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Arabic language research centres

Bodies that do research on the Arabic language and its sciences: language academies, major dictionary projects, research centres and university units, research chairs, Arabic computational-linguistics labs, manuscript and critical-edition centres, and Arabization and terminology bodies — in the Arab world and beyond.

This directory is for research on Arabic. Programmes that teach Arabic to non-native speakers have their own: the Arabic programmes directory

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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

 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

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

 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

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

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

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

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

 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

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

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

 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)