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The present study aims at examining the Retranslation Hypothesis in the context of sacred texts by concentrating on their culture-specific terms (CSTs). The Holy Qur’an and its 9 English translations by Sale, Muhammad-Ali, Pickthall, Arberry, Irving, Nikayin, Starkovsky, Edip Yuksel et al, and the Monotheist Group were studied. As the initial step, Qur’anic CSTs and their equivalents were specified and the procedures being opted for in rendering them were identified based on Davies’s (2003) model. Then, the translators were grouped into three categories based on the time their translations had been presented. Finally, it was examined ‘whether the passage of time affected the kind of procedures adopted by translators’ and ‘whether the Re-translation Hypothesis (RH) is confirmed or disproved in the context of sacred texts’. According to the findings, earlier translators were more inclined to provide clarifying notes and explanations for their target text (TT) readers than the recent ones. Findings also revealed the 20th and 21st-century translators’ stronger inclination towards selecting general-neutral equivalents which may imply that later translators have strived more to make the source text simpler and more comprehensible for the modern TT audience. Finally, it was realized that, as far as The Holy Qur’an is concerned, the RH is disproved.

Although cynicism is generally considered anti-religious, in fact, it is inseparable from the true faith of religion. There are two types of cynicism: the first one is being faithful and the second one is being atheistic. An epistemological and psychological study of faith have viewed the essential element of faith. True religious faith is the wisdom of restlessness. Cynicism is what energizes the faith. In this article with library method it is shown that faith expands with faith. Cynicism is neither offensive nor erroneous nor a guilt; rather it is a component of religious faith.

Despite the huge bulk of research conducted on translation quality assessment, the literature on the translation of the Holy Quran is in its infancy. Since jurists, commentators, and Quranic interpreters analyze individual Quranic verses as a whole discourse and in relation to other verses and Surahs, it is deemed necessary for translators to follow the same procedure and consider the wholeness of the text in their translation of individual verses. Coherence is among linguistic properties that contribute to the wholeness of the Quran as a unique discourse. A literature review shows that coherence has a direct effect on the quality of translations. Thus, this research intended to investigate the effect of coherence on the translation quality of some famous translations of the Holy Quran from an instructional viewpoint. To this aim, a mixed-methods study was employed in which the effect of coherence on reading comprehension of 12 Ph.D. candidates enrolled in an ESP course was studied. In the qualitative phase, utilizing linguistic markers, samples of coherent translations were extracted from the 30th chapter of the Quran. Then, two reading comprehension tests were developed from the coherent samples and the corpus without coherent markers. In the next step, these tests were administered to participants. The data were analyzed through a t-test. Findings showed that coherent translations enjoy post-posed/pre-posed concessive, sense continuity, backgrounding, explicitation, and addition as coherence markers. Also, quantitative findings showed a significant difference between the tests taken by the participants at two different times (t (11) = 4.204 and p = 0.001) proving the meaningful effect of coherence on translation comprehension.