Makarios ibn al-Zaʻīm’s Book of the Wheel

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Preface. 18th-Century Arabic Printing for the Arab Christians: Most Roads Lead to Istanbul VII
4. Editors’ Note XIX
5. Part 1. Printing in Istanbul, for Istanbul
6. İbrahim Müteferrika and the Ottoman Intellectual Culture in the Early 18th Century: a Transcultural Perspective 1
7. The Müteferrika Press: Obstacles, Circumvention, and Repercussion According to Contemporary German Sources (1727–1741) 21
8. Ottoman Endorsements of Printing in 18th‑Century Istanbul 49
9. Hebrew Printing in Early Modern Istanbul: Between Mobility and Stability 69
10. ‘Libertà et licenza... di stampare mille heræsie et schismi:’ The Propaganda Fide and the Greek Printing Press at Constantinople (1627–1628) 89
11. Part 2. Beyond Istanbul: The Printed-Book Culture in Central and South-Eastern Europe
12. The Beginning of Printing and Print Culture in the Romanian Principalities 123
13. La naissance du portrait dans l’espace orthodoxe : Représenter l’auteur dans les livres grecs du début du XVIIIe siècle 145
14. Arabic Books Printed in Wallachia and Moldavia and their Phanariot Readers 177
15. The Collection, Perception, and Study of Arabic Incunabula from the Near East in Europe (17th – early 19th Centuries) 191
16. Part 3. Arabic Liturgical Texts in Printed Form
17. Analyse comparative du texte gréco-arabe du Hiératikon imprimé à Snagov en 1701 211
18. A Preliminary Comparison of the Horologion in Sinai Arabic 232 (13th c.) with the 1702 Edition of Athanasios Dabbās and the Earlier Version of Meletios Karma 243
19. The Prefaces of the Christian Arabic Books Printed in Wallachia and Syria in the Early 18th Century 267
20. Patriarch Athanasios III Dabbās’ Gospel. Origin and Characteristics 291
21. Makarios ibn al-Zaʻīm’s Book of the Wheel 309
22. Contributors 335