Ibrahim Muteferrika (about 1674 to 1745 or 1747) was a Hungarian-born Ottoman diplomat, publisher and writer, the first Muslim to run a printing press with movable Arabic type. Born in Kolozsvar (present-day Cluj-Napoca) in Transylvania to a Unitarian background, he converted to Islam, entered Ottoman service and took his name from the court rank of muteferrika. With imperial permission granted by Sultan Ahmed III in 1727 for non-religious works, his Istanbul press issued its first book in 1729 and about seventeen titles by 1743, including dictionaries, histories and geographies. His own treatise Usul ul-Hikem fi Nizam ul-Umem (1732) examined the causes of the 1730 Patrona rebellion and argued for European-style military and administrative reform, which is why some modern accounts count him among the first Ottoman social and political thinkers. Sources differ on his exact dates.
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the author called for pro-European military reforms to enhance order and army discipline
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