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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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University centre Also teaches Arabic

Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Georgetown University

Georgetown University

Research and teaching in Arabic linguistics, Arabic literature and Islamic studies up to PhD.

United States · Washington, DC

 Arabic computing

Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC)

University of Pennsylvania

Creates and distributes language resources, including major Arabic corpora, the Penn Arabic Treebank and dialect speech data.

United States · Philadelphia

 Arabic computing

arabiCorpus

College of Humanities, Brigham Young University

Searchable Arabic text corpus (press, novels, the Qur'an) for usage and vocabulary research.

United States · Provo

 Manuscripts and editions

Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML)

Saint John's University

Digitises endangered manuscripts, including an Islamic (largely Arabic) manuscripts programme in Mali, Jerusalem and Harar.

United States · Collegeville, Minnesota

 Manuscripts and editions

Princeton Geniza Lab

Princeton University

Transcribes and catalogues Cairo Geniza documents, mostly in Judaeo-Arabic, in a public database.

United States · Princeton

 Manuscripts and editions

Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA)

Northwestern University

Scholarship on Islamic learning in Africa; catalogues and translates African Arabic and Ajami manuscripts.

United States · Evanston

 Other body

Arabic Linguistics Society (ALS)

University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (mailing address)

Non-profit society for research in modern Arabic linguistics (theoretical, historical, sociolinguistic, corpus and computational); annual symposium and proceedings.

United States · Milwaukee