Geoffrey Roper was head of the Islamic Bibliography Unit at Cambridge University Library, and has written and lectured extensively on Middle Eastern printing and publishing history. He was an Associate Editor of the Oxford Companion to the Book (2010).

• ContentsPrefaceMediæval Arabic Block Printing: State of the FieldKarl SchaeferFrüher Druck mit arabischen Typen in Leipzig, 17.-18. JahrhundertBoris LiebrenzEnlightenment in the Ottoman Context: İbrahim Müteferrika and His Intellectual LandscapeVefa ErginbaşWaiting for Godot: The Formation of Ottoman Print CultureOrlin Sabev (Orhan Salih)Printing and the Abuse of Texts in al-Ǧabartī’s History of EgyptSarah MirzaJudæo-Arabic Printing in North Africa, 1850-1950Yosef TobiMarginal Miniatures: The Tehran Edition of al-Damīrī’s Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān (1285/1868)Ulrich MarzolphThe Establishment of the Syrian Orthodox Patriarchate PressAhmet Taşğın and Robert LangerL’Imprimerie Ebüzziya et l’art d’imprimer dans l’Empire ottoman à la fin du XIXe siècleÖzgür Türesay A Champion of Printing Quality in the Ottoman Turkish Press of the Second Constitutional Period: Şehbal JournalBora Ataman and Cem PekmanArabic and Bilingual Newspapers and Magazines in Latin America and the CaribbeanPhilipp BruckmayrA Short History of Kurdish Publishing and Prospects for its FutureBlair KuntzThe Bulaq Press Museum at the Bibliotheca AlexandrinaAhmed Mansour

“…scientifically elaborate and richly illustrated volume.”Nikos Nikoloudis in Journal of Oriental and African Studies 24 (2015) 471-474.