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The current volume represents a revival of Arabic translation and terminology studies. These disciplines have been dominated by Western scholarship in recent decades, but in truth their historical tradition as a whole owes a great debt to Arabic scholarship. The first systematic translation activity ever organized was under the Abbasids in Baghdad in the 9th Century CE, and Arabic domination continued for several centuries before the tide turned. In this collection, the importance of the ongoing translation and terminology movement in the Arab world is revealed through the works of some of the most distinguished scholars, who investigate a wide range of relevant topics from the making of the first ever Arabic monolingual dictionary to modern-day localization into Arabic. Arabic terminology standardization as well as legal, medical, Sufi and Quranic terms - issues with both cultural and economic ramifications for the Arab world - are thoroughly examined, completing the solid framework of this rich tradition that still has a lot to offer.

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HoT 2 will soon become an essential resource in any Arabic translator or terminologist's library clarifying, explaining and exemplifying the type of terminological problems and solutions that are experienced in the Arab world, an essential toolkit for insights and guidelines on terminological neologization, documentation, and standardization issues. Since translation and terminological studies have a long-standing tradition in Arabic, this volume comes as an unprecedented timely overview of historical highlights as well as the ongoing modern translation and terminology movement addressing terminological and translation challenges in the Arab world. -- Hassane Darir, University Cadi Ayyad, Marrakech, to be published in Tarjamiyat Bait Al-Hikma

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