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A Royal approval was issued regarding the establishment of the Institute of Translation and Arabization at Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University pursuant to the Higher Education Council's resolution number (39/66/1432) issued in the Council's sixty-sixth session and dated in Shawwal the 20th /1432 A.H. (18 September 2011) based on the University Council's resolution number (2220–1430 ...
The Graeco-Arabic translation movement was a large, well-funded, and sustained effort responsible for translating a significant volume of secular Greek texts into Arabic. [1] The translation movement took place in Baghdad from the mid-eighth century to the late tenth century.
Al-Azhar University in Cairo.. Higher education in the Arab world is non-compulsory, formal education that occurs after secondary education in the twenty-two Arab states.The landscape of higher education in the Arab world is characterized by its dynamic evolution, reflecting the region's diverse cultural and socio-economic contexts across 22 countries in the Middle East and North Africa. [1]
The prize was established in 2006 by the literary magazine Banipal, which promotes the dissemination of contemporary Arabic literature through English translations, alongside the Banipal Trust for Arab Literature. It is administered by the Society of Authors in the UK, which also oversees several other literary translation prizes.
As the Arabic-speaking rulers who initially came in 711 intermingled and intermarried with local populations, the co-existence of Arabic, Hebrew, Latin, and the local Romance vernacular had seen the emergence of new pidgin vernaculars and bilingual song forms, as well as the creation of new bodies of literature in Arabic and Hebrew.
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The Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding is a Qatari literary award for translation from and to Arabic. The total value of the award is $2 million. It is named in honor of Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the ruling Emir of Qatar from 1995 to 2013. It is among the world's richest literary prizes for translation.
Professor of Arabic, Alfred Guillaume (SOAS); Professor of Sociology, Syed Farid al-Attas (National University of Singapore) [3] Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Devin J. Stewart (Emory University) agree that there is a resemblance between the ijazah and the university degree. [4] However, Toby Huff and others reject Makdisi's theory.