Responding to Criticism of Hussein Ostād-Valī's Persian Translation of

The present article was written in response to the balanced review of my translation by Mr Muhammad Ali Kūshā, which was published in the previous issue of Tarjumān-e Wahy (no. 26).Mr Kūshā’s original article pointed out and exemplified some of the strengths of the Persian rendition. While admitting that he could not find any significant errors, nevertheless the reviewer went on to detail 46 cases of what might be considered minor glitches, responding to which is the focus of this article.We begin by making the point that review articles should concern themselves with emphasizing the more obvious and unequivocal mistakes and not highlighting the perceived minor breaches of etiquette which might be open to question and counter-argument. We then go on to respond point-by point to the individual criticisms made against the translation. In the few cases where this author acknowledges minor inconsistencies, the criticism has been welcomed without any reservation.Our final conclusion is that not only the cases made prominent in the review article do not amount to serious errors, but hardly constitute valid technical glitches as well.