The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Translation

<p>Translation-related activities from and into Arabic have significantly increased in the last few years, in both scope and scale. The launch of a number of national translation projects, policies and awards in a number of Arab countries, together with the increasing translation from Arabic in a wide range of subject areas outside the Arab World – especially in the aftermath of the Arab Spring – have complicated and diversified the dynamics of the translation industry involving Arabic. </p><p>The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Translation seeks to explicate Arabic translation practice, pedagogy and scholarship, with the aim of producing a state-of-the-art reference book that maps out these areas and meets the pedagogical and research needs of advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as active researchers.</p> <p>INTRODUCTION The reality of Arabic translation and interpreting</p><p>PART I TRANSLATING THE SACRED CHAPTER ONE Debates around the translation of the Qur’an: between jurisprudence and translation studies CHAPTER TWO Translating the Divine: A relevance-theoretic account of lexical-pragmatic adjustment in translating some Qur’anic concepts CHAPTER THREE Translating sacred sounds: encoding <em>tajwīd </em>rules in automatically generated IPA transcriptions of Quranic Arabic CHAPTER FOUR On the periphery: translations of the Qurʾān in Sweden, Denmark and Norway CHAPTER FIVE The Bible in Qurʾanic language: Manuscript Sinai Arabic 310 as a case study <b>PART II TRANSLATION, MEDIATION AND IDEOLOGY </b>CHAPTER SIX Reframing Conflict in Translation CHAPTER SEVEN Ideological and evaluative shifts in media translation/trans-editing CHAPTER EIGHT Translation, Twitter, and the 3 July 2013 military intervention in Egypt CHAPTER NINE The socio-dynamics of translating human rights news: a critical discourse analysis approach CHAPTER TEN Translating Tahrir: from praxis to theory with Tahrir Documents CHAPTER ELEVEN Translating images of the 2011 Syrian Revolution: a contratextual approach CHAPTER TWELVE Audiovisual translation studies in the Arab World: the road ahead <b>PART III TRANSLATORS’ AGENCY </b>CHAPTER THIRTEEN Egyptian interrogation records: considerations for translation CHAPTER FOURTEEN Translating Political Islam: Agency in the English translation of Hassan Al-Banna’s <i>Towards the Light </i>نحو النور into English CHAPTER FIFTEEN <em>Kalīla and Dimna</em> as a case study: the Ibn al-Muqaffa‘ and Nasrullāh Munshī translations CHAPTER SIXTEEN Beyond assimilation and othering: theatre translation and the translator’s agency <b>PART IV TRANSLATION HISTORY/HISTORIOGRAPHY </b>CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Mapping an Arabic discourse on translation CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Theorizing about translation in the Abbasid era: an alternative account CHAPTER NINETEEN The archaeology of translating for Arab children (1950–1998) <b>PART V INTERPRETING: THEORIZING PRACTICE </b>CHAPTER TWENTY Modern Standard Arabic as a target language in simultaneous interpreting: cognitive strains and pedagogical implications CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Specificities of Training and Professional Practice of Arabic Simultaneous Interpreting: the Arabic-Spanish Language Combination CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO An investigation of cognitive efforts in simultaneous interpreting into Arabic: A case study of Egyptian undergraduate students <b>PART VI TECHNICAL TRANSLATION: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES </b>CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Translating Arabic Named Entities into English and Spanish: translation consistency at the United Nations CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR A survey of the uptake of CAT tools in Oman: facts and implications <b>PART VII LANGUAGE, GENRE AND TRANSLATION </b>CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Translating tropes between Arabic and English CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX Translation of Self-Help Literature into Arabic: A Preliminary Inquiry CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN Hòanān al-Shaykh’s <em>Innahā Lundun Yā ‘Azīzī</em>: when voice-granting canonicity subverts the writer’s voice</p>