A Critical Study of Bassam Rababa'h's Arabic Translation of Persian Literature from the Age of Jami to the Present: A Morphosyntactic Analysis Based on Carmen García's Translation Assessment Model

Abstract

This study critically examines Bassam Rababa'h's Arabic translation of Persian Literature from the Age of Jami to the Present in light of Carmen García's translation assessment model, with particular emphasis on the morphosyntactic level. Translation criticism plays a vital role in evaluating the quality of translated works by identifying their strengths and weaknesses and establishing objective criteria that help translators avoid errors and improve the quality of future translations. The study adopts a descriptive-analytical approach and applies García's assessment model, which is based on the principle of equivalence between the source and target texts. The model evaluates translations according to the dual criteria of adequacy and acceptability, considering both positive and negative features across different linguistic levels.  The primary objective of the research is to analyze the translator's strategies at the morphosyntactic level and to assess the extent to which he succeeds in maintaining a balance between adequacy (accurate transfer of meaning) and acceptability (naturalness and fluency in the target language). The findings indicate that the translator effectively employed several positive strategies, including grammatical transformation, compensation, and explicitation, which contributed to producing a fluent and acceptable Arabic text. However, the analysis also revealed instances of reduced acceptability resulting from excessive literal translation, as well as cases of diminished adequacy caused by unjustified omission or semantic reduction, both of which affected the accurate transmission of certain meanings in the source text.