The (Un)Translatability of Quranic Idiomatic Phrasal Verbs - 9780367132958

Taylor & Francis

The (Un)Translatability of Quranic Idiomatic Phrasal VerbsA Contrastive Linguistic Study\nAuthor(s): Ali Yunis Aldahesh\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367132958, 978-0367132958\nSynopsis\nQuranic idiomaticity, in its all aspects, poses a great deal of challenge to Quran readers, learners, commentators, and translators. One of the most challenging aspects of Quranic idiomaticity is Quranic idiomatic phrasal verbs, where significances of proper Arabic verbs are entirely fused with significances of prepositions following them to produce new significances that have nothing to do with the basic significances of those verbs and prepositions.\n\nBy examining a corpus of ten of the most influential English translations of the Quran, this study scrutinizes how some translators of the Quran have dealt with the phenomenon of Quranic idiomatic phrasal verbs, the difficulties that they have encountered when translating them.