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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

Área de Estudios Árabes e Islámicos, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Departamento de Lingüística, Estudios Árabes, Hebreos, Vascos y de Asia Oriental, Facultad de Filología

Research on the Arabic language in its varieties, al-Andalus and classical Arabo-Islamic civilisation, and the contemporary Arab world.

Spain · Madrid

Reviewed: November 2026 Oriental studies institute or centre Also teaches Arabic

Departamento de Estudios Semíticos, Universidad de Granada

Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Granada

Department with an Arabic and Islamic Studies section and research groups on contemporary Arab studies and Arabic didactics.

Spain · Granada

Reviewed: November 2026 Oriental studies institute or centre Also teaches Arabic

Departamento de Estudios Árabes e Islámicos y Estudios Orientales, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Research lines include the Arabic language, Moroccan Arabic, Arabic–Spanish translation and Arabic literature.

Spain · Madrid

Reviewed: November 2026 Oriental studies institute or centre

Escuela de Estudios Árabes (EEA-CSIC)

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)

CSIC research institute in Granada for the history of Islam, medieval Spain, al-Andalus and Muslim Granada; Islamic architecture and archaeology; Arabic linguistics; and the manuscripts of al-Andalus. Its research groups include Philology, Historiography and Textual Criticism, and the Laboratory of Urban Archaeology and Architecture (LAAC).

Spain · Granada

Reviewed: November 2026 Oriental studies institute or centre Also teaches Arabic

Escuela de Traductores de Toledo

Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha

Research centre on Arabic/Hebrew–Spanish translation, training translators and publishing translated texts.

Spain · Toledo

Reviewed: November 2026 Oriental studies institute or centre

Instituto de Lenguas y Culturas del Mediterráneo y Oriente Próximo (ILC-CSIC)

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)

Studies Mediterranean languages and cultures from original texts; its Jewish and Islamic Studies department covers Arabic sources.

Spain · Madrid

Reviewed: November 2026