A Critical Analysis of Context Role in Literal, Faithful, Semantic and Explanatory Translations

One of the crucial issues to help translators understand the Quran is to take the context into consideration in the process of translation. And there is no doubt that, context is of great importance in understanding the speaker's meaning. Accordingly, paying attention to the context in translating the Holy Quran is also necessary since any translation requires the true understanding of the holy verses. Meanwhile, it is very important to specify that which types of translations take the context into consideration. This study reviewed the main types of existing translations of the Quran including literal, faithful, semantic and explanatory translations and reached to this conclusion that among the translations mentioned, explanatory translation is more consistent with the context.