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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

Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland

A learned society for Asian studies that publishes its Journal and opens its collections of manuscripts and books; Arabic is one of its fields within an all-Asia remit.

United Kingdom · London

Reviewed: November 2026 Oriental studies institute or 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

Reviewed: November 2026 Oriental studies institute or centre

Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge

Teaches Arabic at undergraduate level and researches Arabic literature, medieval Hebrew–Arabic linguistic thought and Judaeo-Arabic.

United Kingdom · Cambridge

Reviewed: November 2026 Oriental studies institute or 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

Reviewed: November 2026 Oriental studies institute or 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

Reviewed: November 2026