The Jordan Academy of Arabic

 

Introduction

    The idea of founding the Jordan Academy of Arabic originated as early as the first years of the founding of the Emirate of Transjordan in the third decade of the twentieth century. The Journal of the Arab Scientific Academy in Damascus published the news of the founding of the Jordan Academy of Arabic in January, 1924. It was the second academy of Arabic to be founded in the Arab world after the Arab Scientific Academy in Damascus which was founded in 1919. Regrettably, it was short-lived due to the scarcity of financial, scientific and human resources. A royal decree founding Jordan Academy of Arabic was issued in 1976. It officially assumed its responsibilities as of the first of October 1976, and joined the Cairo-based Union of Arab Scientific and Language Academies in 1977.