Harmonic translations of rubaiyat of Pahlavan Mahmood

Translating classical lyrical texts of the Muslim East into Western languages is a very complex task. The translators usually point out two main obstacles in this process. The first hurdle is the problem of poetic meter. Originally formed in Arabic poetry, aruz later became the main system of classical poetry in Persian and ancient Turkic. Its main feature is that short, long and very long syllables are grouped according to a certain order. Later all the genres of classic Muslim oriental poetry started being composed in this meter. The second is the affiliation of Oriental and western lyric genre requirements to different poles. Therefore, evaluating a translation in terms of adequacy or equivalence does not allow for an objective assessment. The new category that we are introducing in terms of the assessment of the translations of a poetic text would be “harmonic translation”.