1141 AH
Ibrahim Muteferrika prints the first book in Ottoman Turkish, a dictionary. His press prints maps, histories and science, but not the Quran.
How it touches Islam Printing the Quran was long resisted, out of reverence for the hand-written word and the scribes who wrote it.
Source: History ·
Borders come from Cliopatria, the open map of the Seshat Global History Databank (CC BY 4.0), and are approximate. Dates before 1000 BCE are estimates, and for the earliest prophets the Quran gives the order of events but not their years. Sources: the Quran, Sahih al-Bukhari and Muslim, the Seerah of Ibn Ishaq, Ibn Kathir's al-Bidaya wan-Nihaya, and standard histories. See also the villains of Islamic history, from Iblis to the Dajjal, and the library of people, nations, empires and places.
