Difficulties facing English majors at Mutah University in translating the hadith from Arabic into English

Other Title(s)

الصعوبات التي تواجه طلبة اللغة الانجليزية في جامعة مؤتة عند ترجمة الحديث من اللغة العربية إلى الانجليزية

Dissertant

al-Shamayleh, Abd Allah Mahmud

Thesis advisor

al-Najadat, Jumah Said

Comitee Members

al-Sakarnah, Ahmad Khalaf
Abd al-Haqq, Fawwaz Muhammad
al-Khawlidah, Muhammad Irshiad

University

Mutah University

Faculty

Faculty of Arts

Department

Department of English Language and Literature

University Country

Jordan

Degree

Master

Degree Date

2014

English Abstract

-This study aims at investigating the difficulties facing English majors when translating Hadiths from Arabic into English.

Thirty Hadiths were selected mainly from the Hadith book "Rijad Alsalehhen min Kalaam Sajid Almorsaleen" " by Alnawawy .A test was designed and distributed to forty English majors enrolls in "Translation 2" course in English Language department in the first semester in the academic year (2014-2015) to translate.

Then, their translations were compared to the Hadiths translations on the web site; Sunnah.

Com. The results of the study reveals that most of the students could not produce adequate translations for the given Hadiths as they faced difficulties while translating .These difficulties were mostly due to the lack of appropriate equivalence for the Islamic terms in English, the students misunderstanding for the intended message, the students overlooking for the differences between English and Arabic and the students tendency to use the literal translation. Further, the study confirms the idea that the translator of Hadith should use the ideational equivalence, i.e.

non-literal translation, which focuses on transferring the meaning in translating Hadith rather than using the formal equivalence .Finally, the study has given recommendations for the English language departments, teachers of translation and for further research in the variety problems that face the translator when translating religious texts.

Main Subjects

Educational Sciences
Languages & Comparative Literature

Topics

• Education
• Learning
• Second language learning
• Jordan
• English language

No. of Pages

46

Table of Contents

• APA
• MLA
• AMA

Language

English

Data Type

Arab Theses

Record ID

BIM-556653