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The Dig: Before the West w/ Ayşe Zarakol

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The Ottoman Suni and the Sapabid Empire

The ottomans made a pretty plausible claim to millennial sovereign sovereignty through just a lot of conquest. To solve this problem, thomas turned to the occult sciences andte ottoman suni. Suns on in this period was paralleled in the sapabid realms by a similar shiisation. The ulama gained increasing power to check the ottoman sovereign while the sapabids moved from sufi milinarianism to a more orthodox twelver shi orthodoxy. It's always thi ina tradof i mean, we see it with almost all, all of the examples discussed in the book ason stop. You have to kind of lean on other modes

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