Translating Cultures in the Arab World

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New Histories and Geographies

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Av Moneera Al-Ghadeer, Charles Forsdick, Andreas Karatsolis

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Translating Cultures in the Arab World: New Histories and Geographies, significantly expands translation studies by unearthing overlooked discussions and reconceptualizing the history and movements of translation. It moves beyond a Western-centric and Anglonormative research perspective by beginning with the Middle East and the Arabic language, critically engaging with scholarship from the Arab world, including the Gulf region and the Global South. This provides a more inclusive and representative theorization of translating cultures for the twenty-first century. It features contributions from leading scholars that challenge previous interpretations and highlight translation’s crucial role in reshaping the translational humanities and Middle Eastern studies.The text addresses critical issues, including the philosophy of translation, the dialectical relationship between translation and culture, the complexities of untranslatability, and the pivotal role of translation within specific historical and cultural contexts, such as Medieval Islamic cookbooks, the Arab world in sixteenth-century Islamic Spain, epistemic translation in the Arab Renaissance (Nahḍa), the First Saudi Opera, Zarqa Al Yamama, and the contemporary proliferation of translational spaces within the Gulf region. The volume thus serves as an essential intervention, urging scholars to interrogate how knowledge is constructed, contested, and reconfigured in global and translational contexts.As a comprehensive examination of translating cultures at the intersection of historical analysis, theoretical exploration, and global cultural exchange, this volume serves as an essential resource for scholars and students in translation studies, comparative literature, Middle Eastern studies, and related fields.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-05-20
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor260
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781041144939

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Moneera Al-Ghadeer holds the UNESCO Chair in Translating Cultures at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. She was a Visiting Professor at Columbia University and Harvard University, as well as a tenured professor at the University of Wisconsin-MadisonCharles Forsdick is Drapers Professor of French at University of Cambridge and Lead Fellow for Languages at the British Academy.Andreas Karatsolis is a Senior Lecturer and the permanent Director of Writing, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication (WRAP) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a program which supports the communication needs of all undergraduate MIT students.

Table of ContentsList of ContributorsAcknowledgementIntroduction: Rethinking Translating Cultures and the Arab WorldMoneera Al-GhadeerPart I - Translating Cultures: Theoretical Frameworks and Foundational Concepts1. The Importance of Translation for the Study of CulturesSusan Bassnett2. Translating Cultures: Origins and Future DirectionsCharles Forsdick3. Planetary Concept Work: Philology, Untranslatables, Language JusticeEmily Apter4. Philosophy and Translation in the Arab WorldAbdessalam BenabdelaliPart II- Translating Cultures in the Gulf Region: Case Studies and Emerging Paradigms5. The Specter of Un-translatability and the First Saudi Opera, Zarqa al-YamamaMoneera Al-Ghadeer6. Arabophone Cultures of Translation: Patterns and Factors for their EmergenceAndreas Karatsolis and Mohammed AlsudairiPart III- Historical Perspectives on Cultural and Translational Movements7. Rethinking Translating Cultures: Cultural Translation and Appropriation in 16th-Century Islamic SpainOvidi Carbonell Cortes8. Epistemic Translation: The Case of al-ʾintiqād by Ya’qub ṢarrūfHaifa Saud Alfaisal9. Cultural Confluence: Loanwords as Vessels of Culinary and Cultural Exchange in Medieval Islamic Cookbooks: A Pilot StudyDima Abdul-Jabbar10. Cultural Confluence: Loanwords as Vessels of Culinary and Cultural Exchange in Cookbooks from the Islamic Golden Age: A Pilot StudyDima Abdulmajeed AbduljabbarIndex

"The volume reconceptualizes the history and movements of translation, beginning with the Middle East and the Arabic language, thus moving beyond a Western-centric and Anglo normative research perspective. Apart from translation studies, it will no doubt be useful for scholars working in discourse analysis, history, sociology, politics, and other related subjects."-África Vidal Claramonte, Professor in Translation Studies, The University of Salamanca"In its urgent call for re-entering the Arab-Islamic world epistemologically and methodologically, this book is a signal contribution to translation studies in the Arab world, poised to broaden the philosophical scope of its theorizing and to deepen its historical reach."-Waïl S. Hassan, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign"This fascinating series of theoretical interventions and richly informed case studies is a major re-mapping of the discipline of Translation Studies. Bringing together leading critics and theorists from Eurocentric and Arabic traditions, the volume underscores how foundational Arabic translation is to Western humanism and world culture generally."Michael Syrotinski, Marshall Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Director, Centre for Comparative Literature and Translation, University of Glasgow