Translating the Qur'an in the Digital Age: Adapting Qur'an Translation for Digital-Technology Users | ||
| مجلة کلية الآداب جامعة الفيوم | ||
| Volume 17, Issue 2, July 2025, Pages 1474-1513 PDF (1.11 M) | ||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jfafu.2025.431948.2328 | ||
| Author | ||
| منار عبد العاطي* | ||
| كلية البنات جامعة الأزهر بالعاشر من رمضان | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This paper tackles the problem of translating the Qur'an in the digital age. Digital media has changed reading habits of users who spend most of their time scrolling screens to process vast amounts of content as fast as possible. The shift to screens made users prefer short digital contents to lengthy printed texts. They read faster and process information differently. Accordingly, the new reading habits of digital technology users are expected to prevent them from reading the Qur'an in general and Qur'an translations in particular. If Arabic-speaking Muslim users have opportunities to read the original Qur'an at homes, mosques and schools, non-Arabic-speaking Muslims do not have the same opportunities. They can communicate with the Qur'an just through the translations that are already difficult to understand. The new generations in the digital age with their new reading habits can hardly force themselves to read lengthy written translations of the Qur'an with all their complexities. Digital media is expected to widen the gap between the new generations and the Qur'an. Therefore, a digital translation of the Qur'an is badly needed to deliver the message of the Qur'an for digital technology users in a design that matches their new reading habits. The researcher first explains how digital technology changed the concepts of translation; language; and religion, and then concludes how those changes can be applied to produce digital translations of the holy Qur'an. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| (1) Digital translation; (2) Digital translation of the holy Qur'؛ an; (3) Digital language; (4) Digital reading habits | ||
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