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Translating the Genre of Quran: the Challenge of translating the inimitable: Translating the Genre of Quran: the Challenge of translating the inimitable
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Abstract
The main question raised in this paper is: Is it possible to translate the ‘genre’
of Quran? And if this ‘genre’ is Quran specific, a ‘genre’ of its own, i.e. a unique one,
how can the Quranic text be translated from Arabic into English or any other
language? This question has been raising a lot of controversy among translation
theorists, linguists, philosophers and scholars of Islam and specialists in the sciences
of Arabic language let alone Quran exegetes. Scholars of the Arabic language and
scholars of Islam have argued that because of the genre of Quran is the genre of (ijaz),
translatability can never be possible. Equivalence, thus, cannot be achieved especially
if we know that so far there has been no unanimous definition of the term.
Therefore, what translators of the Quranic text are involved with is transferring
meaning of the Quranic text. But meaning (content) is encapsulated in the Form
which is distinctly and uniquely rhetorical in Quran. In other words, such an
inextricable content-form relationship should make the process of transferring
meaning not an easy one at all, especially as we know that the Quranic text is sacred
and sensitive.
Thus, the periphrastic way which has already been put forward by Raof
(2001: 6) can be seen as a convenient solution to achieve a degree of approximation
between the source text and the target text.
Having supported the notion of approximation, I opted to choose certain
verses with certain syntactic and lexical aspects from the Quran. The point is to
compare three versions of translations of each verse to see which version is most
approximate to the Quranic text of the verse. The three versions are by Abdullah
Yusuf Ali (non Arab Moslem), Marmaduke Pickthall ( a British national who
converted to Islam) and Ahl-lul-Bait institution ( a Moslem Assembly with Arabic as
mother tongue).
To support my argument, I relied on Al-Mezan Fi-Tafseer Al-Quran (Al-
Mezan Exegesis) by the Moslem scholar Mohammed Hussein Tabatabae (2006) and
the authentic monolingual Arabic Dictionary Lisan Al-Arab (Ibn Manzur: 2005 ed.4).
One main conclusion made in this paper is that the task of translating the meaning of
Quran cannot be rightfully carried out by translators on individual basis. Rather, it
must be institutionalized. There is a need for setting up a special institution entrusted
with such a meticulous job.

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Publication Date
Sat Dec 29 2018
Journal Name
Journal Of Planner And Development
(دراسة تحليلية في ظاهرة تقسيم الوحدة السكنية ( منطقة الدراسة: محلة 409 الكاظمية
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Publication Date
Mon Oct 15 2018
Journal Name
Arab Science Heritage Journal
رواد رواد علم الفلك في العصر العباسي أولاد موسى بن شاكر أنموذجاً
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Is astronomy in the Abbasid era one of the sciences that Muslims developed at that time? The restriction of students at the hands of a large number of students, which increased the development and increase the value of monitoring mechanisms and their outstanding efforts in support and development of the Arab civilization of Islam

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Mon Mar 01 2004
Journal Name
Al-academy
تقييم قابلية اداء متطلبات العمل للعاملين في الصناعة باستخدام طريقة القصور الذاتي
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تقييم قابلية اداء متطلبات العمل للعاملين في الصناعة باستخدام طريقة القصور الذاتي

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Publication Date
Wed Nov 28 2018
Journal Name
Arab Science Heritage Journal
المضامين الاقتصادية والعدل الاجتماعي في عهد الإمام علي (ع) إلى مالك الاشتر
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       This paper discusses an important part of the  doctrine documented by AL Imam Ali (God peace him) to the prince of Egypt “Malik al Ashter” Which charactrised by universality Where it comprised all of what the administ-rative facilities need of the responsibilities to handle the society issues and problems to have a fair society .  

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Publication Date
Thu Nov 01 2012
Journal Name
مجلة العلوم الادارية والاقتصادية
أستعمال التحليل الإحصائي لتقصي وضع الطفولة في العراق خلال الفترة 2006-2010
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أستعمال التحليل الإحصائي لتقصي وضع الطفولة في العراق خلال الفترة 2006-2010

Publication Date
Fri Apr 12 2019
Journal Name
Journal Of Economics And Administrative Sciences
الهبة الديموغرافية وإستثمارها في التنمية الإقتصادية رؤية واقعية للعراق بعد عام 2003
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   The relationship between population and development is one of the most interrelated relations in contemporary societies. Therefore it is important focus on the demographic aspects of the population and its integration with developmental aspects, because the population is the makers of development and responsible for its success. The population composition and their qualitative composition are important factors in development. This change in age rate is because of demographic operations which lasted for long time. The change we are talking about is happing currently in Arab cou

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Fri Aug 15 2008
Journal Name
اطروحة دكتوراه
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Sat Jan 05 2019
Journal Name
Journal Of Planner And Development
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Sat Feb 21 2026
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Publication Date
Mon Aug 01 2022
Journal Name
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Subgroups and Orbits by Companion Matrix in Three Dimensional Projective Space
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The aim of this paper is to construct cyclic subgroups of the projective general linear group over  from the companion matrix, and then form caps of various degrees in . Geometric properties of these caps as secant distributions and index distributions are given and determined if they are complete. Also, partitioned of  into disjoint lines is discussed.

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