Systematisation and margins of the translation of the sciences of the ancient into Arabic

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Published: May 6, 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6035/MonTI.2023.15.09
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Translation, Ancient sciences, Ideology, Mashriq, Al-Andalus

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Abdallah Tagourramt El Kbaich
Universitat de Barcelona

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This article presents a critical study of the systematisation and the margins of the transmission of the sciences of the ancients into Arabic during the Middle Ages. To address this analysis, we will first focus on the dream of Caliph al-Ma’mūn that gave rise to the first translation project in the Arab-Islamic world. Secondly, we will examine the unpublished translation theories that al-Ŷāḥiz placed at the service of al-Ma’mūn’s project. Thirdly, we will explore the close relationship that these theories had with the Mu‘tazil. doctrine adopted by the political institutions to accelerate the process of transmission of the Greek scientific legacy to Arabic. Finally, we will analysethe ideological causes of the decline of translation in Eastern Islam and how the translation heritage became the raw material for the translation circle created in the Islamic West to transmit the scientific knowledge of the ancients to the Latin world.


translation heritage became the raw material for the translation circle created in the


Islamic West to transmit the scientific knowledge of the ancients to the Latin world.

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Tagourramt El Kbaich, A. (2023). Systematisation and margins of the translation of the sciences of the ancient into Arabic . MonTI. Monographs in Translation and Interpreting, (15), 240–272. https://doi.org/10.6035/MonTI.2023.15.09
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Abdallah Tagourramt El Kbaich, Universitat de Barcelona

Abdallah Tagourramt El Kbaich is a research professor at the University of Barcelona (UB), where he obtained a doctorate in Linguistic, Literary and Cultural Studies. He is currently carrying out a Margarita Salas postdoctoral research stay at the Faculty of Translation and Interpretation of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). His areas of interest are translation and the construction of cultural identities. He has published several works in Spanish and Arabic on the subject (Institut Supérieur Arabe de Traduction de Algiers 2017; Icaria 2018; Trans. Revista de traductología 24, 2020; Bellaterra 2022). He is a member of the research groups Cartographies Literàries de la Mediterrània-UB; Mediation, Interpretation and Research in l’Àmbit Social-UAB. He has participated in various research projects, such as The social construction of the inter-Mediterranean space and its correlations in the thematic agenda of the media (CSO2012-35955); Construction of identities, gender and artistic creation on the margins of the Arab world (FFI2014-58487-P); Construction of Contemporary Literary Identity (2017SGR1678); and Gender(s) and Language(s) in Contemporary Arabism (PGC2018-100959-B-100).

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