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For his master of arts in foreign languages at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwc.ac.za\/study\/faculties-and-programmes\/faculty-of-arts-and-humanities\/programmes\">UWC\u2019s Faculty of Arts and Humanities<\/a> Muzzammil Ahmad Farooki, who has just graduated, examined the linguistic, cultural and religious challenges faced by translators working across these two languages. His research was supervised by Prof Tawffeek Mohammed, with Dr Mustapha Saidi as co-supervisor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his thesis Farooki emphasised the demanding nature of this work, noting that \u201ctranslating Islamic texts and genres, including litanies, supplications and poetry is undoubtedly a rigorous task.\u201d He explained this difficulty stemmed not only from language differences but from the sacred and ideological weight of the texts themselves, many of which are derived directly from the Qur\u2019\u0101n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The study analysed a diverse corpus of Islamic texts, including devotional writings, Qur\u2019\u0101nic exegesis (tafs\u012br), prophetic traditions (\u1e25ad\u012bth), sermons, Islamic literature, legal documents and economic and media texts. Using a qualitative, corpus-based methodology, the research assessed both the translation product and process, drawing on theories of equivalence, text linguistics and cognitive translation studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-central-argument\">Central argument<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A central argument of the thesis is that translators cannot rely on a single method when rendering Islamic texts. As Farooki stated: \u201cFor the source text to be rendered in the target text successfully the translator must not only be restricted to the use of a single translation strategy, but rather to skilfully employ various translation strategies in a balanced manner so that equivalence may be achieved.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The research also demonstrated that translation challenges extend beyond grammar and vocabulary. 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