And you know what, it was also being asked at roughly the same time by the Resterners -- by the people in the rest of the world -- like Ibrahim Muteferrika, an Ottoman official, the man who introduced printing, very belatedly, to the Ottoman Empire -- who said in a book published in 1731, "Why do Christian nations which were so weak in the past compared with Muslim nations begin to dominate so many lands in modern times and even defeat the once victorious Ottoman armies?"
I znate što, gotovo su ga istovremeno postavljali i Ostali - ljudi u ostatku svijeta -- poput Ibrahima Muteferrika, osmanskog službenika, koji je s velikim zakašnjenjem doveo tisak u Osmansko carstvo. U knjizi iz 1731. godine on pita: "Zašto kršćanske nacije koje su bile tako slabe u prošlosti u usporedbi s muslimanskima počinju dominirati tolikim zemljama u moderno doba, pa čak i pobjeđuju nekad slavne osmanske vojske?"