{"id":18024,"date":"2015-02-21T10:09:04","date_gmt":"2015-02-21T17:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=18024"},"modified":"2015-02-21T10:09:04","modified_gmt":"2015-02-21T17:09:04","slug":"byu-and-a-national-ranking-of-undergraduate-programs-in-arabic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/02\/byu-and-a-national-ranking-of-undergraduate-programs-in-arabic.html","title":{"rendered":"BYU and a national ranking of undergraduate programs in Arabic"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18025\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18025\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/02\/250px-Folio_from_a_Quran_Mamluk_dynasty.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18025\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/02\/250px-Folio_from_a_Quran_Mamluk_dynasty.jpg\" alt=\"Mamluk Qur\u2019an folio\" width=\"250\" height=\"346\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18025\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 14th-century Egyptian Qur\u2019an<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foreign-language-colleges.com\/arabic-and-semitic\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/foreign-language-colleges.com\/arabic-and-semitic<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The efforts of many have gone into creating a program that\u2019s so highly ranked. \u00a0Superb and dedicated people have built it over the past three decades, and they continue to improve it.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It can certainly be said, though, that this ranking\u00a0is a tribute to, and a legacy of, the labors of my long-time friend and colleague <a href=\"http:\/\/asiane.byu.edu\/directory\/dbp5\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Dil Parkinson<\/a>. \u00a0Dil is the father of serious Arabic study and teaching at Brigham Young University.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 http:\/\/foreign-language-colleges.com\/arabic-and-semitic \u00a0 The efforts of many have gone into creating a program that\u2019s so highly ranked. \u00a0Superb and dedicated people have built it over the past three decades, and they continue to improve it. \u00a0 It can certainly be said, though, that this ranking\u00a0is a tribute to, and a legacy of, the labors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BYU and a national ranking of undergraduate programs in Arabic<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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