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Dont forget Ibrahim Muteferrika, another (hungarian) ottoman cartograph. Also widely credited with inventing the arabic wordpress. Curiously, he was a christia
by aliswe 6y ago
Dont forget Ibrahim Muteferrika, another (hungarian) ottoman cartograph. Also widely credited with inventing the arabic wordpress.
Curiously, he was a christian priest of some kind (its not known which denomination he belonged to?), and he wrote a book called Risâle-i Islâmiyye where he quotes biblical verses in latin, transliterated to ottoman script, mentioning "Ahmedus" (Ahmad, the alternative name for the islamic prophet, with a latin suffix -us). I read the manuscript but did not have the skills to translate the ottoman-latin to something I could understand.
I uploaded the manuscript I found in Istanbul to Picasa, but unfortunately those files seem to have gone lost when they shut down.
- 1cvmask 5y agoWere you there as part of some academic trip? Curious how they let you get hold of the manuscript to upload to Picasa.
- aliswe 5y agoIm a total nobody, really. Never sat foot on a real university. I heard about the manuscript, saw it was in a library in istanbul, travelled there, went to the library, searched it up on their computer, and they gave me the manuscript on a CD for free.