İbrahim Müteferrika

İbrahim Müteferrika (1674–1745) was an Ottoman diplomat, scholar and printer. Born into a Hungarian Unitarian family in Kolozsvár in Transylvania, he converted to Islam and served the Sublime Porte. In 1726 he petitioned Sultan Ahmed III for leave to print non-religious books in Arabic script.

With the court's firman he opened Istanbul's first Muslim-run press using movable Arabic type. Over two decades he issued twenty-three volumes, including a Turkish-Arabic dictionary, an atlas and works of history and science. He died in 1745.