مكتبة كتيبة محمّد بن نصير Muhammad bin Nusayr's Library Bibliothèque de Muhammad bin Nusayr کتابخانه کتیبه محمد بن نصیر

مَكْتَبَةُ كَتِيبَةِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ نُصَيْرٍ

The Compendium of Festivals - Maymun Ibn Qasim Al-Tabarani

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Therefore, this translational work is based on a balanced approach, seeking to achieve the greatest possible fidelity to the original text while considering the structural and semantic differences between the two languages. In some instances, this necessitated the selection of approximate linguistic equivalents or the rephrasing of certain structures to preserve the general meaning, without claiming to transfer all its semantic layers perfectly. The translator acknowledges that some differences in meaning or nuance are a natural result of human endeavor in dealing with texts of such high epistemological and spiritual weight.

It should also be noted that this translation does not aim to provide a final interpretative reading of the texts, nor to resolve the hermeneutical issues associated with them. Rather, it seeks to make them available to the reader who is not a specialist in the original language, enabling them to view these texts within a disciplined scientific framework. Returning to the original text and its commentaries remains necessary for anyone wishing to delve deeper into its contents and explore its doctrinal and esoteric dimensions more precisely.

During the translation process, I faced numerous challenges, perhaps the most prominent being that many vocabularies and expressions in the original text carry special semantic and spiritual charges formed over a long history of religious and philosophical usage, such that no single word in the target language suffices to cover all their dimensions. Therefore, it was sometimes necessary to choose the closest possible meanings or use explanatory structures, while acknowledging that some semantic depth may not be transferred completely as it exists in the primary language.

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