Brief History of Translation Experience in Malaysia: A Case of Arabic Malay's Translation (Report) - Studies in Literature and Language

Brief History of Translation Experience in Malaysia: A Case of Arabic Malay's Translation (Report)

By Studies in Literature and Language

  • Release Date: 2010-05-31
  • Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines

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1. INTRODUCTION Translation as defined by most scholars could be concluded as "a process of content (information) and form (language) transfers". The works of translation to the extent are to transfer a sum of knowledge from one source to the other. Translation as mentioned by most of scholars is a process of civilization exchange. After all, almost all civilizations were indebted to each others. Arabs transferred technology, philosophy and astronomy from several civilizations around them especially Greek, Chinese and India. Europe, after the "Dark Ages" had actively been working on translating books from Arab civilization. This is clear in the statement noted by Edwards Grants (1996):