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168 programmes in 37 countries
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594 libraries
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14 November 2026 · Jumada II 4, 1448 AH
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السبب: المفردُ «كتاب» مذكّر، فيُؤنَّث العددُ معه على قاعدة المخالفة.
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Seven directories for those who teach, learn and research Arabic – pick one to see a sample.
Universities, institutes and platforms teaching Arabic to non-native speakers, in Saudi Arabia, the Arab world and beyond — pick a kind or a country to open the directory on it.
Linguistic Preparation Diploma
Islamic University of Madinah — Institute for Teaching Arabic to Non-Native Speakers
Saudi Arabia · Madinah
InstituteSIT Jordan: Intensive Arabic Language Studies (Summer)
School for International Training (SIT)
Jordan · Amman
UniversityLiteral Arabic — INALCO
Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO)
France · Paris
UniversityArabic, Basic Course 1 (distance)
University of Gothenburg
Online
UniversityLinguistic Preparation Diploma (Diploma in Arabic for Non-Native Speakers) — Intensive Morning Programme
Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University — Arabic Language Teaching Institute, Department of Language Preparation
Saudi Arabia · Riyadh
UniversityArabic for Non-Native Speakers (MSA and Egyptian Colloquial)
Center for Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language (TAFL), Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University
Egypt · Alexandria
InstituteCentre de langue et de civilisation arabes (CLCA) — Institut du monde arabe
Institut du monde arabe
France · Paris
UniversityMiddle Eastern and Mediterranean Language Institute (MEDLI) – Arabic
University of Wisconsin–Madison (WISLI)
Online
UniversityLinguistic Qualification Diploma
Umm Al-Qura University — Institute for Teaching Arabic to Non-Native Speakers
Saudi Arabia · Makkah
InstituteLearn Arabic in Jordan Programme
Modern Language Center (MLC)
Jordan · Amman
UniversityDepartment of Arabic — Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies — College of Asian Languages and Cultures
South Korea · Seoul
Online platformArabic for Beginners Specialization — Khalifa University (Coursera)
Khalifa University via Coursera
Online
From the Arab world and beyond, in Arabic and other languages, for publishing scholarly research
Die Welt des Orients
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Germany · About Arabic
ISSN: 2196-9019
Multidisciplinary International Peer-reviewed journalJournal of the Royal Asiatic Society
Cambridge University Press (Royal Asiatic Society)
United Kingdom · About Arabic
ISSN: 1474-0591
Multidisciplinary International Refereed book seriesPorta Linguarum Orientalium. Neue Serie
Harrassowitz Verlag
Germany · About Arabic
International Peer-reviewed journalZeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (ZDMG)
Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft / Harrassowitz
Germany · About Arabic
ISSN: 2747-4402
Multidisciplinary International Peer-reviewed journalAsiatische Studien – Études Asiatiques
De Gruyter Brill (Swiss Asia Society)
Switzerland · About Arabic
ISSN: 2235-5871
Multidisciplinary International Refereed book seriesArabische Studien
Harrassowitz Verlag
Germany · About Arabic
International Peer-reviewed journalJournal Asiatique
Peeters (Société asiatique)
France · About Arabic
ISSN: 1783-1504
Multidisciplinary International Peer-reviewed journalLe Muséon: Revue d'études orientales
Peeters
Belgium · About Arabic
ISSN: 1783-158X
Multidisciplinary International Refereed book seriesAbhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes (AKM)
Harrassowitz Verlag for the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (DMG)
Germany · About Arabic
ISSN: 0567-4980
Multidisciplinary International Peer-reviewed journalRevue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée (REMMM)
Presses universitaires de Provence / Aix-Marseille Université (IREMAM)
France · About Arabic
ISSN: 2105-2271
Multidisciplinary International Peer-reviewed journalOriens Christianus: Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Harrassowitz
Germany · About Arabic
ISSN: 0340-6407
Multidisciplinary International Refereed book seriesIslamic Manuscripts and Books
Brill
Netherlands · About Arabic
ISSN: 1877-9964
InternationalBodies that do research on Arabic: language academies, dictionary projects, research centres and computing labs, and manuscript centres — in the Arab world and beyond.
Libyan Academy of the Arabic Language
Libyan Council of Ministers
Safeguards the integrity of Arabic, studies and unifies scientific and technical terminology, and publishes research and decisions.
Libya · Tripoli
Dictionary projectThe Arabic Papyrology Database (APD)
Institut für den Nahen und Mittleren Osten, LMU München
Database of premodern Arabic documents on papyrus, parchment and paper, with full texts and a lexicon of lemmata and roots.
Germany · Munich
Dictionary projectDoha 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
Research centreALiDiM – 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
Research centreArab 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
University centrePusat 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
University centreDepartment of Arabic Language, Faculty of Al-Alsun
Ain Shams University
Awards the Al-Alsun BA in Arabic, teaches Arabic to the faculty's translation students, and runs a programme teaching Arabic to non-native speakers.
Egypt · Cairo
Oriental studies institute or centre Also teaches ArabicOrientalisches 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
Research chairChair for Teaching Arabic to Speakers of Other Languages
Arabic Linguistics Institute, King Saud University
Research, authorship and publishing on teaching Arabic to non-native speakers, including teaching software, with workshops and conferences.
