Translating Ḥanbalī Sharīʿa Code from Arabic into English

ISBN-13: 9783659428395 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 372 str.

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Opis

This book is a translation of the legal articles pertaining to the books of sale, hire and loan from Majallat al-Aḥkām al-Sharʿiyya, which is considered the first codified corpus of the Islamic Ḥanbalī school of law, followed by a study examining and analysing issues related to the source and target texts. The importance of the book stems from the fact that it includes in its first part an English translation of all Ḥanbalī rulings related to the law of transactions. It then studies in its second part crucial issues contained in the Arabic source text, such as the transformation of the language of juristic Islamic texts into legal codes. The last section of the second part of the book is devoted to the exploration and analysis of different linguistic and cultural issues and problems associated with the translation of Arabic legal codes into legal English. Lawyers, linguists, translation scholars, legal translators and others may find this book particularly useful as it addresses issues relevant to their work and interest.

O autorze

I work as an assistant professor in translation studies, TESOL, and legal translation in the Department of European Languages and Literature, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. I have obtained two MAs and a PhD in legal translation from the University of London.