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

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

Reviewed: November 2026