In this case, ideology refers to the belief in right and wrong, and it is related to the aspects of translation, culture and ethnicity. The purpose of this study is to examine the distinctive ideology behind the translation of an Islamic moral ethnic book, i.e. The results can be useful for developing an investigative model of ideology and cultural aspects based on the study of Islamic Sufism texts. The findings, based on Spradley’s change theory and componential analysis, showed that there is a close relationship between the translation ideology, the translation method and the translation technique in this book.
Thus, this study focuses on three research questions: 1) What are the forms of the themes and rhemes in Al-Hikam’s Arabic-English aphorisms 2) How are the translation techniques applied in such aphorisms and 3) What is the relationship between the method and ideology behind the translation of such aphorisms? The data was collected using observations and focus group discussions with a professional translator. However, previous studies on the information structure in Islamic religious texts are limited and they do not investigate the ideological aspects of the translation.
In this regard, one of the subjects of focus is themes (old information) and rhemes (new information). Such ideology can be examined through a textual equivalence analysis, which focuses on the cultural form and information structure. This research investigated the ideology behind the translation of an Islamic moral ethic book, i.e.
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