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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

KITAB – Knowledge, Information Technology, & the Arabic Book

Aga Khan University, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC)

Computational detection of text reuse across the premodern Arabic written tradition.

United Kingdom · London

 University centre Also teaches Arabic

Near and Middle East Section, SOAS University of London

School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, SOAS University of London

Arabic linguistics and contact-induced change, classical and modern Arabic literature, Qur'anic studies and early Arabic historiography.

United Kingdom · London

 University centre Also teaches Arabic

Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford

University of Oxford

Research in Arabic language, literature and civilisation; home of the Laudian Chair of Arabic (1636).

United Kingdom · Oxford

 University centre Also teaches Arabic

Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies (IAIS), University of Exeter

University of Exeter

Multidisciplinary institute including linguists, with strength in Arabic language and literature.

United Kingdom · Exeter

 Arabic computing

The Quranic Arabic Corpus

University of Leeds

Annotated linguistic corpus of the Qur'an with morphological tagging, syntactic treebank and root lexicon.

United Kingdom · Leeds

 Manuscripts and editions

Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Bodleian Libraries (Oxford) and Cambridge University Library

Open union catalogue of Islamic and Middle Eastern manuscripts in UK libraries, searchable in Arabic and English.

United Kingdom · Oxford

 Manuscripts and editions

The Islamic Manuscript Association (TIMA)

Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge

International non-profit association for the preservation, cataloguing and access of Islamic manuscript collections; conferences and workshops.

United Kingdom · Cambridge

 Manuscripts and editions

Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation – Centre for the Study of Islamic Manuscripts

Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation

Surveys, images, catalogues, edits and publishes Islamic manuscripts, mostly Arabic.

United Kingdom · London

 Manuscripts and editions

Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit

Cambridge University Library

Conservation, cataloguing and research of Cairo Genizah fragments, many in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic.

United Kingdom · Cambridge

 Other body

Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia (OCIANA)

Khalili Research Centre, University of Oxford

Corpus of pre-Islamic inscriptions of north and central Arabia in Ancient North Arabian scripts and Old Arabic.

United Kingdom · Oxford