Arabic language research centres

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