A Study of the Efficiency of Berman's Model in the Assessment of The Qur'an Translation; A Case study of Clarification Tendencies

The translation of the Qur'an as the most sensitive text needs an accurate assessment. Translation theorists have presented different models for evaluating translation, but there has not been a scientific model for evaluating translation from Arabic to Persian, and in particular, translating the Holy Qur'an so far. To have such a model, it seems necessary first to examine the efficacy of translation assessment models in evaluating the Qur'an translation. For this purpose, present paper studies the efficacy of the Berman model and examines the efficiency of clarification tendency in the assessment of Rezaee ST-oriented translation as a case study. This study shows that in some cases, due to lack of femininity and dual forms in the Persian language, Arabic terms and derivations which have no equivalent in Persian and homonyms in Arabic vocabulary, clarification in the translation of the Qur'an is compulsory and inevitable. In other cases, however, clarification is optional and the translation approach determines the degree of its necessity. Clarification avoidance strategies include maintenance of omissions and ambiguities of demonstrative pronouns and nouns, Euphemism and metaphorical preservation; suffice to slightest change and avoidance of exegetical explanations and specifying instances.