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Translating the Genre of Quran the Challenge of Translating the Inimitable

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By Ina’m Najim Jaber

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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