A prominent medieval scholar misread the Quran he himself commissioned to translate

Evidence

These writers knew what they were talking about. Peter the Venerable, unusually, was ill-informed; he strangely insisted that the Qur’an does not mention the falsification of Scripture (or, he implies, the falsification of their revelation) by Christians and Jews; his imprecision may be the source of Fitzralph’s. The plain fact is that the text of Ketton’s Qur’an which Peter claimed to have searched in vain, made clear sense of verses which assert or imply tahrif, the corruption of Scripture. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 312

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to reader’s interest in textual reception and how authoritative translations shape doctrinal claims; also to the broader tahrif/Scripture-corruption debate highlighted in the preceding passage.