THE ROMANIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SYRIAN-ROMANIAN CULTURAL RELATIONS THROUGH THE BOOKS PRINTED BY THE SYRIAN PATRIARCH ATHANASIUS III DABBAS (1701-1711)
THE ROMANIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SYRIAN-ROMANIAN CULTURAL RELATIONS THROUGH THE BOOKS PRINTED BY THE SYRIAN PATRIARCH ATHANASIUS III DABBAS (1701-1711)
Author(s): Kabibo NizarSubject(s): Cultural history, History of ideas, Political history
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: Printing Press; Cultural relations; Dabbas; Brancoveanu; Syria; Romania;
Summary/Abstract: The Romanian contributions to the Syrian-Romanian cultural relations are huge; the first printing press entered the Christian and the Islamic worlds in all Arab countries was the one taken from Bucharest by the Syrian Patriarch Athansius III Dabbas to Syria in 1706. Prince of Wallachia, Constantin Brancoveanu, gave no conditional support to Dabbas; he provided Dabbas with money, a qualified assistant, locations for setting the printing press, all issues needed to print books and also he gifted him the printing press! The prince, also, allowed Dabbas to take to Syria the copies of the two books printed in Snagov and Bucharest (1701-1702). Dabbas printed in Syria with this printing press eleven books in Arabic in the period 1706-1711, all of these books were Christian ones.
Journal: Journal of Romanian Literary Studies
- Issue Year: 2020
- Issue No: 20
- Page Range: 1313-1317
- Page Count: 5
- Language: English