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debates, the argument that other languages are incapable of adequately representing the Arabic sourceand thus that translating the Qur'an into other languages should not be permittedoccupies a central position. Was there a theological revolution? Or does the opposition to Qur'an translation lie in the radical change in how the act of translation has come to be interpreted in the modern period? By engaging with these questions, this chapter offers some preliminary considerations for a broader study of practices of Qur'an translation among non-Arabophone Muslims. It draws on examples from the history of translations into Turkic languages and delineates major phases that informed the relationship between the sacred text, literary traditions and vernacular languages. The goal of this chapter is twofold. First, I aim to bring together scholarship on Qur'an translations into Turkic languages, which has so far been dispersed across a range of fields (linguistics, history, and to a lesser extent, theology), scholarly traditions (Soviet, Turkish, European/Western), and generations of scholars (with peaks of academic output in the 1960-70s, the early 2000s, and the late 2010s). The point of

Author

Gulnaz Sibgatullina, Gerard Wiegers

Publisher

de Gruyter GmbH, Walter

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9783111140841