Translation problem: typology of translation strategies, genre specificity, and literary processing
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Abstract
The article is devoted to a lingua-hermeneutic analysis of translation strategies applied when translating Arabic-script Old Tatar written monuments of the late 19th and early 20th centuries into Russian. At the intersection of translation studies, Oriental textology, and Islamic studies, the authors explore the dilemma of the relationship between form and content in texts of high sacred and ethnographic density. Based on the manuscript of A. Umari (1926) and the work of R. Fakhretdinov (1903), typical lexico-semantic deviations and errors of literal calquing are classified. The paratextual layer is substantiated as a tool for the de-conservation of implicit meanings, alongside the method of literary editing within the framework of linguo-didactic adaptation of the Quranic narrative for children.
Keywords:
hajname, Islamic discourse, linguo-didactics, Old Tatar language, paratext, pragmatic adaptation, translation strategies, translation studies
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Khasavnekh A.A. Translation problem: typology of translation strategies, genre specificity and literary processing // Bulletin of the Bolgar Islamic Academy, 2026, no. 1 (13), pp. 80-109.
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