscripts, reprints rare books, and catalogues the library's manuscripts and makes them available digitally.

Iraq · Najaf

Manuscripts and editions

Oman National Library (successor of the Manuscripts Department)

Ministry of Culture, Sports and Youth

Preserves, restores and digitises Omani manuscripts, having absorbed the Manuscripts Department that began in 1975 as a collecting body.

Oman · Muscat

Arabization and terminology

Arab Center for Arabization, Translation, Authorship and Publication (ACATAP)

Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO)

Supports Arabic-medium university education by translating, writing and publishing textbooks, and holds conferences on Arabisation and translation.

Syria · Damascus

Arabization and terminology

Arab Organization for Translation

An independent non-profit that translates key works in the sciences and humanities into Arabic and sets standards for translation and terminology.

Lebanon · Beirut

Arabization and terminology

Higher Authority for Arabization (Sudan)

Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research

Oversees the Arabisation of higher education in Sudan and terminology work; co-sponsored the 12th Arabisation Conference in Khartoum.

Sudan · Khartoum

Arabization and terminology

Institute of Studies and Research for Arabization (IERA)

Mohammed V University in Rabat

Research on Arabization, terminology and lexicography, Arabic linguistics and language computing.

Morocco · Rabat

Arabization and terminology

King Abdullah Institute for Translation and Arabization

Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University

University institute for translation and Arabization that has issued an Arabization plan and publishes translations and specialised terminology glossaries.

Saudi Arabia · Riyadh

Arabization and terminology

Arabization Coordination Bureau (ALECSO)

Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO)

Coordinates Arabization across the Arab world, preparing unified specialised dictionaries and standardising scientific and technical terminology.

Morocco · Rabat

Language council

Union of Arab Language and Scientific Academies

Brings the Arab language academies together to coordinate and unify terminology, holding joint symposia and issuing reports.

Egypt · Cairo

Language council

High Council for the Arabic Language (Algeria)

Presidency of the Republic of Algeria

Monitors and promotes the use of Arabic in administration, education and science, and publishes translations, dictionaries and studies.

Algeria · Algiers

Language council

International Council for the Arabic Language

Independent international organisation that holds the annual International Conference on the Arabic Language and seminars, and publishes their proceedings.

Lebanon · Beirut

Language council

Council of the Arabic Tongue (Mauritania)

Serves Arabic in Mauritania through scholarly seminars and cooperation with language academies, including the Sharjah academy.

Mauritania · Nouakchott

Language council

Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre

Department of Culture and Tourism — Abu Dhabi

Government Arabic language centre funding research grants, building the BAREC readability corpus and a digital lexicon, and running publishing programmes and awards.

United Arab Emirates · Abu Dhabi

Other body

Saudi Scientific Society for the Arabic Language

Scholarly society of Arabic-language academics that holds symposia and general assemblies on questions of the language and its literature.

Saudi Arabia

Other body

Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB)

Max Weber Foundation

A German research institute on the Near East and the Arab world; projects include Arabic letter semiotics and Arabic literary history, and it publishes text editions.

Lebanon · Beirut

Other body Also teaches Arabic

French Institute of the Near East (Ifpo)

French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs and CNRS

A research institute with a department of medieval and modern Arabic studies, publishing studies and holding seminars on Arabic history and literature.

Lebanon · Beirut

Other body

Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO)

League of Arab States

Arab organisation overseeing Arabization and manuscripts bodies, working on language policy and a common reference framework for Arabic.

Tunisia · Tunis

Other body

Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought

An institute of Islamic thought whose projects include the Comprehensive Catalogue of Arabic-Islamic Manuscripts.

Jordan · Amman

Other body Also teaches Arabic

ICESCO Center of Arabic for Non-Arabic Speakers

Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ICESCO)

Publishes a peer-reviewed series of studies on teaching Arabic to non-Arabic speakers, runs teacher-training programmes and the Arabic Language Riwaq forum.

Morocco · Rabat

Other body

Hamad Al-Jasser Cultural Centre

Cultural centre at Dar Al-Arab issuing Al-Arab journal on Arabic heritage, language and historical geography, and holding lectures and seminars.

Saudi Arabia · Riyadh

Other body

Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies (IDEO)

Dominican Order

A research centre on the Arabic-Islamic heritage and its primary texts from the first ten centuries of Islam, with a specialised library.

