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- André du Ryer, L’Alcoran de Mahomet (Amsterdam, 1734)
In 1647 André du Ryer, consul of France in Egypt, published a French translation of the Quran de Koran. It was the first ever in a modern European language. Only two years later the first ‘pirated’ edition appeared in Amsterdam. More would follow, including a widely published retranslation into Dutch. Du Ryer himself described the Quran as an invention of the ‘false prophet Mahomet’, and many Dutch editions show an image of Muhammad as a dishevelled psychic. However, in the Age of Enlightenment the public adopted a less neurotic approach to Islam.
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