Negotiating Untranslatability and Islam in Leila Aboulela’s

Butt, Nadia

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“…Before starting the translation, we have carried out an examination of the translations accomplished by the Egyptian scholar A. Shaheen, but it was perplexing to see the significant number of deviations from the source text. This may suggest that he was not translating but rewriting it, using additions and omissions which may be related with what was described by Butt (2009) as "a modern woman's confrontation with the […] perception of Islam, on the one hand, and the idea of Islam as an absolute truth, on the other" (Butt, 2009, p. 168). Thus, many hypotheses could be formulated.…”

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When Translation Becomes a Question of Intervention

Bedjaoui¹,

Tahraoui²

2019

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This article attempts to highlight the social, political, and ethical challenges facing the translator when dealing with religious and philosophical texts. Drawing on our experience in translating books related to these fields from Arabic into French and vice versa, we pinpoint examples of untranslatability of some religious and intellectual concepts due to constraints within the target language. Moreover, the question of the translator as cross-cultural mediator capable of achieving acculturation is addressed. The analysis is conducted following two fundamental concepts in the field of translation studies, namely domestication and foreignization, in addition to another view commonly used by the French philosopher Michel Foucault "authority or power of language" which arises through the discourses that we produce, or that others produce. These ideas will give insights into the translators' choices, decisions, and even hesitations when handling terms or expressions connected with religious or intellectual concepts.

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Section: Translation and Rewritingmentioning

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When Translation Becomes a Question of Intervention

Bedjaoui¹,

Tahraoui²

2019

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“…Aboulela's fiction depicts the lives of Muslims in Britain and portrays how Islam plays a decisive role in shaping their identities. Her works have received a remarkable critical acclaim from critics like Geoffrey Nash (2002Nash ( , 2007Nash ( & 2011, Claire Chambers (2009Chambers ( & 2011, Wail Hassan (2008Hassan ( & 2012, Marta Cariello (2009), Eva Hunter (2013), C. E. Rashid (2012Rashid ( & 2014, Alexandra Rizzo (2012), Md Mahmudul Hasan (2015), Nadia Butt (2009), Brenda Cooper (2008), Ferial J. Ghazoul (2014), Yousef Awad (2012Awad ( & 2014, Amer Al-Adwan and Yousef Awad (2013) and Huda Ulayyan and Yousef Awad (2016).…”

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Fiction in CONTEST with History? Faith, Resilience and the War on Terror in Aboulela’s The Kindness of Enemies

Awad

2018

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This paper examines Arab British novelist Leila Aboulela’s representation of the precarious position British Muslims occupy as a result of the introduction of Britain’s counter-terrorism strategy (CONTEST). In The Kindness of Enemies (2015), Aboulela valorizes the horrendous experiences that members of a British Muslim family with roots in the Caucasus undergo as a result of an unsubstantiated terrorist-linked investigation. When the police arrest Oz, his mother, Malak, launches a campaign to secure the freedom of her son. During these hard times, she draws on the legacy of her great grandfather, Imam Shamil who spearheaded a Sufi Jihadist movement in the Caucasus against the Russians in the 19th century, for inspiration and solace. By drawing on history, Aboulela exposes the falsity of contemporary radical Islamist groups and presents Imam Shamil’s movement as a bright example of a Jihadist movement that was never involved in terrorist acts. In addition, by depicting how Malak embraces her great grandfather’s Sufi principles of self-control and endurance, the novel highlights the role Sufism could play in curbing radicalization among young Muslims in a hostile and McCarthyist post-9/11 and 7/7 era..

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Fiction in CONTEST with History? Faith, Resilience and the War on Terror in Aboulela’s The Kindness of Enemies

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