Egypt · Cairo

Other body

Institut des Belles Lettres Arabes (IBLA)

Humanities and literature of Tunisia, the Maghreb and Arabic-speaking countries, including Tunisian Arabic (Derja).

Tunisia · Tunis

Other body Also teaches Arabic

Al-Babtain Central Library for Arabic Poetry

Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain Cultural Foundation

Library specialised in Arabic poetry that collects and catalogues its collections and sources, republishes rare books and holds seminars.

Kuwait · Kuwait City

Dictionary project

Arabic and Latin Glossary (ALGloss)

Institut für Philosophie, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg

Online dictionary of medieval Arabic–Latin translation vocabulary, with a companion corpus (ALCorpus).

Germany · Würzburg

Dictionary project

Glossarium 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 project

The 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 project

VICAV – Vienna Corpus of Arabic Varieties

ACDH-CH, Austrian Academy of Sciences; Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna

Digital platform for Arabic dialects: dictionaries, sample texts, linguistic profiles and bibliography.

Austria · Vienna

Dictionary project

CWALM – A lexical corpus-based model of Contemporary Written Arabic

Roma Tre University, with ILC-CNR "A. Zampolli" and IULM University

Corpus-based lexical model of contemporary written Arabic for lexicography and language teaching.

Italy · Rome

Research centre Also teaches Arabic

Pontificio Istituto di Studi Arabi e d'Islamistica (PISAI)

Holy See (Missionaries of Africa)

Higher-education and research institute in Arabic language and Islamic studies, awarding degrees.

Italy · Rome

Research centre

Orientální ústav AV ČR (Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences)

Czech Academy of Sciences

Research institute whose Middle East department studies Arabic and Islamic cultures, texts and history.

Czech Republic · Prague

Research centre

Orijentalni institut u Sarajevu

University of Sarajevo

Oriental philology research, incl. Bosnian writing in Arabic, with a manuscript collection and archive.

Bosnia and Herzegovina · Sarajevo

Research centre

Instituto 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

Bibliotheca Arabica – Neue Geschichte der arabischen Literatur

Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, with Leipzig University

Long-term academy project on Arabic literature 1150–1850 through manuscript studies; builds the KHIZANA platform.

Germany · Leipzig

Research centre

Escuela de Estudios Árabes (EEA-CSIC)

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)

CSIC research institute for Arabic and Andalusi studies: texts, history, architecture and written heritage.

Spain · Granada

Research centre Also teaches Arabic

Escuela de Traductores de Toledo

Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha

Research centre on Arabic/Hebrew–Spanish translation, training translators and publishing translated texts.

Spain · Toledo

Research centre

İslam 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 centre

Centre d'études orientales – Institut orientaliste de Louvain (CIOL)

UCLouvain

Oriental philology, including premodern Arabic texts and Copto-Arabic historiography.

Belgium · Louvain-la-Neuve

Research centre

Centre de recherches Moyen-Orient Méditerranée (CERMOM)

Inalco

Research unit on Middle Eastern literatures and languages, including Arabic linguistics and dialects such as Levantine.

France · Paris

Research centre

ALiDiM – 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

Corpus Coranicum

Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (BBAW)

Documents the Qur'an's text in manuscripts and oral readings, builds an intertext database and a commentary.

Germany · Potsdam

Research centre

KITAB – Knowledge, Information Technology, & the Arabic Book

Aga Khan University, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC)

Computational detection of text reuse across the premodern Arabic written tradition.

United Kingdom · London

Research centre

Institut de recherches et d'études sur les mondes arabes et musulmans (IREMAM)

CNRS & Aix-Marseille Université

Multidisciplinary institute with a research pole on Arabic linguistics, sociolinguistics and dialectology.

France · Aix-en-Provence

Research centre

Istituto per l'Oriente C. A. Nallino (IPOCAN)

Research institute on the Arab and Muslim world, with a specialised library and Arabic-studies journals.

Italy · Rome

Research centre

Ziya Bunyadov Institute of Oriental Studies

Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences

An oriental studies institute with an Arabic philology department, working on Arabic language, literature and sources; it publishes «Azerbaijan Oriental Studies».

Azerbaijan · Baku

Research centre

Instituto de Lenguas y Culturas del Mediterráneo y Oriente Próximo (ILC-CSIC)

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)

Studies Mediterranean languages and cultures from original texts; its Jewish and Islamic Studies department covers Arabic sources.

