إشكالية ترجمة مصطلحات الشريعة الإسلامية (القانون الإسلامي)‎ من العربية إلى الفرنسية

Abstract EN

Through this article we address the problem of translating legal terms used in the Algerian family code, derived from Sharia or Islamic law, translated from Arabic into French.

These terms are found in official documents that are translated in the sworn translation offices approved by the Algerian Ministry of Justice.

The aim of this study is to search for a solution that enables the translation of legal terms for which we do not find correspondences in the target language, and what are the procedures, techniques, or strategies applied to overcome the difficulties and obstacles that result from the inability to translate these terms.

This proposal tackles a double problem.

On the one hand, it raises general questions about the methodology of translation, which are questions that the translator must adapt to, despite being independent in the scope of his/her intervention.

On the other hand, this category of translations requires specific knowledge in the legal field related to the administrative and judicial institutions of the country of the source language, as well as knowledge of those institutions in the countries of the target language.

Thus, the translator generally faces, by shifting from one legal culture to another, starting from the initial text, the problem of legal incompatibility between the terms used in the source text and those used in the target text language.