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
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，