Name: 【TED】奈夫-穆塔瓦：受伊斯蘭教啟發的超級英雄（Naif Al-Mutawa: Superheroes inspired by Islam）。 (【TED】Naif Al-Mutawa: Superheroes inspired by Islam (Naif Al-Mutawa: Superheroes inspired by Islam))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T07:26:34.000Z
Duration: 21 min 32 s

譯者: Valter Wei 審譯者: chufung dou

未來進行式

the Justice League of America will be teaming up with The 99.

美國正義聯盟將與 "The 99" 聯手作戰。

Superman, Wonder Woman and their colleagues

will be teaming up with icons Jabbar, Noora,

超人、神奇女俠和他們的夥伴，

將與伊斯蘭世界的超級英雄，賈巴爾 (Jabbar)、諾拉 (Noora)、

It's a story of intercultural intersections,

加米 (Jami) 以及他們的夥伴（The 99 中的主角群）成為盟友。

這部漫畫故事融合不同的文化。

than those that grew out of fighting fascism

in their respective histories and geographies?

更勝他們在各自的時代和地域中，

As fascism took over Europe in the 1930s,

an unlikely reaction came out of North America.

1930 年代，法西斯主義席捲歐洲，

而北美卻出現意想不到的情況。

and swastikas were created out of crucifixes,

Batman and Superman were created by Jewish young men

以十字架為原型創造出的的納粹十字章，

與此同時，一群美國和加拿大的年輕猶太人

就像聖經中的先知一樣，所有超級英雄們

loses his parents at the age of six in Gotham City.

他在六歲時，雙親在高譚市同時被刺殺。

And all of them, just like the prophets who get their message

他們如同先知一般，從天使加百列

Peter Parker is in a library in Manhattan

Peter Parker 是在曼哈頓的圖書館中

and gives him his message through a bite.

被一隻從天花板降下的蜘蛛叮咬，

and he sees it as an omen to become Batman.

發現一隻碩大的蝙蝠飛過他頂上，

認定是個徵兆，要他以「蝙蝠俠」的形象行俠仗義。

而超人不僅是從天堂，或說氪星

but he's sent in a pod, much like Moses was on the Nile.

他還是被放在太空艙裡，很像被放進紙莎草箱子，擱在尼羅河邊的摩西。

And you hear the voice of his father, Jor-El,

saying to Earth, "I have sent to you my only son."

對地球說「我將我的獨子獻給您了。」

and the thinking behind that was to create

這些情節很明顯都是源自聖經，

有正義感，令世人為之動容的情節

that other people were pulling mean messages out of

because then the person that's using religion for the wrong purpose

而不會讓人戴著有色眼鏡來批評。

just becomes a bad man with a bad message.

因為如果有人將宗教用作惡意目的，

那麼他就是讓宗教蒙塵的惡人。

只有時刻銘記事物的積極一面，

This is the kind of thinking that went into

The 99 references the 99 attributes of Allah in the Koran,

things like generosity and mercy and foresight and wisdom

The 99 來源自真主阿拉的 99 個尊名，

and dozens of others that no two people in the world would disagree about.

代表慷慨、慈悲、遠見及智慧，

和一些為世人共同稱道的美德，

even if you're an atheist, you don't raise your kid telling him, you know,

也就是說，就算你是無神論者，你也不會教孩子

which history tells us the Mongols invaded Baghdad and destroyed it.

All the books from Bait al-Hikma library,

the most famous library in its day, were thrown in the Tigris River,

當時世界最著名的「智慧之家」圖書館，

所有的藏書都被扔進底格里斯河，

It's a story passed on generation after generation.

and in my version, the librarians find out that this is going to happen --

在我改編的版本裡，智慧之家的圖書館員預見即將發生的事件——

if you want a comic book to do well, make the librarians the hero. It always works well.

如果你想讓一部漫畫書受歡迎，就讓圖書館員成為英雄。絕對不會錯。

and they get together a special solution, a chemical solution called King's Water,

協力研製出一個特殊的化學配方，喚作「君王之水」，

would be able to save all that culture and history in the books.

藥水就能保存書籍中記載的所有文化與歷史。

The books and the solution get thrown in the Tigris River.

Some librarians escape, and over the course of days and weeks,

將書籍和藥水一起扔進底格里斯河。

they dip the stones into the Tigris and suck up that collective wisdom

一些圖書館員逃走了，而在數週的時日內，

that we all think is lost to civilization.

他們把寶石浸在底格里斯河以吸取

Those stones have been smuggled as three prayer beads

我們以為已經流失的智慧財富。

through Arabia into Andalusia in Spain, where they're safe for 200 years.

But in 1492, two important things happen.

從阿拉伯偷渡至安達魯西亞，安全保存兩百年。

但在 1492 年，兩個重大的歷史事件發生了。

The second is Columbus finally gets funded to go to India, but he gets lost.

歐洲最後一個穆斯林領土淪陷。

第二是哥倫布終於得到資助航行印度，但最後去錯了地方。

onto the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria

由哥倫布船隊的尼尼亞號、平塔號和聖瑪利亞號

Thirty-three go on the Silk Road to China, South Asia and Southeast Asia.

And 33 are spread between Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

還有三十三顆通過絲路到中國、南亞及東南亞。

And now it's 2010, and there are 99 heroes

最後三十三顆散佈在歐洲、中東及非洲各地。

到了 2010 年，出現九十九位英雄

【TED】奈夫-穆塔瓦：受伊斯蘭教啟發的超級英雄（Naif Al-Mutawa: Superheroes inspired by Islam）。 (【TED】Naif Al-Mutawa: Superheroes inspired by Islam (Naif Al-Mutawa: Superheroes inspired by Islam))

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