The Institute for Studies and Research on Arabization (, or ) is an institute dedicated to Arabization in Rabat,

Morocco Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria t ...

created by decree January 14, 1960.

History

In 1960, the Moroccan government created the Institute for Studies and Research on Arabization at

Mohammed V University Mohammed V University (, french: Université Mohammed-V de Rabat), in Rabat, Morocco, was founded in 1957 under a royal decree ( Dahir). It is the first modern university in Morocco after the University of al-Qarawiyyin in Fez. History The uni ...

for the development and modernization of Arabic, with Lakhdar Ghazal as its director. Its first congress was held in 1961 in Rabat. In 1967, the Arab League entrusted the Institute for Studies and Research on Arabization with coordinating efforts to enrich

Arabic Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C. E.Watson; Walter ...

with developing scientific terminologies and to standardize the Arabization of such concepts in the

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. In 1975, an agreement with Morocco's and

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provided funding for Lakhdar Ghazal's ASV Codar typography project. The administration of Prime Minister

Saadeddine Othmani Saadeddine Othmani ( ber, ⵙⴰⵄⴷ ⴷⴷⵉⵏ ⵍⵄⵓⵜⵎⴰⵏⵉ; ar, سعد الدين العثماني; born 16 January 1956), sometimes translated as Saad Eddine el-Othmani, is a Moroccan politician. He served as the 16th prime mi ...

made the Institute part of the

in 2020. This move came after controversy arose from an attempt to place it along with the

Royal Institute of Amazigh Culture The Royal Institute of Amazigh Culture (french: Institut royal de la culture amazighe (IRCAM); zgh, ⴰⵙⵉⵏⴰⴳ ⴰⴳⵍⴷⴰⵏ ⵏ ⵜⵓⵙⵙⵏⴰ ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ, Asinag Ageldan n Tussna Tamazight (SGSM); ar, المعه� ...

(IRCAM) under the National Council of Moroccan Languages and Cultures.

References

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