Translating the Qur'ân in Sub-Saharan Africa: Dynamics and disputes

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Title:	Translating the Qur'ân in Sub-Saharan Africa: Dynamics and disputes
Author:	Loimeier, Roman
Year:	2005
Periodical:	Journal of Religion in Africa
Volume:	35
Issue:	4
Pages:	403-423
Language:	English
Geographic terms:	Africa Subsaharan Africa
Subjects:	Koran translation Religion and Witchcraft Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Quran
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/27594351.pdf
Abstract:	In the last decades, African Muslim societies have experienced multiple processes of modernization, as, for instance, in the sphere of education. As a consequence, the number of African Muslims literate in African languages has grown tremendously and so has the number of texts, including religious texts, published in these languages. At the same time, the Koran has been translated into many African languages, and these translations of the Koran have triggered disputes among religious scholars on the translatability of the Koran as well as the interpretative orientation of these translations. The disputes over the translation and interpretation of the Koran into African languages might contribute to the emergence, in sub-Saharan Africa, of a tradition of scholarly debates that would stress contextualized interpretations of the text. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]