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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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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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