Medieval Qur’an translators adapted scripture to fit their audience’s knowledge

Evidence

Mark of Toledo in the same passage is much closer to the original, but his ‘what was given to Moses and Jesus’ must obviously have been much less informative to the ignorant reader than Ketton’s ‘laws of Moses and of Christ’. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 125

Categorization

• XREF: Relates to the vault’s work on how Islam is constituted as a knowable/translatable object for Christian Europe — the translation-choice framing parallels arguments about how Western scholars domesticate Islam into familiar categories.