Ibrahim Muteferrika was a Hungarian-born Ottoman diplomat, publisher, economist, historian, Islamic theologian, sociologist, and the first Muslim to run a printing press with movable Arabic type.
Sultan Ahmed III receives French ambassador Vicomte d'Andrezel at Topkapı Palace.
Bust of Muteferrika
Ahmed III was sultan of the Ottoman Empire and a son of sultan Mehmed IV. His mother was Gülnuş Sultan, originally named Evmania Voria, who was an ethnic Greek. He was born at Hacıoğlu Pazarcık, in Dobruja. He succeeded to the throne in 1703 on the abdication of his brother Mustafa II (1695–1703). Nevşehirli Damat İbrahim Pasha and the Sultan's daughter, Fatma Sultan directed the government from 1718 to 1730, a period referred to as the Tulip Era.
Miniature by Abdulcelil Levni
Ahmed III is proclaimed sultan and prepares to gird the sword of Osman
Ahmed III in the Imperial Darbar of Topkapi Palace.
Sultan Ahmed III at a reception, painted in 1720