Waiting for Müteferrika : : Glimpses on Ottoman Print Culture / / Orlin Sabev.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Sabev, Orlin,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Ottoman and Turkish Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (168 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781618116192; 9783110688184
• DOI: 10.1515/9781618116192?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Orlin Sabev.

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.