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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