“As the first English language monograph dedicated to early Ottoman printing, Orlin Sabev’s Waiting for Müteferrika: Glimpses of Ottoman Print Culture offers an informative and thoroughly researched assessment of how print technology and culture permeated the Ottoman book market and society in the eighteenth century. … One of the book’s great strengths is the broad and creative expanse of these sources, which present an assortment of insights into Ottoman attitudes toward printing and printed books. … Waiting for Müteferrika: Glimpses of Ottoman Print Culture stands tall as the first English language scholarly work devoted solely to the Müteferrika press. It is a book that Ottoman historians and Turkologists alike have been waiting for, and it will also prove valuable for scholars of early print, incunabula, modernization, Islamic studies, and Middle East studies.”

—Yasemin Gencer, Indiana University, Journal of Near Eastern Studies