Translating the Qur'an in Indonesia: Marrying the Concept of Transcreation and Critical Discourse Analysis
Fahmi Gunawan,
Batmang Batmang,
Saad Boulahnane
Abstract:Despite the growing concerns of research discussing transcreation in translation studies from various perspectives, little empirical evidence reported the transcreation in Quranic translation as a religious sacred text. To fill this void, the present study aims to elucidate Qur'an translation in Indonesia from the perspective of trancreation and critical discourse analysis. The data were collected via observation of translations of Quranic verses which contain transcreation. The findings suggest that Quranic t… Show more
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