Waiting for Müteferrika
Subtitle: Glimpses on Ottoman Print Culture
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Published: Apr 23, 2018
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9781618116185
Description: "This book is a study of the first Ottoman/Muslim printer Ibrahim Müteferrika and his printing activity in the first half of the eighteenth century. By reviewing the existing views in narratives dating from the fifteenth through the nineteenth century and modern scholarly works, most of them quite critically discussing the relatively late introduction of Ottoman Turkish/Muslim printing, the book argues that the delay was mainly due to the lack of an appropriate printer who would be capable and eager enough to set a printing house and whom the Ottoman authority could trust. By focusing on Müteferrika{u2019}s western-formed mindset the book detects the influence of his printing enterprise upon the transition from scribal tradition to print culture."--Back cover.
Notes: Source title: Waiting for Müteferrika: Glimpses on Ottoman Print Culture (Ottoman and Turkish Studies)