Icons, Ornaments, and Other Charms of Christian Arabic Books

Icons, Ornaments, and Other Charms of Christian Arabic Books / Oana Iacubovschi, Samuel Noble, Ioana Feodorov, Yulia Petrova. Berlin-Boston: De Gruyter, 2024, 633 p.

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     The second volume of Collected Works of the ERC Project Early Arabic Printing for the Arab Christians. Cultural Transfers between Eastern Europe and the Ottoman Near-East in the 18^th Century (TYPARABIC) contains the enlarged papers from two conferences convened by the project team: “Spread the Word. Books Printed for the Arabic-Speaking Christians in the 18^th Century”, held on June 22 and 23, 2023, at the Forschungsbibliothek Gotha (Germany), and “Towards a Printed-Book Culture in Eastern Europe and the Ottoman Levant”, held on March 19 and 20, 2024, at the Library of the Holy Synod in Bucharest (Romania). The volume consists of five sections: “The Arabic-Speaking Christians in the Age of Printing”; “The Avatars of Printing for a Middle Eastern Readership”; “Collectors and Collections of Oriental Books from the West to the East”; “Artistic Encounters in the Iconography and the Printed Books of the East”; “Patrons of Printing in the 18^th and 19^th Centuries: the Phanariot Princes and Their Like”.

ISBN 978-3111068473