Translating Islam: The Qur’an between Arabicity and Euro-American Centrism
In our second “BETWEEN TWO ARABIC TRANSLATORS” conversation, Yasmeen Hanoosh and Mohammad Salama discuss “how languages—and translations—shape the way we understand the Qur’an, Islam, and the broader cultural world they inhabit,” how translations can mean an ” epistemically violent displacement of the Qur’an from its own terms of meaning,” and what a real decolonization of Euro-American Qur’anic Studies would look like.