Saudi Arabia · Riyadh
Arabic computingarabiCorpus
College of Humanities, Brigham Young University
Searchable Arabic text corpus (press, novels, the Qur'an) for usage and vocabulary research. Its page announces that it will close on 1 July 2027.
United States · Provo
Arabic computingCAMeL Lab (Computational Approaches to Modeling Language), NYU Abu Dhabi
New York University Abu Dhabi
Research lab in computational processing of Arabic and its dialects, developing CAMeL Tools and open corpora and resources.
United Arab Emirates · Abu Dhabi
Manuscripts and editionsIslamic Collections, Chester Beatty
Chester Beatty
Holds about 2,700 Arabic manuscripts and runs a long-term provenance survey of them and a codicological study of its Sub-Saharan African manuscripts.
Ireland · Dublin
For learners, teachers and researchers of Standard Arabic: apps and websites for learning, and the dictionaries and tools that serve it, each with its level and language of instruction.
ATi Studios SRL (part of Pearson)
Teaches Modern Standard Arabic in short daily lessons, with speech recognition, a verb conjugator and a virtual conversation partner.
Leipzig University (Wortschatz project)
A corpus-based dictionary: type an Arabic word to see example sentences, frequency and its common neighbours, drawn from corpora such as Arabic News 2020 (about 1.6 million sentences, 37.8 million tokens); other Arabic corpora can be chosen.
Areeb Bajwa
Teaches Quranic vocabulary by spaced repetition, starting with a test of how much of the Quran you already understand.
المنظّمة العالميّة للملكيّة الفكريّة (الويبو)
Scientific and technical terms drawn from patent documents, with a concept map showing how terms relate to one another.
University of Zurich, Asien-Orient-Institut (continuing education)
Live online classes of six to eight learners, once a week, on reading and hearing Arabic news: the vocabulary and collocations of the press, newspaper and magazine texts with TV and radio extracts, in four levels from B1 to C1, taught in Fusha.
جامعة الملك سعود
King Saud University's electronic Mushaf project, showing the Madinah Mushaf, the colour-coded tajwid Mushaf and the Warsh reading, with tafsirs and recitations.
Arabic Khatawaat, founded by Raja Benchekroun
Small teacher-led programme of three-month live online MSA classes by level, plus cultural events and a Morocco study-abroad option.
النحوي (alnnahwi.com)
An automatic Arabic grammar and spelling checker built on an AI model trained for Arabic: it corrects mistakes and suggests better phrasing. Short texts are free, a paid plan covers more, and there is a Chrome extension.
Yunus (Jonas) Andreasson
Short passages from classical Islamic authors — Ibn al-Qayyim, Ibn al-Jawzi, al-Nawawi and others — in Arabic beside an English rendering that keeps the Arabic word order; tap a word for its meaning and sound, and the words you miss come back for review.
شركة صخر لبرامج الحاسب
A spelling and grammar checker and diacritiser for Arabic text, with a Chrome extension and phone apps, free up to a daily limit and paid beyond it.
Jabal Amman Publishers
Over 1,200 illustrated Arabic and English stories, leveled, with read-to-me audio, recording of the child's own reading, and offline use.
Rosetta Stone LLC (a division of IXL Learning)
Teaches Modern Standard Arabic through immersive lessons without translation, and checks pronunciation with speech recognition.
Published series and books for teaching Modern Standard Arabic to non-native speakers, from Saudi Arabia and beyond – a listing and description.
Arabic Language Institute, Umm al-Qura University, Makkah · Saudi Arabia
Islam Presentation Committee, Kuwait · Kuwait
Manahej International, Riyadh · Saudi Arabia
Dr Muhammad Abdulkhaliq Fadl, King Abdulaziz University · Saudi Arabia
Arabic Language Institute, Umm al-Qura University · Saudi Arabia
Fanar Qatar Islamic Cultural Center, Doha · Qatar
Imran Hamza Alawiye, Anglo-Arabic Graphics · United Kingdom
Mahmoud Ismail Sini, Muhammad al-Rifai al-Sheikh and Dafallah Ahmad Saleh, King Saud University Press · Saudi Arabia
Dr V. Abdur Rahim, Islamic University of Madinah · Saudi Arabia
Vladimir Lebedev, VKN, Moscow · Russia
Imam Zarkasyi and Imam Syubani, Pondok Modern Darussalam Gontor · Indonesia
Mahmoud Ismail Sini and colleagues, Dar al-Marrikh, Riyadh · Saudi Arabia
A guide to the libraries around the world that hold Arabic manuscripts: where they are, what they hold, where the catalogue is, and whether the manuscripts can be seen online. It lists libraries, not individual manuscripts.
مكتبة الآباء الدومينيكان بالموصل (مركز رقمنة المخطوطات الشرقيّة)
Iraq · أربيل (نُقلت من الموصل)
Associations, societies and unions of Arabic teachers and scholars around the world, gathered from the country sections onto one page. Each has its own page in its country section, with an introduction, its website and a way to write to it.
Arabic Language Teachers' Association of Western Australia (ALTAWA)
Australia
American Translators Association – Arabic Language Division (ALD)
United States
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