Arabic language research centres

Arab Gulf Educational Centre for Arabic Language

Arab Bureau of Education for the Gulf States

Body of the Arab Bureau of Education preparing studies and research on improving Arabic teaching and learning, and organising the International Arabic Language Conference.

United Arab Emirates · Sharjah

Institut français d'archéologie orientale (IFAO)

French Ministry of Higher Education and Research

Beside Egyptology: Arabic and Islamic studies, Arabic papyri and manuscripts, and a dictionary of Egyptian Arabic.

Egypt · Cairo

Bayt al-Hikma — Department of Linguistic and Translation Studies

Bayt al-Hikma (House of Wisdom)

A research department of Bayt al-Hikma holding seminars and conferences on linguistics and translation, with its own journal and translated publications.

Iraq · Baghdad

Ibn Abi al-Rabi' al-Sabti Centre for Linguistic and Literary Studies

Rabita Mohammadia of Ulema

Research on the Arabic language sciences (grammar, morphology, lexicon, rhetoric) and their link to the Qur'an and literature, through seminars and publications.

Morocco

Scientific and Technical Research Centre for the Development of the Arabic Language (CRSTDLA)

Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research

Research in Arabic linguistics, lexicography, terminology and translation, computational linguistics, Arabic didactics and speech pathology.

Algeria · Algiers (Bouzareah)

Centre d'études islamiques de Kairouan (CEIK)

Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research

Studies of Islamic civilisation — history, thought and sciences — manuscript editing, and the Kairouan Qur'ans and heritage.

Tunisia · Kairouan

King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies

King Faisal Foundation

Islamic studies research centre with Arabic and heritage work: a peer-reviewed linguistics journal, a manuscript collection, and the Khizanat al-Turath manuscript-location database.

Saudi Arabia · Riyadh

Writing and Scripts Center (Calligraphy Center), Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Studies writing systems, inscriptions and calligraphy across the ages, Arabic script included, documenting them digitally and holding international forums.

Egypt · Alexandria

Doha Historical Dictionary of Arabic

Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies

Historical dictionary recording Arabic words and the development of their meanings over time with dated citations, built on a large text corpus.

Qatar · Doha

Institute of Arab Research and Studies

Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO)

A postgraduate institute of Arab studies, with a department of heritage and manuscript studies; holds symposia and publishes research in the humanities.

Egypt · Cairo

Khartoum International Institute for Arabic Language

Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO)

Trains specialists in teaching Arabic to non-native speakers, conducts field research in the area, and is preparing an Arabic–Hausa dictionary.

Sudan · Khartoum

Pontificio Istituto di Studi Arabi e d'Islamistica (PISAI)

Holy See (Missionaries of Africa)

Higher-education and research institute in Arabic language and Islamic studies, awarding degrees.

Italy · Rome

Orientální ústav AV ČR (Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences)

Czech Academy of Sciences

Research institute whose Middle East department studies Arabic and Islamic cultures, texts and history.

Czech Republic · Prague

Orijentalni institut u Sarajevu

University of Sarajevo

Oriental philology research, incl. Bosnian writing in Arabic, with a manuscript collection and archive.

Bosnia and Herzegovina · Sarajevo

Instituto Egipcio de Estudios Islámicos en Madrid

Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (Egypt)

Studies Andalusi and Arabic heritage and translates Arabic sources into Spanish.

Spain · Madrid

Bibliotheca Arabica – Neue Geschichte der arabischen Literatur

Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, with Leipzig University

Long-term academy project on Arabic literature 1150–1850 through manuscript studies; builds the KHIZANA platform.

Germany · Leipzig

Escuela de Estudios Árabes (EEA-CSIC)

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)

CSIC research institute for Arabic and Andalusi studies: texts, history, architecture and written heritage.

Spain · Granada

Escuela de Traductores de Toledo

Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha

Research centre on Arabic/Hebrew–Spanish translation, training translators and publishing translated texts.

Spain · Toledo

İslam Araştırmaları Merkezi (İSAM)

Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı

Runs a critical-edition unit and Arabic manuscript editing courses, an Arabic–Turkish historical dictionary project, and symposia on Arabic language and rhetoric.

Türkiye · Istanbul

Centre d'études orientales – Institut orientaliste de Louvain (CIOL)

UCLouvain

Oriental philology, including premodern Arabic texts and Copto-Arabic historiography.

Belgium · Louvain-la-Neuve

Centre de recherches Moyen-Orient Méditerranée (CERMOM)

Inalco

Research unit on Middle Eastern literatures and languages, including Arabic linguistics and dialects such as Levantine.

France · Paris

ALiDiM – Arabic Linguistic Discourse in the Making

Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Metalinguistic study of how Classical Arabic was codified in 7th–10th-century grammatical and lexical sources.

Italy · Venice

Corpus Coranicum

Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (BBAW)

Documents the Qur'an's text in manuscripts and oral readings, builds an intertext database and a commentary.

Germany · Potsdam

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

Institut de recherches et d'études sur les mondes arabes et musulmans (IREMAM)

CNRS & Aix-Marseille Université

Multidisciplinary institute with a research pole on Arabic linguistics, sociolinguistics and dialectology.

France · Aix-en-Provence

Istituto per l'Oriente C. A. Nallino (IPOCAN)

Research institute on the Arab and Muslim world, with a specialised library and Arabic-studies journals.

Italy · Rome

Ziya Bunyadov Institute of Oriental Studies

Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences

An oriental studies institute with an Arabic philology department, working on Arabic language, literature and sources; it publishes «Azerbaijan Oriental Studies».

Azerbaijan · Baku

Instituto de Lenguas y Culturas del Mediterráneo y Oriente Próximo (ILC-CSIC)

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)

Studies Mediterranean languages and cultures from original texts; its Jewish and Islamic Studies department covers Arabic sources.

Spain · Madrid