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168 programmes in 37 countries
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537 venues in 68 countries
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407 libraries
إصدار مجمع الملك سلمان العالميّ للغة العربيّة (قائمة الرياض للمفردات الشائعة في اللغة العربية المعاصرة) لأكثر 5000 كلمة شائعة.
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Series of documented cards on Arabic: what scholars said of it, and what it carried into the world's languages, skies and sciences. Each series has two colours of its own, and every card comes in Arabic and English, to download and share.
13 November 2026 · Jumada II 3, 1448 AH
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Source: من أمثال العرب في البلاغة
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ثعلب — «مجالس ثعلب»
أحمد بن يحيى، إمامُ الكوفيّين في النحو واللغة. و«المجالس» تدوينٌ لما كان يُملى في مجلسه من لغةٍ وشعرٍ وأخبار — صورةٌ حيّةٌ لطريقة التعليم في القرن الثالث. تُوفّي سنة ٢٩١ للهجرة.
Source: «مجالس ثعلب»
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Praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds, and peace and blessings be upon our Prophet Muhammad and upon all his family and companions. More than a quarter of a century has passed since the first version of Voice of Arabic was launched: I published it on Saturday, 20 Jumada al-Akhirah 1422 AH (8 September 2001). It took…
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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.
Two-Year Arabic Programme for Non-Native Speakers (Intermediate Diploma)
King Khalid University — Unit for Teaching Arabic to Non-Native Speakers
Saudi Arabia · Abha
UniversityBA Arabic and Islamic Programme – Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo (NVIC)
Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo – Leiden University
Egypt · Cairo
UniversityIHU Summer Language School — Arabic, Ibn Haldun University
Ibn Haldun University
Türkiye · Istanbul
UniversityMiddle Eastern and Mediterranean Language Institute (MEDLI) – Arabic
University of Wisconsin–Madison (WISLI)
Online
UniversityLinguistic 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
Online platformArabic for non-Arabic Speakers I–III — Qatar University (edX)
Qatar University (QUx) via edX
Online
From the Arab world and beyond, in Arabic and other languages, for publishing scholarly research
Studia Islamica
Brill
Netherlands · About Arabic
ISSN: 1958-5705
Multidisciplinary International Peer-reviewed journalDie Welt des Orients
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Germany · About Arabic
ISSN: 2196-9019
Multidisciplinary International Refereed book seriesSemitica Viva
Harrassowitz Verlag
Germany · About Arabic
ISSN: 2751-8418
International Peer-reviewed journalJournal of the Royal Asiatic Society
Cambridge University Press (Royal Asiatic Society)
United Kingdom · About Arabic
ISSN: 1474-0591
Multidisciplinary International Peer-reviewed journalZeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (ZDMG)
Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft / Harrassowitz
Germany · About Arabic
ISSN: 2747-4402
Multidisciplinary International Refereed book seriesPorta Linguarum Orientalium. Neue Serie
Harrassowitz Verlag
Germany · About Arabic
International Peer-reviewed journalAsiatische Studien – Études Asiatiques
De Gruyter Brill (Swiss Asia Society)
Switzerland · About Arabic
ISSN: 2235-5871
Multidisciplinary International Peer-reviewed journalJournal Asiatique
Peeters (Société asiatique)
France · About Arabic
ISSN: 1783-1504
Multidisciplinary International Refereed book seriesArabische Studien
Harrassowitz Verlag
Germany · About Arabic
International Peer-reviewed journalLe Muséon: Revue d'études orientales
Peeters
Belgium · About Arabic
ISSN: 1783-158X
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 Refereed book seriesAbhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes (AKM)
Harrassowitz Verlag for the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (DMG)
Germany · About Arabic
ISSN: 0567-4980
Multidisciplinary InternationalBodies that do research on Arabic: language academies, dictionary projects, research centres and computing labs, and manuscript centres — in the Arab world and beyond.
Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts (Beit al-Hikma)
Academy for sciences, letters and arts whose work includes the Arabic language, translation, and editing and publishing heritage texts.
Tunisia · Carthage
Dictionary projectVICAV – Vienna Corpus of Arabic Varieties
ACDH-CH, Austrian Academy of Sciences; Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna
Digital platform for Arabic dialects: dictionaries, sample texts, linguistic profiles and bibliography.
