Problems of Literal Translation in Translating Selected Quranic Verses into English
Ahmed Wael Hazim Al Banki
University of Mosul/ Collage of Education for Humanities
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25130/Lang.9.1.16
Keywords: Translation Accuracy, literal Translation, Quranic Interpretations
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.
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