Orientalism in Eastern Europe: the Quran Adventure of the Philomaths
Journal: Roczniki Humanistyczne
Year: 2025

The Quran of the Philomaths is a fascinating adventure led by brilliant patriotic students, mainly Polish. They spent several years in Lithuania in the early 19th century, writing the first Polish translation of the Koran using the Latin alphabet. Numerous articles were devoted to this Quran, as well as several books on the Tatars of Northern Europe. However, those papers emphasize the political patriotic goals behind that translation. This long article, based on my doctoral thesis at the Sorbon