Onomastics, dealing with culture-specific terms, poses great challenges for literary translators, especially for translators of sacred texts. Translating God's Names requires profound cultural knowledge. The paper investigated procedures of translating God's Names in English translations of the Glorious Qur'an by adopting Liang's (2016) model. After identifying the equivalents of proper names in 26 English translations, the procedures used for rendering them were identified. Finally, the general tendencies of procedures were specified. The findings revealed that two procedures used by the...
Onomastics, dealing with culture-specific terms, poses great challenges for literary translators, especially for translators of sacred texts. Translat...