Austria · Vienna
Dictionary projectHistorical Dictionary of the Arabic Language (Sharjah)
Arabic Language Academy in Sharjah
Historical dictionary tracing Arabic words and their meanings across five periods, arranged by root with dated citations, produced with Arab academies.
United Arab Emirates · Sharjah
Research centreBibliotheca 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
Research centreKing 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
University centre Also teaches ArabicDepartment 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
University centreFaculty of Dar Al-Uloom
Cairo University
A faculty specialised in Arabic language and literature and Islamic sciences, teaching and awarding graduate degrees in grammar, rhetoric, criticism and literature.
Egypt · Giza
Oriental studies institute or centreOrientální 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
Research chairProf. Abdulaziz Al-Mane Chair for Arabic Language and Literature
King Saud University
Research chair publishing studies in Arabic language and literature, researching language acquisition and learning, and cooperating with Arabic-related institutions at home and abroad.
Saudi Arabia · Riyadh
Arabic computingThe Quranic Arabic Corpus
University of Leeds
Annotated linguistic corpus of the Qur'an with morphological tagging, syntactic treebank and root lexicon.
United Kingdom · Leeds
Arabic computingArabic Artificial Intelligence Centre (Thakaa Al-Arabiyya)
King Salman Global Academy for Arabic Language
Centre for AI-based Arabic language processing, with labs for building and annotating language data and developing models and tools for researchers.
Saudi Arabia · Riyadh
Manuscripts and editionsMiddle Eastern Library and Middle Eastern collections, Leiden University Libraries
Leiden University Libraries
Brings together the Middle Eastern collections, centred on classical literature and linguistics, holding Arabic manuscripts (including the Yemeni collection) and working on their preservation and digitisation.
Netherlands · Leiden
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.
Memrise Limited
Over 400 topic-based lessons built on everyday phrases, with short videos of native speakers.
King Salman Global Academy for the Arabic Language (KSAA)
The full text of the Quran — 114 surahs, 77,439 words — tagged Meccan or Medinan, with Falak's frequency, collocation and prefix-suffix tools.
Universal Tarbiyah
Game-style lessons from the alphabet upward, with a Quran mode that reads verses word by word alongside everyday phrases.
الأمم المتّحدة
Terminology of the UN Secretariat, the regional commissions (ESCWA among them) and several agencies, side by side in the six languages, updated daily.
Rules of nahw and sarf as short articles with examples and exercises, ordered from simple to advanced, for Russian-speaking learners; a web version with a practice section accompanies the app.
Tarteel Inc.
An app that listens to the user's recitation, follows it and flags mistakes while memorising and revising, with extra features by subscription.
Kalimah Center
Cairo-based school giving live one-on-one and group online lessons in MSA and Classical Arabic, plus Quran with tajweed; it does not teach Egyptian dialect.
Mawdoo3 (موضوع)
An Arabic spelling and grammar checker that suggests one-click corrections, with diacritisation, writing numbers out in words for official documents, phrasing suggestions, text from images (OCR), and Arabic–English translation. Starts with a free trial.
A digital library of Arabic children's books in text and audio, with thousands of titles from over sixty Arab publishers; a few are free and the rest need a subscription.
Ankitects Pty Ltd and open-source contributors
A spaced-repetition flashcard program that shows each card just before you would forget it; learners build their own vocabulary decks with audio and images.
Alef Education Consultancy L.L.C.
Arabic for ages 3–8 through songs, videos and activities; built for schools, with teachers assigning lessons and receiving quiz results.
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.
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, Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University · Saudi Arabia
A team led by Dr Mahmoud Ismail Sini, Librairie du Liban, Beirut · Lebanon
Arab Bureau of Education for the Gulf States, Riyadh · Saudi Arabia (a Gulf body based in Riyadh)
Dr Rashid al-Duwaish and colleagues, King Saud University Press · Saudi Arabia
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
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.
متحف ومكتبة هيل للمخطوطات (HMML)
Catalogue linkDigitised manuscripts
United States · كوليجفيل، مينيسوتا
مخزن مخطوطات القيروان (المخبر الوطنيّ لصيانة الرقوق والمخطوطات)
Tunisia · رقّادة (القيروان)
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.
Syndicat National des Enseignants en Langue Arabe du Sénégal (SNELAS)
Senegal
Arabic Language Protection Association (Sharjah)
United Arab Emirates · Sharjah
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