Towards a new Arabic theory in translating the meanings of the Glorious Qur’an
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https://doi.org/10.31185/lark.4540Keywords:
Quranic discourse, strategies, technique, Emphasizing Qur’anic Foreignization, Arabic Domestication.Abstract
Generally, Domestication and foreignization are important techniques in translation process. Pragmatically, the two techniques have been employed in literary and religious studies. Therefore, the new translation of the Glorious Qur’an is in need for those two techniques to render the divine content of Qur’an into the other languages. They should be employed in a path guarantees the semantic, phonetic and divine features in the target languages.
This study focuses on deriving new two techniques of domestication and foreignization. However, they will be benefiting to render the divine content of the Glorious Qur’an into the other languages. Yet, they are: the emphasizing Qur’anic foreignization and the Arabic domestication. The first is adopting rendering the divine content of the Glorious Qur’an in a way preserves on the semantic and phonetic features. The second is focusing on adopting the Arabic domestication through rendering the divine content according to the culture and environment of Makkah and Al-Madinah.[1]
The suggested Theory of the study will assist in obtaining many advantages. The Most important are: revelation
- Concentrating the divine discourse in the translation of the target languages.
- Strengthening and the wide spreading of the Arabic language through the employing of the two techniques.
- Works as resistance against the traditional theories and strategies which have approved its weakness in rendering the Qur’anic discourse into the other languages.
- Preserving on the Islamic Arabic culture and making it seen by the world.
[1] Makkah and Al-Madinah, two Arabic Holy cities which witnessed the prophethood of Mohammed peace be upon him, and witnessed the revelation of the Holy Qur’an.
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