Arabic language research centres

Arabic Studies, Leiden Institute for Area Studies

Leiden University

Research on the history of Arabic, ancient Arabian epigraphy and philology, with a major Oriental manuscript collection.

Netherlands · Leiden

Semitic Languages, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University

Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University

Research on Arabic syntax, modern dialects, manuscript textual criticism, literature and media.

Sweden · Uppsala

Orientalisches Institut, Universität Leipzig

Faculty of History, Art and Area Studies, Leipzig University

Research and teaching in Arabic and Islamic studies, including Arabic linguistics, translation and the university's manuscripts.

Germany · Leipzig

Área de Estudios Árabes e Islámicos, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Departamento de Lingüística, Estudios Árabes, Hebreos, Vascos y de Asia Oriental, Facultad de Filología

Research on the Arabic language in its varieties, al-Andalus and classical Arabo-Islamic civilisation, and the contemporary Arab world.

Spain · Madrid

Near and Middle East Section, SOAS University of London

School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, SOAS University of London

Arabic linguistics and contact-induced change, classical and modern Arabic literature, Qur'anic studies and early Arabic historiography.

United Kingdom · London

Dipartimento Istituto Italiano di Studi Orientali – ISO, Sapienza Università di Roma

Sapienza Università di Roma

Research on the languages and civilisations of Asia and Africa, including Arabic, Semitic philology and Arabic dialectology; publishes Rivista degli Studi Orientali.

Italy · Rome

Dipartimento Asia Africa e Mediterraneo, Università di Napoli L'Orientale

Università degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale

Research in Arabic language, literature, dialectology and metrics within Asian, African and Mediterranean studies.

Italy · Naples

Departamento de Estudios Semíticos, Universidad de Granada

Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Granada

Department with an Arabic and Islamic Studies section and research groups on contemporary Arab studies and Arabic didactics.

Spain · Granada

Department of Semitic and Arabic Studies, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)

Institute of Oriental Studies, ELTE

Research in Semitic philology, Arabic studies, Sufism and Andalusian culture.

Hungary · Budapest

Institut für Orientalistik, Universität Wien

Universität Wien

Arabic linguistics and comparative dialectology (incl. Arabic in southern Turkey); offers an MA in Arabic Linguistics.

Austria · Vienna

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

Departamento de Estudios Árabes e Islámicos y Estudios Orientales, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Research lines include the Arabic language, Moroccan Arabic, Arabic–Spanish translation and Arabic literature.

Spain · Madrid

Кафедра арабской филологии, Институт стран Азии и Африки МГУ

Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Department of Arabic language and literature within the Philology Division, combining teaching and research.

Russia · Moscow

Department of Arabic Language and Literature, International Islamic University Malaysia

AbdulHamid AbuSulayman Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences (AHAS KIRKHS)

Arabic linguistic and literary studies; publishes a peer-reviewed Arabic-language journal twice a year.

Malaysia · Kuala Lumpur

Katedra Blízkého východu, Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy

Faculty of Arts, Charles University

Research on Middle Eastern languages, incl. a lexicographic database of Bedouin dialects and Arabic dialect studies.

Czech Republic · Prague

Department of Arabic Philology, Saint Petersburg State University

Faculty of Asian and African Studies, Saint Petersburg State University

Arabic grammar and phonology, Egyptian, Iraqi, Syrian and Saudi dialects, and classical Arabic documents, in the tradition of the Rosen–Krachkovsky school.

Russia · Saint Petersburg

Department of Arabic Philology, Kazan Federal University

Institute of International Relations (Oriental Studies), Kazan Federal University

Continues the Kazan school of Arabic studies (since 1807), with work on cultural linguistics, Egyptian Arabic, reading Arabic manuscripts and the Arabic poetry of Transoxania.

Russia · Kazan

Department of Middle Eastern & Asian Languages & Cultures, University of Malta

Faculty of Arts, University of Malta

Research on Arabic dialectology, Qur'anic lexicology, Arabic sociolinguistics and Arabic–Maltese links; offers a research MA in Arabic.

Malta · Msida

Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford

University of Oxford

Research in Arabic language, literature and civilisation; home of the Laudian Chair of Arabic (1636).

United Kingdom · Oxford

İstanbul Üniversitesi Şarkiyat Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi

İstanbul Üniversitesi

Research on Arabic and Persian philology and Urdu, and on material about Turkish history in Arabic and Persian sources.

Türkiye · Istanbul

Centro de Estudios Árabes Eugenio Chahuán, Universidad de Chile

Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, Universidad de Chile

Teaches Arabic and researches Arabic as a second language and classical Arab studies; publishes Revista de Estudios Árabes.

Chile · Santiago

Centrul de Studii Arabe, Universitatea din București (Center for Arab Studies)

Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest

Research on Classical and dialectal Arabic, Arabic literature and Islamic thought; publishes Romano-Arabica since 2001.

Romania · Bucharest

Centre of Arabic and African Studies (CAAS), Jawaharlal Nehru University

School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, JNU

Teaching and research in modern Arabic language, literature and translation up to PhD.

India · New Delhi

Pusat Kajian Bahasa Arab dan Tamadun Islam, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

Fakulti Pengajian Islam, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

One of five research centres of the Faculty of Islamic Studies, covering Arabic language, literature and culture and Islamic civilisation.

Malaysia · Bangi

Semitistik – Seminar für Sprachen und Kulturen des Vorderen Orients, Universität Heidelberg

Universität Heidelberg

Semitic studies with a long tradition in the dialectology of Arabic and Neo-Aramaic.

Germany · Heidelberg

Instytut Orientalistyki, Uniwersytet Jagielloński – Arabic Studies

Jagiellonian University

Research and teaching in Modern Standard Arabic and its dialects, in literature and linguistics.

Poland · Kraków

Institut für Arabistik, Freie Universität Berlin

Fachbereich Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften, Freie Universität Berlin

Arabic literature from pre-Islamic times to the present; runs the Kalila wa-Dimna project, the kalimat project on key terms of the Arabic manuscript tradition, and an edition of Aristotle's Poetics in Arabic and other translations.

Germany · Berlin

Seminar für Arabistik/Islamwissenschaft I, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Research on classical and modern Arabic literature, Arabic theatre, hadith and Arabic-Islamic philosophy.

Germany · Göttingen

Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies (IAIS), University of Exeter

University of Exeter

Multidisciplinary institute including linguists, with strength in Arabic language and literature.

United Kingdom · Exeter

Institut für Arabistik und Islamwissenschaft, Universität Münster

Universität Münster

Arabic language and literature research, incl. an edition of Ibn Nubātah's works and an Encyclopedia of Arabic Stylistic Devices.

Germany · Münster