Robert of Ketton

روبرت الكيتوني

1160 CE · 555 AH† †

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Draft card for Robert of Ketton, the English monk who first rendered the Qur'an into Latin in 1143; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

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At a glance

Roles
Translator
Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
al-Andalus & Europe
Identifiers
Wikidata
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Life in time

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Mughith al-Harbi · Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani · Abd al-Qadir al-Rahawi · Abd al-Razzaq ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani · Abd al-Salam ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani

The long-form text for this entry has not been written yet. The facts and connections below come from the museum's data.

Sources

  • al-Alam — al-Zirikli
  • Orientalism and the Intellectual Background of the Civilisational Conflict — Mahmud Hamdi Zaqzuq
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islam.museum contributors. “Robert of Ketton”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/robert-of-ketton/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.

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