• Dr. Fatima Elnaeem Mohamed

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• Suaad Talaat Al-Ajamy

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Human languages are complex and unequal in their social status, translation accordingly is a complicated process of communicating the meaning of a text from a source-language (SL) by means of an equivalent target-language (TL) text. Others view it as the transfer of a written or spoken language into another without changing the meaning of the source language, or turning an original or source text into a text in another language. This study aims at comparing translation and retranslation of the meanings of some verses of the Holy Qur'an to find out linguistic development that occurred, in addition to the changes in translation standards adopted in different periods of time, other factors are: translation process that considers content, literary fashion, and circumstances. English translation and retranslation of the meanings of some short verses are compared for the purpose of this study; no doubt the source language is classical Arabic for both translators (Abdullah Yusuf Ali and Dr. Mustafa Khattab), the target language is English. Analysis is based on linguistic level for both translations.

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