Feb 27, 2023
Dr. Yakoob Ahmed is a PhD graduate of the Department of Languages and Cultures, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He also graduated from the same institution with a Masters degree in Near and Middle East Studies with a focus on Ottoman history and Turkish politics. His research focuses are Late Ottoman History, Muslim intellectual thought in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Islamic constitutionalism, nation-state construction, ulema history of the Late Ottoman state, identity and collective memory construction.
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0:00 - Start
1:58 - Why he's in the United States?
5:25 - Why did he become a historian?
7:23 - SOAS
11:00 - What part of UK he's from?
12:25 - Why Ottoman History? 13:54 - What is Empire?
15:55 - Were the Ottomans a Caliphate?
21:00 - Questions on the legitimacy
26:00 - When did it start to decline?
28:13 - Periodization
28:54 - What CHATGPT thinks caused the collapse?
39:30 - What could have prevented collapse?
49:45 - Lessons learned
57:22 - The Janissaries
1:04:03 - Periods on Consolidation
1:07:30 - Attitude towards Arabs
1:15:30 - Armenia
1:18:00 - Crimea 1:21:15 - Fratricide
1:23:49 - The Harem
1:29:25 - Jizyah
1:32:50 - Relationship with the Mughals
1:38:50 - Academic Freedom
1:48:50 - Was there spiritual corruption?
1:49:50 - What kind of Caliphate should Muslims have?
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