Spain · Madrid

University centre Also teaches Arabic

Arabic Studies, Leiden Institute for Area Studies

Leiden University

Research on the history of Arabic, ancient Arabian epigraphy and philology, with a major Oriental manuscript collection.

Netherlands · Leiden

University centre Also teaches Arabic

Semitic Languages, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University

Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University

Research on Arabic syntax, modern dialects, manuscript textual criticism, literature and media.

Sweden · Uppsala

University centre Also teaches Arabic

Orientalisches Institut, Universität Leipzig

Faculty of History, Art and Area Studies, Leipzig University

Research and teaching in Arabic and Islamic studies, including Arabic linguistics, translation and the university's manuscripts.

Germany · Leipzig

University centre Also teaches Arabic

Área de Estudios Árabes e Islámicos, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Departamento de Lingüística, Estudios Árabes, Hebreos, Vascos y de Asia Oriental, Facultad de Filología

Research on the Arabic language in its varieties, al-Andalus and classical Arabo-Islamic civilisation, and the contemporary Arab world.

Spain · Madrid

University centre Also teaches Arabic

Near and Middle East Section, SOAS University of London

School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, SOAS University of London

Arabic linguistics and contact-induced change, classical and modern Arabic literature, Qur'anic studies and early Arabic historiography.

United Kingdom · London

University centre Also teaches Arabic

Dipartimento 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 centre Also teaches Arabic

Dipartimento Asia Africa e Mediterraneo, Università di Napoli L'Orientale

Università degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale

Research in Arabic language, literature, dialectology and metrics within Asian, African and Mediterranean studies.

Italy · Naples

University centre Also teaches Arabic

Departamento de Estudios Semíticos, Universidad de Granada

Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Granada

Department with an Arabic and Islamic Studies section and research groups on contemporary Arab studies and Arabic didactics.

Spain · Granada

University centre Also teaches Arabic

Department of Semitic and Arabic Studies, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)

Institute of Oriental Studies, ELTE

Research in Semitic philology, Arabic studies, Sufism and Andalusian culture.

Hungary · Budapest

University centre Also teaches Arabic

Institut für Orientalistik, Universität Wien

Universität Wien

Arabic linguistics and comparative dialectology (incl. Arabic in southern Turkey); offers an MA in Arabic Linguistics.

Austria · Vienna

University centre Also teaches Arabic

Department 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 centre Also teaches Arabic

Departamento de Estudios Árabes e Islámicos y Estudios Orientales, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Research lines include the Arabic language, Moroccan Arabic, Arabic–Spanish translation and Arabic literature.

Spain · Madrid

University centre Also teaches Arabic

Кафедра арабской филологии, Институт стран Азии и Африки МГУ

Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Department of Arabic language and literature within the Philology Division, combining teaching and research.

Russia · Moscow

University centre Also teaches Arabic

Department 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 centre Also teaches Arabic

Katedra Blízkého východu, Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy

Faculty of Arts, Charles University

Research on Middle Eastern languages, incl. a lexicographic database of Bedouin dialects and Arabic dialect studies.

Czech Republic · Prague

University centre Also teaches Arabic

Department of Arabic Philology, Saint Petersburg State University

Faculty of Asian and African Studies, Saint Petersburg State University

Arabic grammar and phonology, Egyptian, Iraqi, Syrian and Saudi dialects, and classical Arabic documents, in the tradition of the Rosen–Krachkovsky school.

Russia · Saint Petersburg

University centre Also teaches Arabic

Department of Arabic Philology, Kazan Federal University

Institute of International Relations (Oriental Studies), Kazan Federal University

Continues the Kazan school of Arabic studies (since 1807), with work on cultural linguistics, Egyptian Arabic, reading Arabic manuscripts and the Arabic poetry of Transoxania.

Russia · Kazan

University centre Also teaches Arabic

Department of Middle Eastern & Asian Languages & Cultures, University of Malta

Faculty of Arts, University of Malta

Research on Arabic dialectology, Qur'anic lexicology, Arabic sociolinguistics and Arabic–Maltese links; offers a research MA in Arabic.

Malta · Msida

University centre Also teaches Arabic

Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford

University of Oxford

Research in Arabic language, literature and civilisation; home of the Laudian Chair of Arabic (1636).

United Kingdom · Oxford

University centre

İstanbul Üniversitesi Şarkiyat Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi

İstanbul Üniversitesi

Research on Arabic and Persian philology and Urdu, and on material about Turkish history in Arabic and Persian sources.

