
The Ottoman Ulema 2: The Printing Press, Coffee and Secularisation with Dr Yakoob Ahmed
The Thinking Muslim
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What Is the Problem With Abdulhamid?
Abdullahamid may have had good intentions wit is, but you cansee the ramifications of these sort of things. Abder amit a balancing act of tri to balance the colonial powers in terms of ther aggression to the outoman domains. He became a victim of an intellectual discourse which was trying to create a structure of what the caliphate ought to be. And even this becomes problematic, becausen how you go on takin how you hold abdelhamid do? Are you kidding me? So i give him another example: When near the end of his reign he called the new parliament and lamented that they hadn't reopened the old one.
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