İbrahim Müteferrika's Ottoman press
Imprenta otomana de İbrahim Müteferrika
- Date
- 1727-1729 · confidence high
- Place
- Istanbul, Turkey
- Credited to
- İbrahim Müteferrika and Said Efendi
- People
- 👤 Ibrahim Muteferrika1674–1745👤 Mehmed Said Efendi1650–1761
- Field
- Communication
What it is
The first press in Arabic characters run by Muslims under licence from the sultan, which published 17 works on language, history, geography and science. It opened up print culture in the Sunni Islamic world.
Jewish (Istanbul, 1493), Armenian and Greek presses already existed in the empire, as did Christian Arabic presses (Aleppo, 1706).
What it led to
- printing in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt (Bulaq, 1822)
- the spread of maps and modern geography in Turkish