Scholarly authors as self-translators

Tracing Hasan Hanafi’s philosophical back-and-forth translations

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ID21584049
AuthorsGarda Elsherif (0009-0009-2141-5196, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume36
Issue4
Pages551-573
Publication date2024-12-31
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTarget International Journal of Translation Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0924-1884 • E-ISSN: 1569-9986
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/target.00025.els
OpenAlexW4406800957
LanguageEN
References cited24

This paper examines traces of (self-)translation in the work of the Egyptian philosopher Hasan Hanafi (1935–2021), whose academic career reflects the increasing globality of the academic field. The paper analyses Hanafi’s academic migration to France to complete his doctorate, his self-translational efforts to adapt to the French academic tradition, and the influence of his (physical and linguistic) migration on his later philosophical texts in Arabic. Hanafi was convinced that the ‘archaic’ Arabic language alienated Muslims from their own heritage, and in his later philosophical texts he thus sought to renew the Arabic language and to re-express fundamental concepts of the classical Islamic teachings. The concepts he aimed to re-express were already translated into French in his doctoral thesis. This article addresses these terminological translations into French and back into Arabic, and discusses the conceptual transformations that occurred on the way, inspired by Hanafi’s reading of Husserl and the German Idealists

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