Medieval anti-Islamic scholarship often went unread for centuries

Evidence

Robert of Ketton’s translation only achieved a wider readership when it was printed in Zurich in 1543, some four hundred years after its original draft. — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing, 61

Categorization

• CANDY: A wonderful trivia datum: the first Latin Qur’an sat essentially unread on a shelf for four centuries until the printing press dug it back up.

Related

• The Qur’an was first rendered into Latin in 1143 by an Englishman (similarity 0.81)
• Medieval Europeans could not distinguish the Qur’an from other Islamic books. (similarity 0.80)
• Peter’s anti-Islamic polemic reached few medieval readers though his Koran translation circulated widely. (similarity 0.79)
• Anti-Islamic polemic froze into its framework by the thirteenth century (similarity 0.79)
• The 1143 Latin Koran translation ended rather than began serious Islamic study (similarity 0.78)