Why did the Ottoman Caliphate fall 99 years ago? - with Dr Yakoob Ahmed
The Thinking Muslim
The Motives of the Young Turks
The Young Turks were a group of men who became disenfranchised by the politics of Abdul Hamid II and for various reasons that included Olamat as well. Most historians now would make the argument that those turcification policies had two main strategies one was to centralize the state in which Turkish or Ottoman Turkish at the time would have been the official language of the state. As a result they were trying to make that Arab elites also knew Ottolian Turkish in the Arab provinces. They struck back towards Istanbul when Nakhdas take in this place and you know we're all satisfied with this but there are concerns that it will create an environment in which Arabs may lose our heritage, says
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