Dr Yakoob Ahmed | Sultan Abdulhamid II, Pan-Islam, Empire & Erdogan | BB #193

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, belonging and destiny.
• 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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