TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sabev,Orlin
TI  - Waiting for Müteferrika: Glimpses on Ottoman Print Culture 
T2  - Ottoman and Turkish Studies
SN  - 9781618116185
AV  - Z232.I14 S88 2018
U1  - 070.509561 
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Boston, MA : 
PB  - Academic Studies Press, 
KW  - Printing
KW  - Turkey
KW  - History
KW  - Publishers and publishing
KW  - HISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781618116192?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781618116192
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781618116192/original
ER  -