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Ketton, where Robert was either born or perhaps first took holy orders is a small village in Rutland, a few miles outside Peterborough . Believed to have been educated at the Cathedral School of Paris , in 1134 he travelled to France , the Byzantine Empire , and the Crusader State s in Palestine with Istrian-born fellow scholar Herman Of Carinthia (also known as Herman Dalmatin). He became the Archdeacon of Pamplona and in 1143 he was commissioned by Peter The Venerable , Abbot of Cluny , to translate the Qur'an into Latin . Entitled '' Lex Mahumet Pseudoprophete '', it was the first translation of the book into a European language and remained the standard well into the sixteenth century. |
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