Muslims Adopted the Printing Press 300 Years Late!
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💵 https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/hikmahistory 💵 https://www.patreon.com/user?u=12397811 Al-Muqaddimah poster in the background: almuqaddimah.com We got to talk about my man Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of the Printing Press. Whilst it was introduced to Europe in the 1440s, the Ottoman Empire didn't permit Arabic script printing until 1727 — nearly 300 years later. The reasons for the delay were complex. Religious scholars raised concerns about the sanctity of Quranic text being reproduced mechanically. In Europe, books became cheaper, literacy spread, scientific ideas circulated rapidly across borders, and the feedback loop between discovery and dissemination accelerated dramatically. The Islamic world, dependent on hand-copied manuscripts that were expensive, slow to produce and geographically limited in their reach, fell progressively further behind in the circulation of new ideas. By the time Ottoman printing presses were finally operational, Europe had already had three ce
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