Looking into the history of the printing press I was surprised to find that it was the Venetians who first printed in arabic, and it was all a business strategy to sell bibles in arabic speaking countries, classic Venetians.

Even when the printing press spread to the ottoman empire it was jews, greeks and other non arabic speaking people using it, and the first printing presses in arabic were made by christian monks.

The more I look into this topic, the more baffled I am, the first printed Quran was again made by Italians in 1537 while the ottomans were still not printing qurans in mass 200 years later.

The weirdest part of it all is that muslims love writing, specially love historical records, you'd think they'd jump at the opportunity to make their sacred book, the hadiths, and the works of their philosophers easily and widely accessible, but for some reason they didn't