This is a list of Arabic language academies. Some are officially named "Academy of the Arabic Language", "Arabic Language Academy", or something else.
Overview Arabic Linguistic Academies are scientific research institutions concerned with terminology, Arabization, and the language in all fields of human knowledge. Some researchers trace the origins of linguistic academies back to the scientific institutions of the ancient East, and some even attempt to trace their roots to the beginning of human history. Others have referred to the councils of Socrates and Plato, known as the Academy, named after the Greek mythical hero who was considered the protector of Athens. These ancient councils and scientific institutions reflect the concern that peoples have had throughout history for transferring knowledge, sciences, and civilizations into their languages in order to achieve renaissance, progress, and encourage creativity and authorship.
Perhaps the most accurate way to view linguistic academies is through the linguistic and intellectual stages that people go through during their renaissance, and the interaction between their language and the languages of other nations, especially with the intellectual progress in sciences, literature, and arts. This is what happened for the Arabs after they left their homeland to spread the Islamic call. New circumstances arose for the Arabic language, and it had to face multiple challenges from an early period, whether related to Arabizing state institutions, transferring sciences and knowledge, or even teaching the Arabic language itself. The earliest attempts to establish institutions that faced these new requirements can be considered the first nucleus of our linguistic academies. The oldest of these institutions in our history is the Translation Committee established by the Umayyad Prince Khalid ibn Yazid ibn Muawiya ibn Abi Sufyan (d. 85 AH) in Damascus to translate chemical books and others from Greek to Arabic. This idea became popular in later Islamic periods, with caliphs giving translation and transfer great attention, such as Caliph Al-Mansur and Harun al-Rashid, who laid the foundations of Bayt al-Hikma, an institution that reached its peak during the reign of Al-Ma'mun.
List of Arabic academies Name City Country Founded Arab Academy of Damascus Damascus Syria 1919 Jordan Academy of Arabic Amman Jordan 1924 (1976) Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo Cairo Egypt 1932 Iraqi Academy of Sciences Baghdad Iraq 1948 Institute for Studies and Research on Arabization Rabat Morocco 1962 Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Arts(Beït Al-Hikma) Tunis Tunisia 1983(1992) Academy of the Arabic Language in Khartum Khartum Sudan 1993 Palestinian Academy of the Arabic Language Ramallah State of Palestine 1994 Supreme Council of the Arabic language in Algeria Algiers Algeria 1996 Mogadishu Institute of Languages Mogadishu Somalia 1997 Academy of the Arabic Language in Libya Tripoli Libya 1999 Academy of the Arabic Language in Israel Haifa Israel 2007 Lebanese Academy of Sciences Koura District Lebanon 2007 Arabic Language Academy in Sharjah Sharjah United Arab Emirates 2016 King Salman Global Academy for Arabic Language Riyadh Saudi Arabia 2020
See also House of Wisdom (Bayt al-Ḥikmah) or Great Library of Baghdad (8th century – 1258)