Translation of culture-specific items related to eschatology in the noble Qur'ān

Abstract EN

This paper aims at investigating the strategies used in translating Culture-Specific Items (CSIs) related to Eschatology in the Noble Qur‟ān.

It also pinpoints the problems arising from employing these strategies and shows how translators could tackle them.

Besides, it pays close attention to the accuracy of conveying the exact meaning of the Qur‟ānic message and sheds some light on meaning loss that occurs while conveying some CSIs.

Furthermore, the paper outlines the reasons for the choices made when creating a text adapted for the English Language.

In order to recognize the purposes of the paper, the researcher adopts an eclectic approach that is a combination of text-analysis translation oriented approaches.

The paper concludes that translators of eschatological items are unconsciously influenced by their religious, social, and cultural backgrounds.

It also finds that most translators tend to use general words instead of employing lexemes that demonstrate the connotative meanings of the eschatological items