10 Ottoman Myths Debunked with Dr Yakoob Ahmed
The Thinking Muslim
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The Importance of Imagination in History
The idea that a civilization goes up and then down, which is what we've internalized. It didn't work like that. Actually, it's peaks and troughs, hops and downs. Look at the football team. They had their Hades in the 1980s, struggled in the 1990s, come back. This is ups and downs. Even in the lowest moments, they're still winning trophies, haven't they? Yes. Yeah. But I suppose what we're trying to understand, you're right. So we're thinking about history and how that history informs our decline state today or our problematic state today or the position of the Ummah.
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