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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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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

 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

 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

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

 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

 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

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

 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