“Wa-law ǧaʿalnāhu Qurʾānan ʾaʿǧamiyyan” (Q. 4144) Nota sul Corano e la traducibilità: studio comparativo su sette traduzioni italiane

The paper explores the issue of the Qurʾān’s translatability through a comparative study of seven Italian translations produced between the 20th and 21st centuries. After tracing the historical development of Qurʾānic translation in Italy – from medieval Latin renderings and humanist philology to modern and contemporary versions – the study focuses on two key lexical and morphological cases: al-raḥmān al-raḥīm (Q 1:1) and the derivatives of ʿ-B-D in sūrat al-kāfirūn (Q 109:2–5). By analysing how each translator renders the semantic and phonetic interplay between root and form, the article highlights the specific challenges of rendering Arabic derivational morphology into Italian.