TY - BOOK AU - Ahmed Mahmoud Ahmed Mahmoud Abuhassoub AU - Mohammed Abdelwahab Shehata , AU - Nahwat Amin Elarousy , AU - Sameh Salah Mohammed Ali , TI - Evaluating the rendering of definiteness and indefiniteness in Al-Baqara and Al-A,raf into English : : A syntactic and semantic study / PY - 2015/// CY - Cairo : PB - Ahmed Mahmoud Ahmed Mahmoud Abuhassoub , KW - Indefinite functions KW - Qur'anic studies KW - Translating definites N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Helwan University - Faculty of Arts - Department of English N2 - The main objectives of this study are identifying the possible purposes and functions of in definite nouns in Al-Baqara and Al-A,raf, analyzing how these purposes and functions are rendered into English in some English translations of the Glorious Qur'an and exploring the reasons for variation, if any, in rendering the Arabic in /definiteness into English. Three approaches are followed in analyzing the data of this study ER -