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A Reading of the Experience of the Sultanic Press in Zanzibar and Its Role in Spreading Omani Culture in East Africa during the Reign of Sultan Barghash ibn Saʿīd (1870–1887)

Qirāʼah fī Tajribat al-Maṭbaʻah al-Sulṭānīyah fī Zanjibār wa-Dawrihā fī Nashr al-Thaqāfah al-ʻUmānīyah fī Sharq Ifrīqiyā khilāl ʻAhd al-Sulṭān Barghash ibn Saʻīd (1870-1887)

قراءة في تجربة المطبعة السلطانية في زنجبار ودورها في نشر الثقافة العُمانية في شرق إفريقيا خلال عهد السلطان برغش بن سعيد (1870–1887)

Aḥmad Bahāʼ ʻAbd al-Razzāq al-Khafājī (Faculty of Education for Girls, University of Kufa)
أ.م.د. أحمد بهاء عبد الرزاق الخفاجي
Conference: The Fifth International Conference in Malaysia: The Omani Printing Movement and Its Impact on Civilizational Exchange — Kuala Lumpur, 2018
Romanized conference title: al-Muʼtamar al-Duwalī al-Khāmis bi-Mālīziyā: Ḥarakat al-Ṭibāʻah al-ʻUmānīyah wa-Atharuhā fī al-Tawāṣul al-Ḥaḍārī
Language of the paper: Arabic — this page presents the English metadata layer.
Permanent citation ID: MHF-PRINT2018-016

Abstract

Among the most important marks of advance and of scholarly, intellectual and epistemic refinement is the existence of presses and of a printing movement, and this is what distinguished Omanis in Oman generally and in Zanzibar in particular: the presence of presses had a great effect on the scholarly and cultural renaissance, and the Sultanic Press had a clear role as a contributing factor in it. Hence the pressing need and importance of surveying inductively the efforts of predecessors in publishing the Omani heritage and culture. The Sultanic Press is among the oldest and most venerable Omani government presses in the African East; its founder was Sultan Barghash ibn Saʿīd ibn Sulṭān (1870–1887), who established it in Zanzibar in 1882. At a time when Sultan Barghash devoted his efforts to advancement, this press became the instrument through which Omani culture reached East Africa.

Keywords

Sultanic PressZanzibarSultan BarghashOmani cultureEast AfricaPrinting history

How to cite

Khafājī, Aḥmad Bahāʼ ʻAbd al-Razzāq. "Qirāʼah fī Tajribat al-Maṭbaʻah al-Sulṭānīyah fī Zanjibār wa-Dawrihā fī Nashr al-Thaqāfah al-ʻUmānīyah fī Sharq Ifrīqiyā khilāl ʻAhd al-Sulṭān Barghash ibn Saʻīd (1870-1887)" [A Reading of the Experience of the Sultanic Press in Zanzibar and Its Role in Spreading Omani Culture in East Africa during the Reign of Sultan Barghash ibn Saʿīd (1870–1887)]. Paper presented at al-Muʼtamar al-Duwalī al-Khāmis bi-Mālīziyā: Ḥarakat al-Ṭibāʻah al-ʻUmānīyah wa-Atharuhā fī al-Tawāṣul al-Ḥaḍārī, Kuwālā Lumbūr, 2018. MHF-PRINT2018-016

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