Cultural Accommodation and the Idea of Translation

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.UweVagelpohlCultural Accommodation and the Idea of Translationhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/YHYCH2GRhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/YHYCH2GRhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/YHYCH2GROriens38:1-22010165-184The 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.” Vagelpohl, Uwe. “Cultural Accommodation and the Idea of Translation.” Oriens 38:1-2 (2010): 165–84. Uwe Vagelpohl, Cultural Accommodation and the Idea of Translation, Oriens 38:1-2 (2010): 165–84.Arab ChristiansAristotleGreek philosophyMuslim-Christian relationsSyriac influence [Arabs]VII-XVIII CErhetorictranslations from Greektranslations into Arabic