Robert of Ketton (lived 12th century AD)

English scholar from Rutland who is though to have lived around 1140. He organized a group of translators to render the Koran into Latin, the first such undertaking in Christian Europe.

Robert of Ketton was a student of geography and astronomy, and was searching for manuscripts in northern Spain when he was engaged by the Abbot of Cluny, Peter the Venerable, to translate the Koran. Although the resulting work was not an example of dispassionate scholarship, it served as a basis for later, more faithful translations.