caa a22 4500 388101563 CHVBK 20180307125323.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199905 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0020743800054040 doi S0020743800054040 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0020743800054040 Trix Frances Department of Anthropology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Mich. 48202, U.S.A.. The Stamboul Alphabet Of Shemseddin Sami Bey: Precursor To Turkish Script Reform [Elektronische Daten] [Frances Trix] Comparative studies of writing systems and script conversion tend to emphasize the extent of cultural re-orientation and the rapidity of implementation of Turkey's shift from the Arabic to the Roman script, but they rarely mention the period that led up to this change. As early as 1863, the Azeri playwright Ahunzade Mirza Fethali presented a proposal for a Latin orthography for Turkish, before the Cemiyet-i ilmiye-i Osmaniye (Ottoman Society of Science) in Istanbul. A second event in Ottoman script reform, though less well known than Ahunzade's proposal, was the adoption by many former members of the Cemiyet-i ilmiye-i Arnavudiye (Albanian Society of Science), in Istanbul, in 1879, of a Latin-based alphabet for Albanian. This "Stamboul Alphabet” was designed by Shemseddin Sami Bey and, unlike Ahunzade's proposal, was immediately acted upon and subsequently adopted by the new Albanian presses in Bucharest and Sofia, from which it spread through southern and central Albanian lands, all still under Ottoman rule. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999 International Journal of Middle East Studies Cambridge University Press 31/2(1999-05), 255-272 0020-7438 31:2<255 1999 31 MES https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743800054040 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743800054040 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Trix Frances Department of Anthropology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Mich. 48202, U.S.A NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Journal of Middle East Studies Cambridge University Press 31/2(1999-05), 255-272 0020-7438 31:2<255 1999 31 MES CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge