Arabic Printing for the Christians in Ottoman Lands: The East-European Connection

Ioana Feodorov

book: Arabic Printing for the Christians in Ottoman Lands

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2023

Arabic Printing for the Christians in Ottoman Lands

The East-European Connection

Ioana Feodorov
Funded by: European Research Council

Volume 1 in the series Early Arabic Printing in the East

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110786996

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Arabic printing began in Eastern Europe and the Ottoman Levant through the association of the scholar and printer Antim the Iberian, later a metropolitan of Wallachia, and Athanasios III Dabbās, twice patriarch of Antioch, when the latter, as metropolitan of Aleppo, was sojourning in Bucharest. This partnership resulted in the first Greek and Arabic editions of the Book of the Divine Liturgies (Snagov, 1701) and the Horologion (Bucharest, 1702). With the tools and expertise that he acquired in Wallachia, Dabbās established in Aleppo in 1705 the first Arabic-type press in the Ottoman Empire. After the Church of Antioch divided into separate Greek Orthodox and Greek Catholic Patriarchates in 1724, a new press was opened for Arabic-speaking Greek Catholics by ʻAbdallāh Zāḫir in Ḫinšāra (Ḍūr al-Šuwayr), Lebanon. Likewise, in 1752-1753, a press active at the Church of Saint George in Beirut printed Orthodox books that preserved elements of the Aleppo editions and were reprinted for decades. This book tells the story of the first Arabic-type presses in the Ottoman Empire which provided church books to the Arabic-speaking Christians, irrespective of their confession, through the efforts of ecclesiastical leaders such as the patriarchs Silvester of Antioch and Sofronios II of Constantinople and financial support from East European rulers like prince Constantin Brâncoveanu and hetman Ivan Mazepa.

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Ioana Feodorov, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	XXIII
1 Preliminaries Open Access Download PDF	1
2 Arabic Book-Printing in the East Before 1700 Open Access Download PDF	75
3 In the Wake of Parting: Christian Arabic Printing to Suit All Needs Open Access Download PDF	117
4 Christian Arabic Book‑Printing after the 1724 Division: A Fruitful Antagonism Open Access Download PDF	187
5 The Second Transfer of Printing Expertise to Greater Syria Open Access Download PDF	235
6 Christian Arabic Books Printed between 1701 and 1753, Snagov to Beirut Open Access Download PDF	255
7 Conclusions. Arabic Presses of the East, the Fruit of Mixed Feelings Open Access Download PDF	309
8 Addenda Open Access Download PDF	319
Abbreviations Open Access Download PDF	325
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	327
List of Maps and Figures Open Access Download PDF	361
Maps Open Access Download PDF	365
Figures Open Access Download PDF	367
Index of Names and Places Open Access Download PDF	429

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of History, Arabic Studies, Cultural Studies
Pages
- Front matter: 24
- Main content: 441
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 64
Keywords: Arabic printing; Arabic-speaking Christians; 18th century; Ottoman Empire

eBook

Published: October 4, 2023
ISBN: 9783110786996

Hardcover

Published: October 4, 2023
ISBN: 9783110786842