28.2997, Books: Hermeneutics and the Problem of Translating Traditional Arabic Texts: Aly Ismail

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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 13:17:31
From: Chris Humphrey [chumphrey at c-s-p.org]
Subject: Hermeneutics and the Problem of Translating Traditional Arabic Texts: Aly Ismail

Title: Hermeneutics and the Problem of Translating Traditional Arabic
Texts 
Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
	   http://www.cambridgescholars.com/

Book URL: http://www.cambridgescholars.com/hermeneutics-and-the-problem-of-translating-traditional-arabic-texts 

Author: Alsayed M. Aly Ismail

Hardback: ISBN:  9781443895941 Pages: 170 Price: U.K. £ 58.99
Hardback: ISBN:  9781443895941 Pages: 170 Price: U.S. $ 99.95

Abstract:

This book focuses on the problematic issues arising when translating and
interpreting classical Arabic texts, which represent a challenging business
for many scholars, especially with regards to religious texts. Additionally,
the reception of these interpretations and translations not only informs the
perception of Muslims and their awareness of the outside world, but also
impacts the vision and perception of non-Muslims of Islam and the Muslim
world.

Consequently, this book reconsiders the concepts of understanding and
interpretation, and their nexus in the mechanism of translation, and proposes
a novel, hermeneutic method of translating, interpreting, and understanding
traditional and classical Arab texts. Handling the issues of understanding
from a hermeneutical perspective is shown here to remove the possibility of
translation and interpretation rendering a distorted translated text. Drawing
on the powerful interpretive theories of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Martin
Heidegger, the hermeneutic method of translation starts from a premise that
the meaning of a classical text cannot be deduced solely by linguistic
analysis of its words, but requires in-depth investigation of the invisible,
contextual elements that control and shape its meaning. Traditional texts are
seen in this model as ‘travelling texts’ whose meaning is transformed across
time and space. 

The hermeneutic method of translation allows the translator to identify those
elements from the real-world that informed a classical text at the time of its
writing, so that it can be adapted and made relevant to its contemporary
context. Traditional texts can enlighten our minds and cultivate our souls;
religious texts can elevate our behavior and thinking, and help refine our
confused contemporary lives. When texts become isolated from their world, they
lose this lofty goal of enlightenment and elevation.

Linguistic Field(s): Translation

Subject Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)

Written In: English  (eng)

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