"This volume contains revised and edited versions of papers presented at the Third International Symposium on the History of Printing and Publishing in the Languages and Countries of the Middle East, held at the University of Leipzig, 24-27 September 2008, in conjunction with the 24th Congress of the Union Europeenne des Arabisants et Islamisants (UEAI) and in cooperation with the Oriental Institute, University of Leipzig"--Preface.
Mediaeval Arabic block printing : state of the field / Karl Schaefer
Fruher Druck mit arabischen Typen in Leipzig, 17.-18. Jahrhundert / Boris Liebrenz
Enlightenment in the Ottoman context : Ibrahim Muteferrika and his intellectual landscape / Vefa Erginbas
Waiting for Godot : the formation of Ottoman print culture / Orlin Sabev (Orhan Salih)
Printing and the abuse of texts in al-Gabarti's History of Egypt / Sarah Mirza
Judaeo-Arabic printing in North Africa, 1850-1950 / Yosef Tobi
Marginal miniatures : the Tehran edition of al-Damiri's Hayat al-hayawan (1285/1868) / Ulrich Marzolph
The establishment of the Syrian Orthodox Patriarchate press / Ahmet Tasgin and Robert Langer
L'Imprimerie Ebuzziya et l'art d'imprimer dans l'Empire Ottoman a la fin du XIXe siecle / Ozgur Turesay
A champion of printing quality in the Ottoman Turkish press of the Second Constitutional period : Sehbal journal / Bora Ataman and Cem Pekman
Arabic and bilingual newspapers and magazines in Latin America and the Caribbean / Philipp Bruckmayr
A short history of Kurdish publishing and prospects for its future / Blair Kuntz
The Bulaq Press Museum at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina / Ahmed Mansour.
Historical aspects of printing and publishing in languages of the Middle East : papers from the Third Symposium on the History of Printing and Publishing in the Languages and Countries of the Middle E. ISBN 9789004255050. Published by Brill in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.