Investigating the Quality of the Nahj al-Balaghah Translation Based on House's Pattern-Oriented Model (a Case Study of Allameh Jafari and Shahidi Translation of The Sermon Ashbah)

The evaluation of translation is, in fact, the quality assessment of translation based on the precise and scientific approaches of linguistics. The review of translation based on Julian House’s pattern of evaluation is one of the most important topics that has been studied by researchers. Based on this pattern, there are two types of explicit and hidden translations. In the explicit translation, translators consciously choose linguistic equivalents, while the hidden translation is based on linguistic norms of the destination text. With the aim of investigating the role of source and destination texts by using a descriptive-analytical method, the authors seek to analyze the type of overt and covert translation and study the quality of the translated texts of the sermon Ashbah. As the translation of Allameh Jafari and Shahidi cares about not only accuracy, fidelity, and the matching of every Arabic vocabulary with their Persian equivalents, but also the literary aspect of Nahj al-Balaghah and its translation into Persian, the quality of the two interpreters’ translation of the sermon Ashbah, Amiralmomenin’s phantoms, is investigated. The findings show that in terms of translation quality, translators have preserved the quality of the original text. The translation genre and the language role have been preserved by translators. According to the provision of two types of explicit and covert translations and the investigation of the explicit and hidden errors presented by House, both translators have made a clear translation of the text but in some cases, they have made changes that are more apparent in Allameh Shahidi's translation than Allameh Jafari's.