Arabic Language Academy of Jordan
King Faisal Prize in Arabic Language and Literature 2017 Laureate
Topic: "Efforts of Individuals and Institutions to Arabicize Science and Technology for Transfer: Research and Educational Purposes"
Greetings to the Arabic language that sustained our history from the time we dreamed of justice through the verses of the Holy Qur'an
The establishment of an Arabic Language Academy in Jordan was envisaged as early as the 1960s when the Jordanian Ministry of Education formed the Jordanian Committee for Arabization, Translation and Publication, which embraced the idea of establishing the Academy. After visiting Arabic language academies in Damascus, Cairo, and Baghdad, and reviewing their activities, regulations, systems and procedures, the Jordanian Council of Ministers in 1973 approved, in principle, the establishment of the Academy. In 1976, a Royal decree was issued ordering the inception of the Jordanian Arabic Language Academy which commenced its activities at that time. Currently, the Academy comprises 30 active members, in different fields of science and literature, in addition to a number of honorary and supporting members.
The primary objectives of the Academy are to sustain the integrity of the Arabic language, ensure that it keeps pace with modern literary, scientific and artistic requirements, fulfills the needs of community knowledge, and revive Arabic and Islamic heritage. It is also the Academy’s objective to publish unified glossaries of terms in literature, science and arts in collaboration with educational, scientific, linguistic and cultural institutions in Jordan and abroad.
In order to achieve these objectives, the Jordanian Arabic Language Academy has exerted inexorable efforts in translating sciences and technology, transferring terms and introducing Arabization in higher education as a prelude towards implementing Arabized science and technology in education throughout the Arab World. In addition, the Academy issues the periodical, Journal of the Jordanican Arabic Language Academy.
The Academy also prepares research and studies pertinent to the Arabic language and encourages writings, translations, and publications on the Arabic language and related issues, in addition to publishing new terminologies, holding conferences and collaborating with universities and other scientific and educational institutions in Jordan and abroad. The Academy also contributed to the initiative of the “Protection of Arabic Language Legislation”.
This biography was written in the year the prize was awarded.
- The academy received many prizes and awards including:
- Mohammed Bin Rashid Award for Arabic Language in 2018.
- The OPEC Fund for International Development grant in 2018.
- Cairo Artworks Award in 2018
- Jordanian Order of Independence in 2019.
- The academy published many books including:
- Al-Ain Wa Al-Basar Fi Al-Quran Al-Kareem (Professor Sra Al-Eish), (2018).
- Mu’jam Lisan Al-Arab Al-Eqtisadi (Professor Abd Al-Razzaq Hani), (2019).
- Tareekh Al-Ulom Wa Al-Tiknologia Fi Al-Hadharah Al-Arabiyyah Al-Islamiyyah (2020).
Qubbat Al-Sama’a Tatakallam Al-Arabiyyah (Professor Abd Al-Qadir Abed), (2021).