{"product_id":"printed-naval-science-from-bulaq-knowledge-in-transit-in-the-arab-region","title":"Printed naval science from Bulaq: knowledge in transit in the Arab region","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e[“Kapudân Antûn (Captain Antoine)”; translated by Meḥmet Efendi Mustafâ el-Tercüman(?)].\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eمجموعة\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eفن\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eالبحرية\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e[Mecmûa-i Fenn-i Bahriye; Compendium of Naval Science].\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eBulaq [Cairo], Dâr al-Tibâ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eʿ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003ea al-\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eʿ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: 'Aptos Display'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eÂ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003emira \/ Bulaq Press, Muharram 1254 AH [March\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: 'Aptos Display'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e–\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eApril 1838].\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eFolio, 30,5 x 20 cm. XIV, IV, 92, 48, 98, 176, 158 pp. With 10 folding lithographed plates, including maps, astronomical and geometrical diagrams, navigational instruments and tables. Ottoman Turkish in Arabic script. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eContemporary full green \u003cspan style=\"color: #0e2841; mso-themecolor: text2;\"\u003ecalf\u003c\/span\u003e, with a small gilt floral ornament, spine plain, yellow edges. Binding rubbed and partly worn; endpapers lacking; first leaf partly loose; ownership note to inside upper board.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003e               \u003c\/span\u003eA remarkable early example of scientific knowledge in transit through print: this Bulaq-printed manual with folding lithographed plates transforms European naval science into Ottoman-Turkish instruction for use in the Arabic maritime world. Produced in Cairo in Arabic, \u003ci\u003eMecmûa-i Fenn-i Bahriye\u003c\/i\u003e is not only a book about navigation, but also a material witness to the movement of technical knowledge across languages, institutions and regions in the early nineteenth-century Arabic-speaking world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe Bulaq press was the first Arab indigenous modern printing press and thus one of the foundational institutions of modern print culture in the Arab region. Although Arabic-script printing had earlier precedents, and Napoleon\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Aptos; mso-hansi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003es expedition had briefly introduced printing to Egypt, Bulaq was the first sustained state press in Egypt, established under Mu\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḥ\u003c\/span\u003eammad \u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eʿ\u003c\/span\u003eAl\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Aptos; mso-hansi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eī\u003c\/span\u003e Pasha. This work belongs to its early technical and military publishing programme and in its scope and presentation it is a particularly ambitious example.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThis “first printing” (see colophon) offers a substantial compendium of naval and maritime science, prepared as a practical and instructional manual for navigation, seamanship and naval education. The work is arranged in five parts and covers the mathematical, astronomical and practical foundations of navigation, including geometry, calculation, the movements of celestial bodies, tides, hydrography, coastal phenomena and sailing directions.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe book opens with an ornamental lithographic title-page headed \u003ci\u003eFenn-i Bahriye\u003c\/i\u003e, “Maritime Science”, followed by the first part, \u003ci\u003eMabādi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eʾ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e-i Fenn-i Ba\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḥ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eriyye\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e, “Principles of Maritime Science”. The opening defines navigation as the movement of a vessel from one point of the sea to another by means of calculated direction, distance and position. The work therefore begins with the mathematical disciplines necessary for navigation before proceeding to practical seamanship. Later sections treat the movements of the tides, the calculation of courses and distances, the determination of latitude and longitude, and the application of numerical tables to real navigational problems.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe ten folding lithographed plates form the scientific apparatus of the book. They include a coastal chart with rhumb lines, circular astronomical diagrams, geometrical constructions, an armillary sphere, protractors and navigational instruments, including a sextant-like instrument. These plates are not merely decorative illustrations: the final pages of the text explicitly refer the reader to the following tables and diagrams for the calculation of latitude, longitude, distance, course and the point of arrival. The final printed statement, placed on the verso of the last folding plate, records the printing at Cairo in Muharram 1254 AH and states that this was the first printing. It also names this book as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eKitāb al-Ba\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḥ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003er\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe Book of the Sea).\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAs such, \u003ci\u003eMecmûa-i Fenn-i Bahriye\u003c\/i\u003e is more than a manual of seamanship. It is a printed course in the sciences of navigation and one of the clearest examples of how early nineteenth-century Egyptian printing could turn specialised European knowledge into locally usable technical instruction. It stands at the intersection of European naval science, Ottoman-Turkish translation, Egyptian state reform and the emergence of modern technical print culture in the Arab world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eCondition: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eBinding a bit rubbed. Contents generally in excellent clean and bright condition; some spotting to the blank edges of some folding plates, minor foxing to some index leaves. Two contemporary inscriptions on front paste-down.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eReferences:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eHeyworth-Dunne, J. “Printing and Translations under Mu\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḥ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eammad ‘Alī of Egypt: The Foundation of Modern Arabic.” \u003ci\u003eJournal of the Royal Asiatic Society\u003c\/i\u003e, vol. 72, no. 4, 1940, pp. 325–349.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eİhsanoğlu, Ekmeleddin. “The Bulaq Press and the Turkish Books Printed There.” \u003ci\u003eThe Turks in Egypt and Their Cultural Legacy\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by Humphrey Davies, American University in Cairo Press, 2012, pp. 323–344.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eVerdery, Richard N. “The Publications of the Būlāq Press under Mu\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḥ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eammad \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eʿ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAl\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: 'Aptos Display'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eī\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e of Egypt.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: 'Aptos Display'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003ci\u003eJournal of the American Oriental Society\u003c\/i\u003e, vol. 91, no. 1, 1971, pp. 129–132.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53862558368087,"sku":null,"price":12500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/131dc6ff-318c-4510-a6fe-d72db42b354a_736b6cd1-87af-43c1-9990-0e7b38137aca.png?v=1782313730","url":"https:\/\/artemrarebooks.com\/products\/printed-naval-science-from-bulaq-knowledge-in-transit-in-the-arab-region","provider":"Artem Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}