when cultures collide, through its major activities that emanate from the translation, they can flourish themselves. intimacy and familiarity of the islamic world with greek medical heritage which happened to be in the golden age of the abbasids in baghdad, led to the enrichment and prosperity of islamic medicine. this sort of familiarity and reproductivity grew among nestorian christians throu...

In her article "US-American Protestant Missionaries and Translation in China 1894-1911" Mingyu Lu discusses impact of and surrounding atmosphere between Protestant missionaries and Chinese intellectuals in translating Western texts. During the national crisis in 1894-1911, Protestant missionaries and Chinese intellectuals co-translated a large number of Western texts and adjusted their translat...

due to its specific characteristics, special theoretical principles are involved in translation of religious text. the texts of this genre are classified into two categories of divine and non-divine each with its own considerations in the act of translation. nahj-al-balaghah is one of the non-divine islamic texts. two of the well-known translations of it into persian are those by seyed jafar sh...

the most important and practical phase of analyzing the linguistic errors of second language learners is to find the solutions to decrease these errors. to that end, the present study examined translation strategy to decrease the number of grammatical and lexical errors of chinese language learners learning persian. twelve chinese language learners were asked to write a text in two stages. firs...

present paper is a translation of the travelogue of sefer muratowicz, the armenian-origin polish merchant and traveler who made a journey to persia in 1602. apart from translation, we would provide, in present article, some codicological information and a content review.  because one of the travelogue versions has been corrected by tadeusz juda krusiński, his footnotes are cited as well. in pre...

this study was an attempt to investigate the realization of catford’s shifts in the farsi translation of english psychology texts, a product-oriented point of view, shedding light on the areas farsi is different english. inspired by a study conducted by khorshidi (2010), the two questions raised in the study sought to detect the kinds of shifts applied in the translation of english psychology t...