This first volume of Collected Works of the ERC Project TYPARABIC focuses on the history of printing during the 18th century in the Ottoman Empire and the Romanian Principalities among diverse linguistic and confessional communities. Although “most roads lead to Istanbul,” the many pathways of early modern Ottoman printing also connected authors,…[Read more]

This chapter analyses Ottoman attitudes towards printing and argues that at the beginning of the 18th century there was still considerable mistrusts towards this novel technology, coming especially from religious circles.