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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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Oriental studies institute or 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

Reviewed: November 2026 Oriental studies institute or centre

Abteilung für Islamwissenschaft und Nahostsprachen, University of Bonn

Institut für Orient- und Asienwissenschaften (IOA), University of Bonn

Works on texts, languages and cultures of the Arabic-, Persian- and Turkish-speaking regions, teaches Arabic as a BA minor, and has a professorship of Near Eastern languages (Arabic).

Germany · Bonn

Reviewed: November 2026 Oriental studies institute or centre

Lehrstuhl für Arabistik und Islamwissenschaft, Institut für den Nahen und Mittleren Osten, LMU Munich

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)

A chair working on Arabic philology, Arabic papyrology and digital Arabic teaching, with BA, MA and doctoral study.

Germany · Munich

Reviewed: November 2026 Oriental studies institute or centre 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

Reviewed: November 2026 Oriental studies institute or 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

Reviewed: November 2026 Oriental studies institute or 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

Reviewed: November 2026 Oriental studies institute or 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

Reviewed: November 2026 Oriental studies institute or 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

Reviewed: November 2026