
AbstractThis study investigates whether fidelity was achieved in the self-translation of Friday sermons by imam Mohammed Ewes. Ewes is an Egyptian Muslim imam who immigrated to the United Kingdom in 1996. When writing this paper, he had been preaching at Al-Birr Mosque in London for 25 years. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, he is one of the few Muslim imams in the Islamic world to have self-translated and compiled his religious sermons into a single book. This study adopts the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) approach to analyze the data. We extracted the data from Ewes’s book Pulpit Sermons in Arabic and English, written in Arabic and self-translated into English by Ewes himself. Specifically, we selected eight sermons randomly from the book. We analyzed the data using Ajunwa’s (2015) approach to assessing fidelity in translation. The findings show that fidelity was not achieved in the self-translation because the self-translator did not produce a faithful and accurate translation. Therefore, the self-translation of Ewes’s Friday sermons cannot be regarded as a true translation but as a rewritten translation.
Translation, Sociology and Political Science, Translation (biology), Social Sciences, Gene, Translation Studies and Practices, Language and Linguistics, H, AZ20-999, Genetics, Arabic Bible Translations, Biology, Messenger RNA, Computer science, Christian-Muslim Relations in Historical Context, FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion, Philosophy, FOS: Biological sciences, Fidelity, Telecommunications, Theology, History of scholarship and learning. The humanities, Arts and Humanities, Muslim Readings of Gospels, Art
Translation, Sociology and Political Science, Translation (biology), Social Sciences, Gene, Translation Studies and Practices, Language and Linguistics, H, AZ20-999, Genetics, Arabic Bible Translations, Biology, Messenger RNA, Computer science, Christian-Muslim Relations in Historical Context, FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion, Philosophy, FOS: Biological sciences, Fidelity, Telecommunications, Theology, History of scholarship and learning. The humanities, Arts and Humanities, Muslim Readings of Gospels, Art
| selected citations These citations are derived from selected sources. This is an alternative to the "Influence" indicator, which also reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically). | 0 | |
| popularity This indicator reflects the "current" impact/attention (the "hype") of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network. | Average | |
| influence This indicator reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically). | Average | |
| impulse This indicator reflects the initial momentum of an article directly after its publication, based on the underlying citation network. | Average |
