
10 Ottoman Myths Debunked with Dr Yakoob Ahmed
The Thinking Muslim
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The Modernization Theory and the Fall of the Ottoman Empire
Arab nationalism was not alien to what was taking place in Western academia. In the 1950s is where you get the emergence of the modernization theory, but not Lewis and so forth. So basically the Ottomans are secularizing to modernize. And they need to secularize in order to be modern. Now if you're in Malaysia or in Palestine, you've got other projects going on. Ottoman history is irrelevant to you. But how do we then make the case for Islam in the contemporary period without having to grapple with this framework, which is modernity?
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