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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Feodorov, Ioana, author.

Contributor:

European Research Council, funder.

Series:

Early Arabic printing in the East ; v. 1.

Early Arabic printing in the East, 2751-2797 ; volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religious life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (466 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2023.

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Ioana Feodorov, Romanian Academy, Bukarest, Rumänien.

Summary:

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 Dabbas, 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, Dabbas 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 Abdallah Zahir in Hinsara (Dur al-Suwayr), 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 Brancoveanu and hetman Ivan Mazepa.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

1 Preliminaries

2 Arabic Book-Printing in the East Before 1700

3 In the Wake of Parting: Christian Arabic Printing to Suit All Needs

4 Christian Arabic Book‑Printing after the 1724 Division: A Fruitful Antagonism

5 The Second Transfer of Printing Expertise to Greater Syria

6 Christian Arabic Books Printed between 1701 and 1753, Snagov to Beirut

7 Conclusions. Arabic Presses of the East, the Fruit of Mixed Feelings

8 Addenda

Abbreviations

Bibliography

List of Maps and Figures

Maps

Figures

Index of Names and Places

Notes:

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ISBN:

3-11-078699-0

OCLC:

1408682807