Journal of Language Studies
Tikrit University

Problems of Literal Translation in Translating Selected Quranic Verses into English

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Ahmed Wael Hazim Al Banki

University of Mosul, Collage of Education for Humanities

https://doi.org/10.25130/Lang.9.1.16
Abstract
This research demonstrates the concept of accurate translation and its effect on the translation of Quranic verses in general for target readers. This research aims to serve Allah's Book, “the Noble Quran”, and it helps TL readers to understand the correct and accurate meanings of the verses, besides it shows the degree of accuracy for Quranic translators. This study hypothesizes that the TL readers are influenced by the translation issues, difficulties in finding out the correct meanings in some Quranic verses resulted from misinterpreting these verses by translators, while some the translators did not pay attention to the Quranic interpretations of the noble Quran, and most of them use the literal translation, this will often lead to inaccurate translations. This research presents six verses with non-typical cases, and it presents the known interpretations of Ibn Katheer, Ibn Abbas, and Al-Zamakhshari to obtain the correct meanings for the selected verses, also, it selects five translators for analysis. and it suggests new translations when necessary. This research reached some results; the most important is the one relying on the interpretations of the Noble Quran which is a necessity to know the correct meaning.

Keywords

literal translation
Quranic Interpretations
Translation Accuracy
Crossmark
Journal of Language Studies
Volume 9, Issue 1
Winter 2025
Pages 280-290

  • Receive Date 03 January 2025
  • Accept Date 16 February 2025
  • Publish Date 01 March 2025

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