Standardizing the Transliteration of Islamic Sciences Terms; necessity, effects and problems

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Member of faculty of Islamic sciences and culture institute

Abstract

The upcoming problems with translation of texts and finding the equivalence of Islamic vocabulary and terms require the use of vocabulary transliteration. The use of transliteration and vocabulary description will translate the Islamic concepts more precisely, increase the user's familiarity with Islamic terms, and facilitate the promotion of Islamic teachings throughout the world. However, Lack of discipline in transliteration will lead to chaos in the quality of data entry in the database as well as user's confusion, spending a lot of time and failure to access all the information at the time of data retrieval.
The aim of this study is to prove the necessity of transliteration management through standardization and the system of references in synonyms. The paper has been conducted by descriptive-analytical method through referring to available documents in written or digital form. The findings of the study are the necessity of policymaking, standardizing the transliterated terms along with conceptual explanation of transliterated vocabularies, and the need for using the system of references in order to refer to standardized transliterated terms. Success in this work requires the cooperation and participation of research centers, educational centers, libraries, publishing centers, and online databases, especially online helps, and search engines at national and international levels.

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  • Receive Date: 05 August 2019
  • Accept Date: 05 August 2019

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