Translation Criticism: The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, the 3rd Volume

In this paper, after considering the status of the Rutledge History of Philosophy among the available books on the history of philosophy in Persian, the form and content of the Persian translation of the 3rd volume of this book by Hassan Mortazavi, have been analyzed. The shortcomings of this translation include missing words, alien words, the neglect of specialized equivalent terms, the lack of uniformity in applying terms, inverted translations, inaccuracies, lots of omissions and insensibility of the accurate concepts and meanings of the philosophical terminology of the Middle Age. This translation, in general, is assessed to be inefficient, untechnical, and inadequate.