The Translation into Arabic between Linguistic Mediation and the Difficult Cultural Assimilation in the Abbasid Period
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https://doi.org/10.24310/TRANS.2020.v0i24.8195Keywords:
translation, acculturation, Greek, Syriac, Persian, ArabicAbstract
The translation movement of the Early Middle Ages, in which materials were translated into Arabic either directly or via the mediation of other languages such as Syriac or Persian, involved not just the translation of texts but also the appropriation and transformation of scientific knowledge in an unprecedented process of acculturation. Against this backdrop, the present study poses the following question: to what extent did translation contribute to the development of the Arab-islamic thought of the Classical period? We apply an analytical and critical method based on sources written mostly in Arabic. The study concludes with the emergence of two ideological camps inside Arab-islamic culture: on the one hand, the conservatives, who appropriated the cultural legacy of the "ancestors" (salaf) and the translations produced in a process of acculturation and assimilation; and on the other, the moderates, who sought to master new methods of knowledge independently of the traditional inheritance.
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