RT Article
T1 Cultural Accommodation and the Idea of Translation
JF Oriens
VO 38
IS 1/2
SP 165
OP 184
A1 Vagelpohl, Uwe
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2010
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1821436857
AB Abstract The translations produced in the course of the Greek-Arabic translation movement of the ninth to eleventh century amply document the struggles of generations of mostly Christian translators to render an extraordinarily wide range of Greek and Syriac source texts into Arabic. When dealing with material that relied on unavailable cultural background knowledge or was, for a variety of reasons, unacceptable to the translator or his audience, translational technique alone was of little help. With a variety of examples, this paper seeks to illustrate how the translator of Aristotle’s Rhetoric dealt with such situations, how his solutions influenced the reception and commentary tradition of this work and explores the implications for an understanding of translation beyond catchwords such as “literal,” “free” and “mistranslation.”
K1 Greek-Arabic translation
K1 Talkhī kitāb al-khiāba
K1 Aristotle
K1 Rhetoric
K1 Middle Commentary
K1 Reception
K1 Ibn Rushd
DO 10.1163/187783710X536707