<P> kufic script, with border decorations . </P> <P> Wood - block printing of extracts from the Quran is on record as early as the 10th century . </P> <P> Arabic movable type printing was ordered by Pope Julius II (r . 1503--1512) for distribution among Middle Eastern Christians . The first complete Quran printed with movable type was produced in Venice in 1537 / 1538 for the Ottoman market by Paganino Paganini and Alessandro Paganini . Two more editions include those published by the pastor Abraham Hinckelmann in Hamburg in 1694, and by Italian priest Ludovico Maracci in Padua in 1698 with Latin translation and commentary . </P> <P> Printed copies of the Quran during this period met with strong opposition from Muslim legal scholars: printing anything in Arabic was prohibited in the Ottoman empire between 1483 and 1726--initially, even on penalty of death . The Ottoman ban on printing in Arabic script was lifted in 1726 for non-religious texts only upon the request of Ibrahim Muteferrika, who printed his first book in 1729 . Very few books, and no religious texts, were printed in the Ottoman Empire for another century . </P>

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