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10 Ottoman Myths Debunked with Dr Yakoob Ahmed

The Thinking Muslim

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The Importance of Coffee

There is this heavy view that the Ottomans repressed Arab identity in the 600 year history of the Ottoman Empire. The importance of coffee is that it has a political component, and they target him per se. They can't ban the substance, you have to find different ways of,. Even when they did stop people from drinking the substance, people were still drinking coffee. And then they had to find ways of loosening that.

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