Ibrahim Muteferrika was a Hungarian-born Ottoman diplomat, publisher, economist, historian, Islamic theologian, sociologist, and the first Muslim to run a printing press with movable Arabic type.
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Sultan Ahmed III receives French ambassador Vicomte d'Andrezel at Topkapı Palace.
This map of the Indian Ocean and the China Sea was engraved in 1728 by the Hungarian-born Ottoman polymath and publisher Ibrahim Muteferrika; it is one of a series that illustrated Katip Çelebi’s Cihannuma (Universal Geography), the first printed book of maps and drawings to appear in the Muslim world.Academics from Turkey 6
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Country
TurkeyCategory
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1674 to 1745 · aged 71
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