
The Ottoman Ulema 2: The Printing Press, Coffee and Secularisation with Dr Yakoob Ahmed
The Thinking Muslim
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The Ottoman Band the Printing Press
Ottomans band the printing of specific things in the printed press. Or they would say, you can use the printed press, but no religious books iin inislam. So what is it? A band against itis? Not? What we afterwards see is that the moslem world and islamic civilization were being developed equally side by side. And a lot of moslems to day are relegating the importance of ora tradition,. In the early period, there were lema who were looking at this and technologies and so forth. Once ottomans started introducing the printed press into their society, there was no disadvantage.
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