translation.en: 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 begin to dominate so many lands in modern times
translation.zh: 无独有偶 几乎在同一时期 西方国家之外的人 其中有伊布拉希姆·穆特费黎加 一位奥斯曼帝国的大官 也是后来将印刷术 引入奥斯曼帝国的人 在他1731年出版的一本书里 他说：“ 与穆斯林国家相比， 基督教国家原先显得弱不经风， 但他们何以在现代统治了大片土地，