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Calligrapher Osman Zeki Bey Becomes the First Printer Authorized to the Print the Qur'an in Istanbul

1866

In 1866 Osman Zeki Bey, an Ottoman calligrapher, opened his printing office called Matbaa-i Osmaniye in Istanbul. Osman Zeki Bey was the first printer authorized by the Ottoman Palace to print the Qur'an (Koran).

Kuran-Burcoglu, "Osman Zeki Bey and his Printing Office the Matbaa-i-Osmaniye," Sadgrove (ed) History of Printing and Publishing the Languages and Countries of the Middle East (2005) 35-58.

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