Waiting for Mteferrika : Glimpses on Ottoman Print Culture (Ottoman and Turkish Studies)

Sabev, Orlin

Academic Studies Press（2018/05発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 168 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781618116185
• DDC分類 070.509561

Full 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's western-formed mindset the book detects the influence of his printing enterprise upon the transition from scribal tradition to print culture.

Contents

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: 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