Tarikh-al-tiba`a fi al-sharq al-arabi

A useful and quite detailed history of Arabic-script printing in Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Palestine, Jordan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar, from the 17th century to the 1960s. Although it contains little about type design, it is a mine of information on the printing establishments, their owners and their vicissitudes.