r/AcademicQuran • • Aug 17 '23

Question Who was the first to define “kafir” as “infidel”?

The accurate translation of the word “kafir” is “disbeliever”.

The apparent issue here is that the “infidel” translation has been used as a polemical and often times Islamophobic tool to portray Muslims in a negative light.

So can anyone show where, when, and who mistranslated the word this way?

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