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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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ICESCO Center of Arabic for Non-Arabic Speakers

Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ICESCO)

Publishes a peer-reviewed series of studies on teaching Arabic to non-Arabic speakers, runs teacher-training programmes and the Arabic Language Riwaq forum.

Morocco · Rabat

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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

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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

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Institut des Belles Lettres Arabes (IBLA)

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

Tunisia · Tunis

 Other body Also teaches Arabic

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