Author
Ali Ufki | 1610-1675 | Sonstige | GND ID: (DE-588)119081520
Publication Date
1827
Publication Place
paris [paris] -
From üt-Tıbâat al-Melikiyet al-Mamûre [Imperial Printing Office]
Subject
Bible / Translation / Turkish / Ottoman / Arabic script, translation | GND-ID: (DE-588)4061418-9, Arabic script | GND ID: (DE-588)4355548-2, Ottoman | GND ID: (DE-588)4213347-6, Turkish | GND-ID: (DE-588)4120079-2, Bible
Type
Book
Language
Ottoman
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
2 Bände
Library
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Library Asset ID
BV008672921
Record ID
991119587399707356
Library Location
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Date
1827
Notes
Bd 1: Kitab ül-Ahd il-Atik. -- Bd 2: Kitab ul-Ahd il-Jedîd
Sample Text
The author of this translation was Wojciech Bobowski, a Polish musician who lived from circa 1610 to 1675. He is better known by his Muslim name, Ali Ufki. Bobowski was born into a Protestant family in Poland. In 1632, he was abducted by the Tatars and sold as a slave in Istanbul. After arriving in the city, he converted to Islam. As a talented musician and dragoman, he quickly gained access to the highest circles of the Ottoman court and earned his freedom. By the time of his death, he was known to speak 16 languages. Ali Ufki, a deeply religious man, began translating the New Testament in 1662. His goal was to introduce this Christian text to the Islamic world to foster better mutual cultural understanding. He completed the translation in 1664, with final corrections made the following year. Although he intended to publish his translation in printed form, the project was never completed. A Dutch merchant named Laurens de Geer brought the manuscript to Leyden for publication. He died in 1666, and the translation remained in the city archives for the next 150 years. In 1819, Ali Ufki's translation of the New Testament was published for the first time by the British and Foreign Bible Society. The book was printed in Paris at the Imprimerie impériale, which at that time housed the finest Arabic types in Europe. Eight years later, in 1827, the first printed edition of the entire Bible, including both the Old and New Testaments, also translproduced by Ali Ufki and published by the British and Foreign Bible Society. This edition was printed in Paris and edited by Jean Daniel Kieffer (1767-1833), who made significant corrections, particularly to the New Testament, refining Ali Ufki's fine 17th-century Ottoman text. This first printed translation of the New Testament from 1819 was followed by the complete Bible translation in 1827, which became the foundation for subsequent Turkish New Testament translations used, by Armenians and Greeks.
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