Türkiye · Istanbul

University centre Also teaches Arabic

Centro de Estudios Árabes Eugenio Chahuán, Universidad de Chile

Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, Universidad de Chile

Teaches Arabic and researches Arabic as a second language and classical Arab studies; publishes Revista de Estudios Árabes.

Chile · Santiago

University centre

Centrul de Studii Arabe, Universitatea din București (Center for Arab Studies)

Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest

Research on Classical and dialectal Arabic, Arabic literature and Islamic thought; publishes Romano-Arabica since 2001.

Romania · Bucharest

University centre Also teaches Arabic

Centre 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 centre

Pusat Kajian Bahasa Arab dan Tamadun Islam, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

Fakulti Pengajian Islam, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

One of five research centres of the Faculty of Islamic Studies, covering Arabic language, literature and culture and Islamic civilisation.

Malaysia · Bangi

University centre Also teaches Arabic

Semitistik – 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

University centre Also teaches Arabic

Instytut Orientalistyki, Uniwersytet Jagielloński – Arabic Studies

Jagiellonian University

Research and teaching in Modern Standard Arabic and its dialects, in literature and linguistics.

Poland · Kraków

University centre Also teaches Arabic

Institut für Arabistik, Freie Universität Berlin

Fachbereich Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften, Freie Universität Berlin

Arabic literature from pre-Islamic times to the present; runs the Kalila wa-Dimna project, the kalimat project on key terms of the Arabic manuscript tradition, and an edition of Aristotle's Poetics in Arabic and other translations.

Germany · Berlin

University centre Also teaches Arabic

Seminar für Arabistik/Islamwissenschaft I, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Research on classical and modern Arabic literature, Arabic theatre, hadith and Arabic-Islamic philosophy.

Germany · Göttingen

University centre Also teaches Arabic

Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies (IAIS), University of Exeter

University of Exeter

Multidisciplinary institute including linguists, with strength in Arabic language and literature.

United Kingdom · Exeter

University centre Also teaches Arabic

Institut für Arabistik und Islamwissenschaft, Universität Münster

Universität Münster

Arabic language and literature research, incl. an edition of Ibn Nubātah's works and an Encyclopedia of Arabic Stylistic Devices.

Germany · Münster

Research chair Also teaches Arabic

Katedra 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 chair Also teaches Arabic

Lehrstuhl 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

Arabic computing

Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC)

University of Pennsylvania

Creates and distributes language resources, including major Arabic corpora, the Penn Arabic Treebank and dialect speech data.

United States · Philadelphia

Arabic computing

The Quranic Arabic Corpus

University of Leeds

Annotated linguistic corpus of the Qur'an with morphological tagging, syntactic treebank and root lexicon.

United Kingdom · Leeds

Arabic computing

Prague 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 computing

arabiCorpus

College of Humanities, Brigham Young University

Searchable Arabic text corpus (press, novels, the Qur'an) for usage and vocabulary research.

United States · Provo

Arabic computing

Computer Research Center of Islamic Sciences (CRCIS – Noor)

Digitises Islamic-heritage sources, mostly Arabic, and builds text libraries and search tools.

Iran · Qom

Manuscripts and editions

Fihrist: 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

Manuscripts and editions

Section arabe – Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes (IRHT)

CNRS

Studies, catalogues and digitises Arabic manuscripts, incl. French public libraries and Timbuktu collections.

France · Aubervilliers (Paris)

Manuscripts and editions

DREAMSEA – Digital Repository of Endangered and Affected Manuscripts in Southeast Asia

PPIM, UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta, with CSMC, Universität Hamburg

Digitises and catalogues endangered manuscripts in Southeast Asia, including Arabic Islamic manuscripts from pesantren, with open access.

Indonesia · Jakarta

Manuscripts and editions

Qalamos – Connecting Manuscript Traditions

Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and Leipzig University Library

Union portal for metadata and images of Asian and African manuscripts in German institutions, including Arabic.

Germany · Berlin

Manuscripts and editions

The Islamic Manuscript Association (TIMA)

Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge

International non-profit association for the preservation, cataloguing and access of Islamic manuscript collections; conferences and workshops.

United Kingdom · Cambridge

Manuscripts and editions

SAVAMA-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

Manuscripts and editions

Dairatul Maarif il Osmania

Osmania University, Hyderabad

Edits and publishes Arabic manuscripts in Islamic sciences, philosophy, Sufism and science; about 240 titles in some 800 volumes.

