Orlin Sabev

Waiting for Müteferrika

Glimpses on Ottoman Print Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 168mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781618116185
• ISBN-10: 1618116185
• Artikelnr.: 50695772

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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 Müteferrikäs 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