Cultural and Semantic Challenges in Arberry’s Translation of the Qur’anic Dialogue: The Dialogue between God and Moses

Abstract

This paper examines cultural and semantic challenges in translating Qur’anic dialogue from Arabic to English. Using Arthur Arberry’s translation as a case study, this study aims: to find Arberry's translation strategies to render Qur’anic dialogue between God and Moses from Arabic into English, and assess whether these strategies are successful in revealing the intended message. This study compares Arberry’s translation with al-Hilālī and Khān's to examine the differences in translation between a non-Muslim Arabist translator of English origin and Muslim translators of Arabic and non-Arabic origin. The study assumes that the cultural background of the translators affects the accuracy of the ..