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Volume 2 Issue 12 |
December 2016 |
| Translation as a Dialogue between Cultures: Interrogating Arabimalayalam and Literary Networks in Kerala | |
| Mr. Jahfar Sadiq, Researcher, Department of Translation Studies, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, , |
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| Abstract | |
| There are different types of networks which are often interlaced and traverse the Malabar regions and Arab regions forming bonds among individuals and communities. The networks of travel, Sufi brother-hoods and trade are normally understood as the paths through which Islam got spread and prospered. Along with these, here in this paper, my attempt is to propose the literary networks that made Muslims across space and boundaries of Malabar and Arabian continent to be mutually associated in a way that resulted in emergence of Arabimalayalam, which is a unique dialect written in the Arabic script, with Malayalam grammar and vocabulary drawn from Malayalam and Arabic mainly, and Tamil, Persian, Urdu and Sanskrit occasionally. Literary networks comprised of shared texts, including stories, poems genealogies, histories, and treatises on a broad range of topics, as well as the readers, listeners, authors, patrons, translators, and scribes who created, translated, supported, and transmitted them. | |
| Keywords | |
| Arabimalayalam; Literature; Translation. | |
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