The Koran was first translated into Latin in the 1140s
Evidence
In 1142β43 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 ο¬rst translation of the Koran into Latin, indeed probably the ο¬rst complete translation into any language. β John V. Tolan, Saracens, 835
Categorization
- CANDY: A nice concrete date-and-place fact: the Latin Koran predates Luther and all printed European translation projects by centuries.