{"product_id":"eastern-luminaries-disclosed-to-western-eyes","title":"Eastern Luminaries Disclosed to Western Eyes","description":"This book studies and evaluates the different translations of the \u003ci\u003eMu‘allaqāt\u003c\/i\u003e, seven canonical pre-Islamic odes, from Arabic into English and French. First, it introduces the \u003ci\u003eMu‘allaqāt\u003c\/i\u003e and the chief controversies related to their study in both Eastern and Western scholarship. It then presents the translators of the \u003ci\u003eMu‘allaqāt\u003c\/i\u003e and their translations and closes with two typologies of the translations and translators presented. A number of criteria for the evaluation of translations of poetry are developed.\u003cbr\u003e The book provides a comparative study of the English and French translations of the \u003ci\u003eMu‘allaqāt\u003c\/i\u003e with a focus on a number of communicative priorities in the source text, based on stylistic devices that require a sound awareness of the culture of pre-Islamic Arabia, the main setting of the \u003ci\u003eMu‘allaqāt\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e The author assesses the reliability of the criteria of evaluation and the translatability of the \u003ci\u003eMu‘allaqāt\u003c\/i\u003e as a text that is remote from its translators in time, in place, and with respect to literary tradition.","brand":"Verlag Peter Lang","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54260143227224,"sku":"9783039110148","price":69.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9783039110148_40cb816a-6f81-40bb-8545-8fb004ad8afb.jpg?v=1777828522","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/eastern-luminaries-disclosed-to-western-eyes","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}