The Ottoman Ulema 1: Osman, The Caliphate & The Mamluks - With Dr Yakoob Ahmed
The Thinking Muslim
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The Ottoman State and the Revolt, Protest and Revolution
Why couldn't the cailiph just use his power to undermine these institutions and create, in a way, a strong authoritarian centre? We do see attempts of that fromi etiand i guess this is what people don't understand about i mustin political discourse. The olama are not restricted just to the ottoman domains. They olama in india,. they olama in malesia. They olema an china and africa. Everyone can have a say here. So sometimes when is interesting, you see things happening in estanbu. You see works in egypt being written and so forth. It's just that every solton was doing it wasn't
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