India · Hyderabad

Manuscripts and editions

Arewa House – Centre for Historical Documentation and Research

Ahmadu Bello University

Preserves and digitises Nigerian Arabic and Ajami manuscripts; holds about 1,600 manuscripts.

Nigeria · Kaduna

Manuscripts and editions

Türkiye Yazma Eserler Kurumu Başkanlığı

Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Türkiye

Runs manuscript libraries such as Süleymaniye, acquires and preserves manuscripts, and publishes editions, many Arabic.

Türkiye · Istanbul

Manuscripts and editions

Oriental Manuscripts Fund, Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography, Dagestan Federal Research Centre RAS

Dagestan Federal Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences

Largest collection of oriental manuscripts in the North Caucasus, mostly Arabic (grammar, lexicography, law, history, medicine), enlarged by field expeditions.

Russia · Makhachkala

Manuscripts and editions

Oriental Collections, St. St. Cyril and Methodius National Library

National Library of Bulgaria

Holds and catalogues some 3,000 Arabic manuscripts alongside Ottoman and Persian ones; catalogues include one on hadith sciences.

Bulgaria · Sofia

Manuscripts and editions

Département des Manuscrits Arabes et Ajami (MARA), Institut de Recherches en Sciences Humaines (IRSH)

Institut de Recherches en Sciences Humaines, Université Abdou Moumouni

Collects and studies Arabic and Ajami manuscripts from family libraries; about 4,000 described in an eight-volume catalogue.

Niger · Niamey

Manuscripts and editions

Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation – Centre for the Study of Islamic Manuscripts

Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation

Surveys, images, catalogues, edits and publishes Islamic manuscripts, mostly Arabic.

United Kingdom · London

Manuscripts and editions

Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative (ISMI)

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

Database of authors, works and manuscript witnesses in the Islamicate exact sciences, mostly in Arabic.

Germany · Berlin

Manuscripts and editions

Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML)

Saint John's University

Digitises endangered manuscripts, including an Islamic (largely Arabic) manuscripts programme in Mali, Jerusalem and Harar.

United States · Collegeville, Minnesota

Manuscripts and editions

Princeton Geniza Lab

Princeton University

Transcribes and catalogues Cairo Geniza documents, mostly in Judaeo-Arabic, in a public database.

United States · Princeton

Manuscripts and editions

Islamology Department, Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire Cheikh Anta Diop (IFAN)

IFAN Cheikh Anta Diop, Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar

Holds and studies a manuscript collection, mostly Arabic, with Ajami texts in Pulaar and Wolof.

Senegal · Dakar

Manuscripts and editions

Imom Buxoriy xalqaro ilmiy-tadqiqot markazi

Cabinet of Ministers of Uzbekistan

Collects, restores and studies hadith and heritage manuscripts; has a manuscripts department, museum and library.

Uzbekistan · Samarkand

Manuscripts and editions

Centre of Arabic Documentation, Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan

Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan

Founded by John Hunwick to microfilm, catalogue and study Arabic manuscripts from northern Nigeria; holds Arabic and Ajami collections.

Nigeria · Ibadan

Manuscripts and editions Also teaches Arabic

Centre for Islamic Studies, Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto

Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto

Research on the writings of the Sokoto jihad scholars; collects and microfilms Arabic manuscripts of the Sokoto Caliphate.

Nigeria · Sokoto

Manuscripts and editions

Written Heritage Research Center (Mirās-e Maktub)

Edits, publishes and catalogues Arabic and Persian manuscripts and studies codicology.

Iran · Tehran

Manuscripts and editions

Centre 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

Manuscripts and editions

Tombouctou Manuscripts Project

Institute for Humanities in Africa (HUMA), University of Cape Town

Studies, translates and digitises Timbuktu's Arabic manuscripts and the history of the book in West Africa.

South Africa · Cape Town

Manuscripts and editions

Abu Rayhon Beruniy nomidagi Sharqshunoslik instituti

Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan

Holds, studies and catalogues about 26,000 manuscripts in Arabic, Persian and Turkic.

Uzbekistan · Tashkent

Manuscripts and editions Also teaches Arabic

Institut des Hautes Études et de Recherche Islamique Ahmed Baba (IHERI-ABT)

Government of Mali

Collects, restores, digitises and studies the Timbuktu manuscripts, trains Arabic teachers, and publishes Revue Sankoré.

