In this episode of the Blood Brothers Podcast, Dilly Hussain speaks with the prominent Ottoman historian, author and thinker, Dr. Yakoob Ahmed.
Topics of discussion include:
- ‘Pan-Islam’ and ‘Islamism’ – problematic framings and language.
- Caliph Abdulhamid II’s vision of Islamic unity in the Muslim world.
- The Muslim ummah’s Islamic identity and belonging.
- Understanding history and politics with an Islamic lens.
- Recep Tayyip Erdogan, neo-Ottomanism and the Turkish Republic.
- Gaza genocide, the nation state, AI and an emerging multipolar world.
- Is romanticism and nostalgia necessary for Islamic revival?
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