Muhammad Ibn at-Tayib ar-Rudani was a Moroccan qadi who brought the first Arabic printing press to Morocco in 1864.[1][2][3] He came from a learned family from Taroudant.
Press
editHe brought the printing press back from Egypt when he traveled to the Mashreq to perform the Hajj. The press arrived at the port of Essaouira in 1864. It was named al-matba'a as-sa'ida (المطبعة السعيدة 'the felicitous printing press').[1] The first work it published was an edition of Al-Tirmidhi's 9th century hadith collection Ash-Shama'il al-Muhammadiyya.[4]
References
edit- ^ a b العرب, Al Arab (January 23, 2016). "محمد بن الطيب الروداني قاض مغمور يُدخل بلاده عصر التنوير | حسن الوزاني". صحيفة العرب (in Arabic). Retrieved 2022-08-23.
- ^ "قصة أول مطبعة بالمغرب". زمان (in Arabic). 2020-04-14. Retrieved 2022-08-23.
- ^ The book in Africa : critical debates. Caroline Davis, David, May 20- Johnson. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire. 2015. ISBN 978-1-137-40162-5. OCLC 903645847.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ "Unique Collection of early Moroccan Printing now at Penn | Unique at Penn". 2017-03-08. Archived from the original on 2017-03-08. Retrieved 2022-08-23.