Mali · Timbuktu

Manuscripts and editions

Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA)

Northwestern University

Scholarship on Islamic learning in Africa; catalogues and translates African Arabic and Ajami manuscripts.

United States · Evanston

Manuscripts and editions

AMEA Məhəmməd Füzuli adına Əlyazmalar İnstitutu

Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences

Collects, preserves, catalogues and publishes manuscripts, with a dedicated catalogue of Arabic manuscripts.

Azerbaijan · Baku

Manuscripts and editions

Институт восточных рукописей РАН (Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, RAS)

Russian Academy of Sciences

Holds and studies a large collection of Oriental manuscripts, including Arabic ones such as an early Qur'an codex.

Russia · St Petersburg

Manuscripts and editions

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Arabic Persian Research Institute

Department of Art and Culture, Government of Rajasthan

Preserves, catalogues and publishes handlists and studies of Arabic and Persian manuscripts.

India · Tonk

Manuscripts and editions

Gazi Husrev-begova biblioteka

Library holding about 17,000 manuscript works in Arabic, Turkish and Persian; catalogues and publishes studies.

Bosnia and Herzegovina · Sarajevo

Manuscripts and editions

Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library

Ministry of Culture, Government of India

Library of about 21,000 manuscripts, half in Arabic; catalogues, digitises and publishes catalogues.

India · Patna

Manuscripts and editions

Rampur Raza Library

Ministry of Culture, Government of India

Library of about 17,000 manuscripts in Arabic, Persian and other languages, with a multi-volume Arabic catalogue.

India · Rampur

Manuscripts and editions

Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit

Cambridge University Library

Conservation, cataloguing and research of Cairo Genizah fragments, many in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic.

United Kingdom · Cambridge

Other body

The International Society for Arabic Papyrology (ISAP)

Arabic papyrology: checklists of editions and collections, a papyrology school, a database and periodic conferences.

International · Princeton

Other body

Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (DMG)

The main society of German orientalists, with Arabic philology among its core fields; publishes ZDMG (since 1847) and sponsored the Wörterbuch der klassischen arabischen Sprache.

Germany · Halle (Saale)

Other body

Iranian Association of Arabic Language and Literature

Scholarly association publishing a peer-reviewed quarterly on Arabic language and literature since 2004.

Iran

Other body

Korean Association of Arabic Language and Literature (한국아랍어아랍문학회)

Scholarly association for research on Arabic language and literature in Korea, with a peer-reviewed submission system.

South Korea

Other body

Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants (UEAI)

Association of European scholars of the languages, history and cultures of the Arab-Islamic world; biennial congress.

International

Other body

International Association of Arabic Dialectology (AIDA)

Association of researchers on Arabic dialects; holds a conference every two years and awards small grants to young researchers.

International

Other body

SIGARAB – ACL Special Interest Group on Arabic Natural Language Processing

Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

Forum for Arabic NLP research across Arabic varieties; sponsors the ArabicNLP conference and school and supports the Masader data catalogue.

International

Other body

Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia (OCIANA)

Khalili Research Centre, University of Oxford

Corpus of pre-Islamic inscriptions of north and central Arabia in Ancient North Arabian scripts and Old Arabic.

United Kingdom · Oxford

Other body

Arabic Linguistics Society (ALS)

University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (mailing address)

Non-profit society for research in modern Arabic linguistics (theoretical, historical, sociolinguistic, corpus and computational); annual symposium and proceedings.

United States · Milwaukee

Other body

Lajnah Pentashihan Mushaf Al-Qur'an (LPMQ)

Research, Development and Training Agency, Ministry of Religious Affairs of Indonesia

Verifies Qur'an print texts before publication and studies old manuscript Qur'ans of the archipelago.

Indonesia · Jakarta

Other body

Open Islamicate Texts Initiative (OpenITI)

International multi-university collaboration

Open machine-readable corpus of premodern Arabic and Persian texts and Arabic-script OCR tools.

International

Other body

WIBARAB – What is Bedouin-Type Arabic?

Institute of Oriental Studies, University of Vienna; ACDH-CH, Austrian Academy of Sciences

ERC Advanced Grant project on Bedouin-type Arabic dialects, with fieldwork and a TEI database mapping dialect features across the Arabic-speaking world.

Austria · Vienna

Other body

Thesaurus d'épigraphie islamique

Fondation Max van Berchem

Database of Arabic, Persian and Turkish inscriptions up to 1000 AH, about 49,000 records with photographs.

Switzerland · Geneva

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Arabic language research centres