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Record W2136139059 · doi:10.5539/ells.v3n3p21

Arberry's Qur'anic Translation Pitfalls: Analysis, Implications

2013· article· en· W2136139059 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Mohammad Al-Kuran

Bibliographic record

VenueEnglish Language and Literature Studies · 2013
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicHistorical and Linguistic Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTerminologyLinguisticsRendering (computer graphics)Interpretation (philosophy)GrammarComputer scienceArabicNatural language processingPhilosophyArtificial intelligence

Abstract

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Though Arberry's translation of the Qur'an into English is widely recognized as the best translation, it contains several inaccuracies that have minimized the significance of his work. Apparently, Arberry has not made such pitfalls deliberately to distort the intended message of the Qur'anic verses on a sectarian basis. His failures seem to derive from his lack of familiarity with the subtle meanings of some Qur'anic terminology and some cases of grammar including morphology and derivation, though he once served as professor of Arabic at Cambridge University. This paper intends therefore to highlight some of his failures in rendering the Qur'anic text into English in those respects and discuss their implications for the interpretation of the Qur'an.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.016
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.042
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.017
Threshold uncertainty score0.085

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0160.042
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0050.010
Science and technology studies0.0100.026
Scholarly communication0.0090.011
Open science0.0020.003
Research integrity0.0030.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.019
GPT teacher head0.320
Teacher spread0.301 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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