Constantinople and the Scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor

book is composed, and that on which the name of Allah is written; and

hence they strictly prohibit its being desecrated by any common use, and carefully lay up any fragment of it which they accidentally find. The process of printing they consider as compressing and defiling a sacred book, and the mufti denounced it. It was not, then, till the year 1727, that this innovation was tole...