Waiting for Müteferrika

As the first English language monograph dedicated to early Ottoman printing, Orlin Sabev's Waiting for Muteferrika: Glimpses of Ottoman Print Culture offers an informative and thoroughly researched assessment of how print technology and culture permeated the Ottoman book market and society in the eighteenth century. One of the book's great strengths is the broad and creative expanse of these sources, which present an assortment of insights into Ottoman attitudes toward printing and printed books. Waiting for Muteferrika: Glimpses of Ottoman Print Culture stands tall as the first English language scholarly work devoted solely to the Muteferrika press. It is a book that Ottoman historians and Turkologists alike have been waiting for, and it will also prove valuable for scholars of early print, incunabula, modernization, Islamic studies, and Middle East studies. Yasemin Gencer, Indiana University, Journal of Near Eastern Studies

Autorentext
Orlin Sabev is Associate Professor at the Institute of Balkan Studies with Centre for Thracology of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Sofia). He has published six books and over a hundred articles in Bulgarian, Turkish, and English on various topics in the field of Ottoman education, print culture, social history and sexuality, in particular: on the history of Ottoman/Muslim education (2001), on the first Ottoman Turkish/Muslim printing press in Constantinople in 1726-1746 (2004 and 2006), on the history of Robert College, founded in Constantinople in 1863 by American missionaries (2014 and 2015), and on the history of Ottoman libraries (2017).

Klappentext
Sabev investigates the first Ottoman/Muslim printer Ibrahim Müteferrika and his printing activity in the first half of the 18th century. By focusing on Müteferrikäs 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.

Inhalt
Acknowledgments Note on the Front Cover Image Note on Transliteration List of Tables List of Figures Introduction: In Search of Lost Time? Chapter 1. The Strange Arts: Printing and Other Oddities Chapter 2. Out of the Ordinary: brahim 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

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