The analyses in the formel, contextuel and culturell aspects and their reflections to language education of the translated novel called "In Mekka" written by Karl May / Franz Kandolf

Translation which has an important and indispensable place in our life is a gateway to the world, a bridge that makes people and civilizations closer and establishes dialogue and communication between them, helps people to understand and recognize each other and not restricted to present but extending from past to present.My aim is to reveal how the work "In Mekka"; which was written about a one century ago in German by Franz Kandolf, in accordance with the language of the author Karl May, later translated into Turkish by Çiğdem Canan Dikmen, from the aspects of orientalism as well as various linguistic sides. So I targeted both to call attention to these kinds of works and to contribute to the translation researches and foreign language teaching modestly. In this research, besides the Koller's real (dynamic) translation criticism approach, a study was executed getting help from various translation and criticism theories as well as objective and subjective aggregations. In this context, after discussing the translation and its problems, information about the author of the source text, his work and information about the era of the work was given and the connection between the writer and his work with the orientalism was tried to be shown. After compering the source and target language texts, evaluation of the analyzed translation was completed. Moreover, some sections of the source and target texts that are considered to give authentic contribution to the teaching of foreign language were recognized and suggested. Key words: science of translation, translation, equivalence, translation criticism, orientalism.