Translating the Qur'ān in Sub-Saharan Africa

Dynamics and Disputes

Bibliographic Data

ID3932896
AuthorsRoman Loimeier, Roman Loımeıer (corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume35
Issue4
Pages403-423
Publication date2005-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Religion in Africa (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-4200 • E-ISSN: 1570-0666
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/157006605774832180
OpenAlexW1991451344
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited14

In the last decades, African Muslim societies have experienced multiple processes of modernization, as, for instance, in the sphere of education. As a consequence, the number of African Muslims literate in African languages has grown tremendously and so has the number of texts, including religious texts, published in these languages. At the same time, the Qur'ān has been translated into many African languages, and these translations of the Qur'ān have triggered disputes among religious scholars on the translatability of the Qur'ān as well as the interpretative orientation of these translations. The disputes over the translation and interpretation of the Qur'ān into African languages might contribute to the emergence, in sub-Saharan Africa, of a tradition of scholarly debates that would stress contextualized interpretations of the text

African studies · Dynamics (music) · History of religions · Interpretation (philosophy) · Islam · Languages of Africa · Linguistics · Modernization theory · Political science · Sociology · African cultural and philosophical studies · African history and culture analysis · African Studies and Geopolitics · Anthropology · History · Law · Philosophy