Feodorov Lab

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ERC Advanced Grant · 2019

Early Arabic Printing for the Arab Christians. Cultural Transfers between Eastern Europe and the Ottoman Near-East in the 18th century

The main objective of the Project is to examine the circumstances and outcomes of printing in Arabic with Arabic type in the 18th century Greater Syria (modern Syria and Lebanon), for Byzantine-rite and Catholic Arab Christians. It addresses the connections between Eastern Europe and the Arab Christians of the Ottoman Empire and the social progress brought by the print culture. It focuses on the transfer of printing technology from Moldavia and Wallachia (the Romanian Principalities) to the Ottoman provinces, for the benefit of the Arab Christians. It aims to yield a systematic, detailed inventory of the Arabic books printed in 1701-1800 in the Romanian Principalities and Greater Syria.…

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