Coherence in the Translation of Al-Ghazali's: Al-Munqidh Min Ad-Dalal
A Master of Arts thesis in Translation and Interpreting (English/Arabic/English) by Omama Almurad entitled, "Coherence in the Translation of Al-Ghazali's: Al-Munqidh Min Ad-Dalal." Thesis advisor is Dr. Basil Hatim and it was submitted in June 2011. Available are both hard and soft co...
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| dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv | al-Ghazali text sentence coherence Translating and interpreting Translators Munqidh min al-dalal Ghazzali, 1058-1111 Arab countries |
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| description | A Master of Arts thesis in Translation and Interpreting (English/Arabic/English) by Omama Almurad entitled, "Coherence in the Translation of Al-Ghazali's: Al-Munqidh Min Ad-Dalal." Thesis advisor is Dr. Basil Hatim and it was submitted in June 2011. Available are both hard and soft copies of the thesis. |
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| spelling | Coherence in the Translation of Al-Ghazali's: Al-Munqidh Min Ad-DalalAlmurad, Omamaal-GhazalitextsentencecoherenceTranslating and interpretingTranslatorsMunqidh min al-dalalGhazzali, 1058-1111Arab countriesA Master of Arts thesis in Translation and Interpreting (English/Arabic/English) by Omama Almurad entitled, "Coherence in the Translation of Al-Ghazali's: Al-Munqidh Min Ad-Dalal." Thesis advisor is Dr. Basil Hatim and it was submitted in June 2011. Available are both hard and soft copies of the thesis.This thesis discusses translators' sensitivity towards argumentative classical texts. One major assumption this research intends to question is the ongoing debate of "translation as a cohesive string of words" vs. "translation as coherent whole texts" as presented in the rendered arguments of the Sufi master al-Ghazali. This broaches the second assumption, which questions the overlap between the oral and the literal in al-Ghazali's arguments. Moreover, this also raises the issue of the competency of native and non-native translators in transferring a sound argument across languages. The thesis at hand posits that translation is a delicate process and thus, "discourse awareness" and "text-type awareness" are considered essential in relaying a coherent text. Furthermore, al-Ghazali's argumentation style cannot be said to be fixed as either "oral" or "literal", it is a blend of both. A non-native translator might be bilingual, but is not necessarily bicultural and hence, is often incapable of depicting how different languages handle rebuttal differently. In order to examine whether these argumentative texts shed their orality after being translated into a literal language, a translation quality assessment is carried out. The data examined consists of six excerpts from al-Ghazali's book, al-Munqidh min ad-Dalal "The Deliverance from Error", translated by two native English speakers, McCarthy and Watt, and one non-native speaker, Abulaylah. It is concluded that languages and cultures represent different mindsets which double the responsibility of translators. Knowledge of language is not enough, cultural, social, religious and ethical considerations need to be taken into account.College of Arts and SciencesDepartment of Arabic and Translation StudiesMaster of Arts in English/Arabic/English Translation and Interpreting (MATI)Hatim, Basil2012-01-23T08:23:13Z2012-01-23T08:23:13Z2011-06info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesisapplication/pdfapplication/pdfapplication/pdfapplication/pdf29.232-2011.20http://hdl.handle.net/11073/2760en_USoai:repository.aus.edu:11073/27602025-06-26T12:36:58Z |
| spellingShingle | Coherence in the Translation of Al-Ghazali's: Al-Munqidh Min Ad-Dalal Almurad, Omama al-Ghazali text sentence coherence Translating and interpreting Translators Munqidh min al-dalal Ghazzali, 1058-1111 Arab countries |
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| title | Coherence in the Translation of Al-Ghazali's: Al-Munqidh Min Ad-Dalal |
| title_full | Coherence in the Translation of Al-Ghazali's: Al-Munqidh Min Ad-Dalal |
| title_fullStr | Coherence in the Translation of Al-Ghazali's: Al-Munqidh Min Ad-Dalal |
| title_full_unstemmed | Coherence in the Translation of Al-Ghazali's: Al-Munqidh Min Ad-Dalal |
| title_short | Coherence in the Translation of Al-Ghazali's: Al-Munqidh Min Ad-Dalal |
| title_sort | Coherence in the Translation of Al-Ghazali's: Al-Munqidh Min Ad-Dalal |
| topic | al-Ghazali text sentence coherence Translating and interpreting Translators Munqidh min al-dalal Ghazzali, 1058-1111 Arab countries |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11073/2760 |