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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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Language academy

Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts (Beit al-Hikma)

Academy for sciences, letters and arts whose work includes the Arabic language, translation, and editing and publishing heritage texts.

Tunisia · Carthage

 Dictionary project

Association of Arabic Lexicography (Tunis)

Lexicographic research on Arabic, especially the historical dictionary, through conferences and publications.

Tunisia · Tunis

 Research centre

Centre d'études islamiques de Kairouan (CEIK)

Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research

Studies of Islamic civilisation — history, thought and sciences — manuscript editing, and the Kairouan Qur'ans and heritage.

Tunisia · Kairouan

 Arabic computing

ANLP Research Group, MIRACL Laboratory

MIRACL Laboratory, University of Sfax

Arabic NLP: text analysis, automatic summarisation, question answering, spoken dialogue systems and Tunisian dialect.

Tunisia · Sfax

 Manuscripts and editions

Raqqada Manuscripts Conservation Laboratory

National Heritage Institute (INP)

Restores and treats the Kairouan parchments and manuscripts, and inventories, catalogues and digitises them.

Tunisia · Raqqada (Kairouan)

 Other body

Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO)

League of Arab States

Arab organisation overseeing Arabization and manuscripts bodies, working on language policy and a common reference framework for Arabic.

Tunisia · Tunis

 Other body

Institut des Belles Lettres Arabes (IBLA)

Humanities and literature of Tunisia, the Maghreb and Arabic-speaking countries, including Tunisian Arabic (Derja).

Tunisia · Tunis