Original air date: 3 March 2013 | Printing in Ottoman Turkish first emerged during the eighteenth century. Yet, even when print had arrived in full force by the middle of the nineteenth century, it remained forbidden to print the text most sought after by Ottoman readers: the Qur'an. In this episode, Brett Wilson discusses the rise of print and Qur'an printing in the Ottoman Empire as well as the emergence of Turkish translations of the Qur'an in the late Ottoman and early Republican eras.

The audio clip preceding this episode is a recording of a Turkish version of the Fatiha composed by Hamdi Döndüren and read by Ahmet Deniz