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What We Get Wrong About Studying Muslim History With Dr Yakoob Ahmed

Sep 07, 20241 hr 13 min
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It is said a people without a past are a lost soul. And in today’s turbulent world, the Muslim ummah has come to realise that we have, in many cases, been taught a version of history that fails to appreciate what the late Shabbir Akhtar called Islam as a imperial faith.

Dr Yakoob Ahmed is an academic specialising in late Ottoman history. He was until recently a lecturer in Islamic history at Istanbul University. He is a regular to this podcast and writes and lectures extensively on Ottoman history. He is the author of a soon to be published title, Does History Matter – history done islamically - the conversation of today.


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0:00 Introduction

2:00 Gaza at the crossed roads

8:08 History as a vocation

11:08 Islam as an Imperial Faith

14:40 Historians providing solutions

19:48 What are we doing wrong with history?

25:26 Idealism?

32:50 The Quran and History

37:32 Ibn Khuldun’s cyclical theory

43:22 Islam and the production of knowledge

50:40 Fiction and Ertrugul

55:20 Islamic method of history?

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