Cultural and historical influence of the Turkic-speaking first printer İbrahim Muteferrika on the development of publishing in Bashkortostan

Abstract

The article examines the personality of Ibrahim Muteferrick as a historian and thinker. He first brought the printing press to the Islamic world. The activity of the great Ibrahim Muteferrick is known far beyond the borders of Turkey and the Turkish-speaking world. His ideas are in tune with many enlighteners of that time and who lived in a much later period. The article reveals the peculiarities of Muteferrick’s personality, innovative ideas for creating an Islamic book. The authors conclude that the search for Muteferrick in the printing business influenced the development of publishing in the Turkic-speaking republics of Russia. The art of creating a national book of the Muslim republics. Tataria and Bashkiria is not exception here. The article presents an overview of the best representatives of the creative intelligentsia in the field of publishing Bashkiria of the late XIX – early XX centuries. They managed to express plastically all the complexity of the era through the prism of national culture. The authors were interested in tracing the relationship between the activities of Muteferrick and Bashkir educators in the field of publishing. Our hypothesis about the close interaction of the Turkish-speaking and Bashkir publishing culture is based on the research of a prominent Bashkir scientist and philosopher Zia Kamali (ParvazetdinYamaletdinovich Kamaletdinov). The development and formation of typographic art in Bashkiria was influenced by such factors as the national graphic culture of the republic, the canons of Arabic writing.