Virtual Event: Nir Shafir: How to Read in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire, The Humanities Institute (UC Santa Cruz), October 8, 2020, @12-1:30pm
Nir Shafir: How to Read in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire (and the Islamic world at large) was a manuscript culture until the late nineteenth century. That is, many Ottoman subjects continued to copy books by hand even though they had been aware of printing in European lands for centuries. In recent … Continue reading Virtual Event: Nir Shafir: How to Read in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire, The Humanities Institute (UC Santa Cruz), October 8, 2020, @12-1:30pm