# George Keith

- id: george-keith
- dates: c. 1638–1716
- roles: translator

Quaker preacher who Englished the Philosophus Autodidactus in 1674, three years after the Latin appeared. The Quakers read the self-taught islander as a parable of the inner light.

## Crossings

- 1674: Hayy ibn Yaqzan into English (translator) [attested]

## Sources

- Russell, G. A. (ed.) (1994). The 'Arabick' Interest of the Natural Philosophers in Seventeenth-Century England.