​This paper analyses the state of quantitative methods in Arab political science, focusing specifically on the utilization of inferential statistics. It surveys a sample of over eight thousand papers published in twenty-eight Arab peer-reviewed political science journals. The study reveals the marginality of quantitative methods in Arab political science and argues that this condition has a negative impact on the ability of Arab political science to engage effectively and critically with international literature on research topics heavily dominated by the collection and analysis of numerical data, such as political behaviour.