Translation: When Communicating Across Cultures And Religions

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to bring together translation, culture, religion and communication and without which interreligious and intercultural exchanges could not happen. The paper starts with shedding light on the importance of translation through which communication is achieved between multilingual and multicultural faith-communities, followed by an analysis of the strategies which would be relevant to the translation of culture and religion specific concepts in terms of intercultural and interreligious communication. Then the analysis moves to the translation of both some concepts and sentences from Arabic and English. Here we find examples that cannot be rendered into the other language simply for lack of the religious or cultural equivalent. Thus, the skill and the intervention of the translator are most needed in this respect, because above all translation is an act of communication.