Dawr al-ʻUmānīyīn fī Ṭibāʻat wa-Nashr al-Kutub al-ʻUmānīyah - Nabhānī, Sālim ibn Ḥamad; al-Muʼtamar al-Duwalī al-Khāmis bi-Mālīziyā: Ḥarakat al-Ṭibāʻah al-ʻUmānīyah wa-Atharuhā fī al-Tawāṣul al-Ḥaḍārī (2018) (Kuwālā Lumbūr) (Kuwālā Lumbūr : Markaz Dhākirat ʻUmān, 2018)
Printing is among the most important things humankind achieved in the fifteenth century CE, and it is natural to find printing accompanied by publishing. For printing and publishing to take place, material support is required, whether official and governmental or through individuals, and this without doubt helps to diversify the books printed and published, and in turn contributes to enriching the Omani library with many books, which has a positive effect on cultural and intellectual life. Most books in Oman were copied by hand until recent times — the nineteen-fifties — whereas in Zanzibar printing was more advanced because of the establishment of the Sultanic Press in the time of Sayyid Barghash ibn Saʿīd in 1299 AH / 1882 CE. Printing naturally requires financial funding given all that accompanies the matter of producing a book, and this paper examines how Omanis met that need.
Permanent citation identifier: MHF-PRINT2018-004.
Conference theme (in Arabic): المحور الثاني: المطابع العُمانية وجهود المؤسسات والأفراد.
Text in Arabic; title also romanized (ALA-LC); abstract and keywords in English.
Keywords: Omani books; Printing and publishing; Funding; Zanzibar; Manuscript copying; Cultural life