إبراهيم متفرقة ودوره في إنشاء المطبعة العربية 1670-1744

Abstract EN

The research sheds light on a man of the Ottoman Empire, who has great credit for introducing modernization to the joints of the state.

He is the famous personality Ibrahim Muftara, a diplomat, author and translator of Hungarian origin who sought refuge in the Ottoman Empire and converted from Christianity to Islam Because of his knowledge of the French, Turkish and Hungarian languages, his skills in political and organizational matters, and his special abilities to conduct negotiations, the state appointed him as an advisor and special envoy to the Sultan for Foreign Affairs.

The research deals with sporadic efforts in establishing the Arabic printing press and the message of (The Means of Printing).

Which he sent separately to Sultan Ahmed III (1730-1703) to give him the authority to establish a printing press, and then his second letter in 1726 after his first attempt failed, explicitly requesting that books be printed Then the research deals with the firman issued by Ahmed III in 1726, in which he authorized the practice of The profession of printing and the establishment of the printing press, then the research talks about the establishment and management of the printing press by Ibrahim Muftaqa and Saeed Effendi.

and the characteristics that distinguished him from sporadic publications and his mastery of work, then a sporadic death in 1744 and the disruption of his printing for thirty-seven years to include an important page of this art that he scattered striving to preserve.