This book aims to demonstrate the advantage of a corpus based approach to Arabic, and presents an overview of current research on the Arabic language within corpus linguistics. The book will deal not only with modern standard Arabic, but will also contain papers considering classical Arabic as well as colloquial Arabic, namely Tunisian Arabic and Iraqi Arabic.Each chapter is written by a different team/researcher who present their experience of working with Arabic from a particular perspective. This perspective based approach causes the book to divide naturally into four main sections – a section on corpus building, a section on the tools needed to explore the Arabic language, a section focussing on the use of corpora to explore the grammar of Arabic and a section looking at the study of discourse in Arabic.