Arabic Language and Literature
Sayyed Esmaeil Ghasemi Musavi
Abstract
There is a lack of books in Arabic language translation studies in the field of translation theories; therefore, there is an absolute need to write new books and critics available books. “Derasat fi Nazariyat Al-Tarjomah Fi Daow Al-Khobrat BE Aal-Loqhat Al-Arabiat” written by Mehmed Kico ...
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There is a lack of books in Arabic language translation studies in the field of translation theories; therefore, there is an absolute need to write new books and critics available books. “Derasat fi Nazariyat Al-Tarjomah Fi Daow Al-Khobrat BE Aal-Loqhat Al-Arabiat” written by Mehmed Kico and translated into Arabic by Jamal Al-Din Syed Mohammad is one of that sources. This book is important not only because of its subject. The author is an Arabic-Bosnian translator, and it has been written without focusing on Western European languages, including English, and French in translation theories. The present article analyzes this book in an analytical method and attempts to examine its form, content, and its abality to be teached in Arabic traanslation studies principle. The most important results of this paper are the importance of the subject and the viewpoint of the writer, expressesing issues in translation theories, a notation to issues of translation from/into Arabic, diminish of Eurocentric perspective in concepts, use of numerous and various sources. The weaknesses also include overlapping of some content, lack of education and learning outcomes, not referring to some of the important topics in translation studies such as evaluating translation quality, and discourse analysis.
political science
Shervin Moghimi; Yashar Jeirani
Volume 18, Issue 6 , December 2018, , Pages 255-269
Abstract
This paper is a review of Javad Tabatabee's book titled A Consideration of the Translation of Modern Political Thought' Texts: A Case Study of Machiavell's Prince. In this book, Tabatabaee argues that two main factors of unreliable translation in the field of political philosophy are translator's ...
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This paper is a review of Javad Tabatabee's book titled A Consideration of the Translation of Modern Political Thought' Texts: A Case Study of Machiavell's Prince. In this book, Tabatabaee argues that two main factors of unreliable translation in the field of political philosophy are translator's artistic playing with words and his lack of knowledge about current and important interpretations of major works of political philosophy. In this paper, we argue that Tabatabaee's claims are for the most part plausible. Nevertheless, it seems that Tabatabaee ignores another important factor responsible for unreliable translations, i.e., translator's alteration of literal translation of philosopher's text by virtue of his assurance that he has a sufficient understanding of philosopher's meaning. Therefore, we try to argue that even if we observe two main conditions of good translation mentioned by Tabatabaee, this will not necessarily lead to a reliable translation. Thus, in addition to Tabatabaee's two main conditions, the translator also must observe the literal approach in translating philosophical texts.
