Renan’s weak Arabic forced reliance on inaccurate Latin translations
Evidence
The most striking feature of the published version is that, almost without exception, Renan preferred inaccurate translations of Ibn Rushd into Latin to using original Arabic texts. The suspicion must be that Renan’s Arabic was not up to it. — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing, 295
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Classical translations routinely distort meaning through culturally specific terms — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 1600