Comments on: Early Ottoman Muslim View of the Printing Press http://www.yursil.com/blog/2009/01/ottoman-muslim-view-of-the-printing-press/ islam, muslims, history, excerpts, life Sat, 31 Dec 2011 04:37:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: monin http://www.yursil.com/blog/2009/01/ottoman-muslim-view-of-the-printing-press/#comment-40963 monin Thu, 22 Apr 2010 08:11:41 +0000 http://www.yursil.com/blog/?p=1657#comment-40963 Well my question is if it looks ugly then why not they make them beautiful? Why they not created their own font blocks.?Its not that technology of printing press was closed so that you cannot modify it. Reject an important technology because it looks bad! This kind of closed thinking is the reason for muslims are now fallen behind. Well my question is if it looks ugly then why not they make them beautiful? Why they not created their own font blocks.?Its not that technology of printing press was closed so that you cannot modify it. Reject an important technology because it looks bad! This kind of closed thinking is the reason for muslims are now fallen behind.

]]> By: George Carty http://www.yursil.com/blog/2009/01/ottoman-muslim-view-of-the-printing-press/#comment-37861 George Carty Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:25:28 +0000 http://www.yursil.com/blog/?p=1657#comment-37861 Why couldn't the Muslims have used the printing press for secular documents only? Or was the problem simply that it was very difficult to design a set of moveable type that would do justice to the Arabic script? Why couldn’t the Muslims have used the printing press for secular documents only? Or was the problem simply that it was very difficult to design a set of moveable type that would do justice to the Arabic script?

]]> By: yursil http://www.yursil.com/blog/2009/01/ottoman-muslim-view-of-the-printing-press/#comment-37814 yursil Wed, 21 Jan 2009 02:19:58 +0000 http://www.yursil.com/blog/?p=1657#comment-37814 BismillahirRahmanirRahim Salamu'alaykum, Thanks for the comments. The reason I posted it is because the Muslims are often criticized for delaying adoption of the printing press. On the other hand what this demonstrates is that what the Muslims were actually faced with adopting were not the high tech solutions of today, but expensive and inferior mass-produced products that didn't meet our needs. BismillahirRahmanirRahim
Salamu’alaykum,

Thanks for the comments. The reason I posted it is because the Muslims are often criticized for delaying adoption of the printing press. On the other hand what this demonstrates is that what the Muslims were actually faced with adopting were not the high tech solutions of today, but expensive and inferior mass-produced products that didn’t meet our needs.

]]> By: mujahid7ia http://www.yursil.com/blog/2009/01/ottoman-muslim-view-of-the-printing-press/#comment-37810 mujahid7ia Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:30:49 +0000 http://www.yursil.com/blog/?p=1657#comment-37810 Jazak Allahu khayra for this enlightening post Jazak Allahu khayra for this enlightening post

]]> By: Umm Layth http://www.yursil.com/blog/2009/01/ottoman-muslim-view-of-the-printing-press/#comment-37807 Umm Layth Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:52:13 +0000 http://www.yursil.com/blog/?p=1657#comment-37807 bismillah as salamu 'alaykum Very interesting. I've read some things in the recent weeks related to this topic when I do my searches on education. I think I heard something about this (have to go back and listen) in Sheikh Hamza's cd's titled Education Your Child in Modern Times with the speaker John Taylor Gatto. One of the problems that was feared was the loss of the art of memorization and subhana'Allah here we are. bismillah

as salamu ‘alaykum

Very interesting. I’ve read some things in the recent weeks related to this topic when I do my searches on education. I think I heard something about this (have to go back and listen) in Sheikh Hamza’s cd’s titled Education Your Child in Modern Times with the speaker John Taylor Gatto. One of the problems that was feared was the loss of the art of memorization and subhana’Allah here we are.

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