The first complete Latin Koran translation was commissioned by a French abbot in 1142.

Evidence

In 1142–43 Peter traveled to Spain and assembled a team of translators. He had Robert Ketton produce a full, Latin version of the Koran, which was subsequently given extensive marginal annotations; it is the first translation of the Koran into Latin, indeed probably the first complete translation into any language. Other translators produced Latin versions of other Muslim texts and of the Risâlat al-Kindî. — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 835

Categorization

• XREF: Grounds the genealogy of ‘translatio’ and how Western knowledge-production of Islam began with a polemical apparatus, tying to Tolan’s overall argument that situates these texts as a chapter in the Islam-West opposition the vault already tracks.