TRANSLATING ISLAMIC RELIGIOUS TEXTS INTO ENGLISH
Publisher: Yarub House for Publishing and Distributing
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Damascus, Syria
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 176
Description: This book is on translating Islamic religious texts from Arabic into English.  It tackles these texts as a register of special characteristics.  It does not deal with the translation of the Quran, but rather different selected texts from Prophetic Traditions and Islamic juridical ones.  Such texts have religious, literary, legal and cultural translation problems that make them difficult to translate into English.
Table of contents: title: Table of Contents; title: Dedication	3; title: Acknowledgements	4; title: Preface 	5; title: Table of Contents	6; title: List of Abbreviations (English) 	9; title: List of Abbreviations (Arabic)	10; title: List of Tables 	11; title: List of Figures	12; title: Key to Symbols of Transliteration	13; title: Introduction	14; title: Chapter One: Theoretical Perspective	17; title: 1.1.	The Concept of Register	19; title: 1.1.1.	Field of Discourse	20; title: 1.1.2.	Mode of Discourse	20; title: 1.1.3.	Tenor of Discourse	22; title: 1.2.	The Concept of Jurisprudence (Fiqh)	22; title: 1.3.	Semantic Problems	24; title: 1.4.	Culture	28; title: 1.5.	Strategies of Translation	31; title: 1.5.1.	Literal Translation	33; title: 1.5.2.	Translation Proper	34; title: 1.5.3.	Loan Blending	35; title: 1.5.4.	Acculturation	36; title: 1.5.5.	Transliteration	36; title: 1.5.5.1	Complete Transliteration	37; title: 1.5.5.2	Partial Transliteration	37; title: 1.5.6.	Translation Couplet	39; title: 1.5.7.	Translation Triplet	39; title: 1.5.8.	Definition	40; title: 1.5.9.	Paraphrasing	40; title: 1.5.10.	Addition	41; title: 1.5.11.	Deletion	43; title: Chapter Two: Translation Problems Involving Cultural Signs; title: 45; title: 2.1.	Cultural Signs	47; title: 2.2.	Proper Names	54; title: 2.2.1.	Beautiful Names of Allah	54; title: 2.2.2.	Names of Prophets and Messengers	56; title: 2.2.3.	Names of Ordinary Individuals	57; title: 2.2.4.	Names of Groups of People	59; title: 2.3.	Geographical Names	61; title: 2.4.	Technical Terms	61; title: 2.4.1.	Translation According to Context	62; title: 2.4.2.	Explanatory Translation 	64; title: 2.4.3.	Letting the Text Define the Term	65; title: 2.4.4.	Explanation in a Footnote	66; title: 2.4.5.	Using Established Translations	67; title: 2.4.6.	Translation According to a Definition in the Text; title: 67; title: 2.4.7.	Using Established Target Language Expressions; title: 68; title: 2.4.8.	Translation Proper	70; title: 2.4.9.	Partial Transliteration	70; title: 2.4.10.	Deletion	71; title: Chapter Three: Translation Problems Involving Stylistic Resources; title: 73; title: 3.1.	Rendition of Style	75; title: 3.2.	Phonological Resources	77; title: 3.2.1.	Paronomasia	78; title: 3.2.2.	Paronyms	79; title: 3.2.3.	Consonance, Assonance and Rhyme	81; title: 3.3.	Lexical Resources	83; title: 3.3.1.	Terseness	83; title: 3.3.1.1.	Brevity	84; title: 3.3.1.2.	Ellipsis	85; title: 3.3.2.	Verbosity	87; title: 3.3.3.	Idioms	91; title: 3.3.3.1.	Transparent Idioms	93; title: 3.3.3.2.	Opaque Idioms	98; title: 3.3.4.	Connotation	103; title: 3.3.4.1.	Analysis and Rendition of Connotation; title: 105; title: 3.3.4.2.	Consequences of Overlooking Connotation; title: 110; title: 3.3.5.	Abbreviations	111; title: 3.3.5.1.	Translation Proper of the Original Abbreviated Signs; title: 112; title: 3.3.5.2.	Abbreviating the TL Equivalent of the SL Sign; title: 112; title: 3.3.5.3.	Deletion	112; title: 3.3.5.4.	Transliteration	112; title: Chapter Four: Questionnaire	115; title: 4.1.	Procedure	122; title: 4.2.	The Strategy of Addition	122; title: 4.3.	The Strategy of Deletion	122; title: 4.4.	Abbreviation of a Transliterated Word	125; title: 4.5.	The Strategy of Transliteration	127; title: 4.6.	Translating a Term According to a Definition in the Text; title: 134; title: 4.7.	Results	136; title: Chapter Five: Criticism, Assessments and Conclusions 	139; title: 5.1.	Criticism and Assessments	141; title: 5.2.	Conclusions	146; title: References	150; title: Appendices	158; title: Glossary	162