Analysis of the Content of the Published Articles on the Subject of Translating Islamic Texts

The present paper studies 572 articles in the sphere of translating Islamic texts to determine their thematic and linguistic tendency, types of the articles, year of publication, period and type of the related magazines, and other parameters taken from the website of the Nur specialized magazines. The findings show that in the period studied, the greatest number of article were in 1385 and the least were in 1375. 60.8% of them were compiled articles and 14.2% were translated articles. The articles in Persian language with 46.3%, in English with 5.2% and in French with 3.2% were the the highest in number respectively. The number of articles on general subjects were 45 (52.6%), those on difficulties of translation were 56 (9.8%), and those on literature, history and methodology were the greatest in number among various subjects. 95.5% articles were published in specialized magazines and 4.5% in scientific-research magazines. 245 articles (42.8%) were published in monthly journals, 161 articles (28.1%) in two-quarterly journals, and 149 articles (26%) in quarterly journals. 93.7% were written by men, 2.5% by women and 3.8% by organizational writers. 93.99% of the writers worked individually and 35 (6.1%) of the articles were written by group writers