Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on the Front Cover Image -- Note on Transliteration -- List of Tables and Figures -- Introduction: In Search of Lost Time? -- Chapter 1. The Strange Arts: Printing and Other "Oddities" -- Chapter 2. Out of the Ordinary: İbrahim Müteferrika's Mind-set -- Chapter 3. Deus ex Machina: The Müteferrika Press -- Chapter 4. They Hadn't Read My Prints: Success or Failure? -- Chapter 5. Virgin or Poison: The Making of Ottoman Print -- Culture Conclusion: Waiting for Godot? -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
Sabev investigates the first Ottoman/Muslim printer Ibrahim Muteferrika and his printing activity in the first half of the 18th century. By focusing on Muteferrika's western-formed mind-set, the book analyzes the influence of his printing enterprise on the transition from scribal tradition to print culture in the Ottoman Turkish/Muslim milieu
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
In English
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