Students’ Comprehension of Arabic and English Terminology in Islamic Finance: A Comparative Study

Abstract

The rapid growing of Islamic finance sector is characterized by the establishment of
 Islamic financial institutions as well as Islamic financial market worldwide. Indonesia
 also shows significant development in this sector, which can be observed through the
 founding of various Islamic banking and insurance companies. As a result, Indonesian
 students’ interests in taking majors in Islamic Economics and Business are skyrocketing
 in the last decade. However, this phenomenon is not without any challenges since
 those students come from different educational backgrounds, either Islamic or public
 high schools. Meanwhile, Islamic finance uses much terminology taken from Arabic
 and English languages. This means that students from public high schools may not
 be familiar with the terms from those two languages, particularly the Arabic-derived
 ones. Thus, this study aimed to investigate Islamic Economics and Business UIN SU
 students’ comprehension of Arabic and English Terminology used in Islamic Finance.
 Employing a descriptive quantitative approach, this study used questionnaire as the
 instrument of data collection. The results reveal interesting findings indicating students’
 comprehension of Arabic terminology is significantly higher than that of English one.
 It can be concluded that students coming from either Islamic or public educational
 background have no significant differences in understanding Islamic financial terms
 derived from Arabic and English languages.

Investigating the Translation of Selected Semantic Devices in Relation to the Sociocultural Context between Arabic and English Business and Economic Texts

“…To the best of the researcher's knowledge, the studies that dealt with economic text translation between Arabic and English are limited to the problems of translating metaphors in the economic texts whose findings assert the non-uniformity of the procedures adopted by the translators such as the calque translation which was found in the studies of Nader (2014) and Nazzal (2017). Another bulk of studies by Harahap et al (2019), Abdihakim (2019), and Al Obaidani (2018) focused specifically on the economic terminologies that are represented in the frequent use of metaphoric expressions and collocations in addition to the high level of formality which left little to interpretations. Another set of studies was specified to pinpoint the problems of translations which focus on lexical, cultural, metaphorical aspects, cohesion, and omission errors, which are found in the studies done by Abdul-Fattah and Al-Saleh (2004), Mohamed (2022), Al-Obaidani (2015), Al Buloshi (2008), Awawdeh (1990) and Olteanu (2012).…”

Intralingual Translation Ability by Students of Sharia Law-Economics Against Popular Scientific Words of Sharia Economics

“…Popular scientific words in Sharia economics must be understood carefully so that the concept of learning can be absorbed by students as a determinant of the quality and ability of students in global competition. Therefore, students must master the intralingual translation of popular scientific words that are served on campus [1]. The same goals and ethical values are shown in a significant combination between the Islamic finance industry and socially responsible investment which is a current trend that is growing the impact of investment so that it is popular for students who are involved in economic education to find out the terminology related to this problem [2].…”