Translated Qurʾān euphemisms: foreignised or domesticated?

Albarakati, Mohammed

doi:10.1080/23306343.2018.1525820

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“…Research on Qur'an translation is so extensive that a single Qur'anic linguistic phenomenon may be the subject of multiple investigations. Consider, for example, shift (al-iltifa:t, Abdel Haleem 1992;Mir 2017), euphemism (at-talattuf, Farghal 2005Abdel Haleem 2011;Albarakati 2019;Hassanein 2020b), metaphor (al-isti c a:ra, Ereksoussi 2014Sharaf Eldin 2014;Alhusban andAlkhawaldah 2018), metonymy (al-kina:ya, Al-Salem 2008;Muhammad 2017), pun (at-tawriyya, Al Aqad, Sapar, Hussin, Mokhtar andMohad 2019;Al-Kharabsheh and Houji 2019), antonymy (at-tiba:q, Al-Kharabsheh and Al-Jdayeh 2017; Hassanein 2017), and speech acts (Salama 2021), among others.…”

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Translatability of Ancillary Antonymy in the Qur’an: A Lexicosyntactic Approach

Hassanein,

Moustafa

2024

IJAES

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Among Muslims there is a dogmatic belief in the linguistic inimitability of Qur’anic discourse that places limitations on its translatability at different linguistic levels and constitutes a minefield of hurdles when translating it between incongruous and incommensurable languages. One understudied linguistic level is the lexical-semantic level and one unstudied issue is the frames and functions of ancillary antonymy in the Qur’anic discourse. This article explores the translatability of ancillary antonym frames and functions from Qur’anic Arabic into English, using a lexicosyntactic approach to seven English translations available and accessible in the Quranic Arabic Corpus (QAC). Findings demonstrate that the Qur’an translators in focus are at great variance in rendering the syntactic frames and discourse functions of ancillary antonymy into English. There are also noticeable variations in the translatorial syntagmatic chains and paradigmatic choices as a result of adopting different translational strategies, notably explicitation, implicitation, domestication, foreignization, reproduction, substitution, and exonymy. The main conclusion is that ancillary antonym pairs co-occur within syntactic frames and co-perform discourse functions which must be attended and rendered into target texts.

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Translatability of Ancillary Antonymy in the Qur’an: A Lexicosyntactic Approach

Hassanein,

Moustafa

2024

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Translating Semantic Cases from Qur’anic Arabic into English

Hassanein

2021

Journal of Intercultural Communication Research

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Translation Strategies of Islamic Terms Used by English Lecturers in English Conversations

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Fakhruddin

Taqiyuddin

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Purpose of the study: This study aimed at finding out the Islamic terms used as well as translated by English lecturers in English conversations, the strategies used by English lecturers in translating the Islamic terms in English conversations, the reasons why they use the strategies, and the contexts when they use and translate the Islamic terms in English conversations. Methodology: This research applied a qualitative study by involving seven English lecturers at State Islamic Institute of Curup, Bengkulu, Indonesia. The data were garnered from interviews and observations. The data were analyzed using an interactive model of data analysis. Main Findings: This research has found that the English lecturers used, and to some extent translated nineteen Islamic terms during English conversations. Those terms subsumed Assalammu’alaikum Warahmatullahi wa barakaatuh, InshaAllah, Bismillahirrohmannirrohiiim, Alhamdulillah, Adzan, Aamiiin, Allahuakbar, Haram, Halal, Ka’bah, Munkar, Subhanallah, Al-Qur’an, Iman, Sholat, hajj, Saum, Allah, and Masjidil Haram. Most of the lecturers used borrowed or loan words and general word-use or synonymous word strategies in translating the Islamic terms. There were some reasons for the uses of borrowing or general word-use strategies. For the use of borrowing strategy, the reasons were: first they had limited vocabularies for Islamic terms. Second, they borrowed the Islamic terms because such terms had already been common to be used in their original forms. Third, they lacked of knowledge on the translation of Islamic terms in English. Fourth, they wanted to Maintain Moslem’s identity. Subsequently, for the use of general word-use strategy or synonym, the lecturer applying this strategy had a reason that in English speaking the Islamic terms should be translated into English albeit using words with similar meanings in a general sense. Furthermore, the Islamic terms were mostly used in the classrooms and in the opening as well as closing of teaching and learning processes. Applications of this study: This research will be useful for universities, lecturers, students, and non-native English speakers that are common to be engaged in English conversations framed by Islamic discourses. Novelty/Originality of this study: Many studies as regards the English translation of Islamic terms have been conducted in the field of a written mode of translation. However, to the best of the researchers’ knowledge, very few studies have been oriented towards translation strategies of Islamic terms in a spoken mode, or in this regard, English conversations. This case is worth researching, and this research seeks to fulfill this gap.

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Translated Qurʾān euphemisms: foreignised or domesticated?

Cited by 3 publications

References 15 publications

Translatability of Ancillary Antonymy in the Qur’an: A Lexicosyntactic Approach

Translatability of Ancillary Antonymy in the Qur’an: A Lexicosyntactic Approach

Translating Semantic Cases from Qur’anic Arabic into English

Translation Strategies of Islamic Terms Used by English Lecturers in English Conversations

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