Arabic language research centres

Saudi Scientific Society for the Arabic Language

Scholarly society of Arabic-language academics that holds symposia and general assemblies on questions of the language and its literature.

Saudi Arabia

Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB)

Max Weber Foundation

A German research institute on the Near East and the Arab world; projects include Arabic letter semiotics and Arabic literary history, and it publishes text editions.

Lebanon · Beirut

French Institute of the Near East (Ifpo)

French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs and CNRS

A research institute with a department of medieval and modern Arabic studies, publishing studies and holding seminars on Arabic history and literature.

Lebanon · Beirut

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

Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought

An institute of Islamic thought whose projects include the Comprehensive Catalogue of Arabic-Islamic Manuscripts.

Jordan · Amman

Hamad Al-Jasser Cultural Centre

Cultural centre at Dar Al-Arab issuing Al-Arab journal on Arabic heritage, language and historical geography, and holding lectures and seminars.

Saudi Arabia · Riyadh

Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies (IDEO)

Dominican Order

A research centre on the Arabic-Islamic heritage and its primary texts from the first ten centuries of Islam, with a specialised library.

Egypt · Cairo

Institut des Belles Lettres Arabes (IBLA)

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

Tunisia · Tunis

Al-Babtain Central Library for Arabic Poetry

Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain Cultural Foundation

Library specialised in Arabic poetry that collects and catalogues its collections and sources, republishes rare books and holds seminars.

Kuwait · Kuwait City

The International Society for Arabic Papyrology (ISAP)

Arabic papyrology: checklists of editions and collections, a papyrology school, a database and periodic conferences.

International · Princeton

Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (DMG)

The main society of German orientalists, with Arabic philology among its core fields; publishes ZDMG (since 1847) and sponsored the Wörterbuch der klassischen arabischen Sprache.

Germany · Halle (Saale)

Iranian Association of Arabic Language and Literature

Scholarly association publishing a peer-reviewed quarterly on Arabic language and literature since 2004.

Iran

Korean Association of Arabic Language and Literature (한국아랍어아랍문학회)

Scholarly association for research on Arabic language and literature in Korea, with a peer-reviewed submission system.

South Korea

Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants (UEAI)

Association of European scholars of the languages, history and cultures of the Arab-Islamic world; biennial congress.

International

International Association of Arabic Dialectology (AIDA)

Association of researchers on Arabic dialects; holds a conference every two years and awards small grants to young researchers.

International

SIGARAB – ACL Special Interest Group on Arabic Natural Language Processing

Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

Forum for Arabic NLP research across Arabic varieties; sponsors the ArabicNLP conference and school and supports the Masader data catalogue.

International

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

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

Lajnah Pentashihan Mushaf Al-Qur'an (LPMQ)

Research, Development and Training Agency, Ministry of Religious Affairs of Indonesia

Verifies Qur'an print texts before publication and studies old manuscript Qur'ans of the archipelago.

Indonesia · Jakarta

Open Islamicate Texts Initiative (OpenITI)

International multi-university collaboration

Open machine-readable corpus of premodern Arabic and Persian texts and Arabic-script OCR tools.

International

WIBARAB – What is Bedouin-Type Arabic?

Institute of Oriental Studies, University of Vienna; ACDH-CH, Austrian Academy of Sciences

ERC Advanced Grant project on Bedouin-type Arabic dialects, with fieldwork and a TEI database mapping dialect features across the Arabic-speaking world.

Austria · Vienna

Thesaurus d'épigraphie islamique

Fondation Max van Berchem

Database of Arabic, Persian and Turkish inscriptions up to 1000 AH, about 49,000 records with photographs.

Switzerland · Geneva