Hagia Sophia: What Western news isn’t telling you | Dr Yakoob Ahmed | Unscripted #55

By Dr Yakoob Ahmed 28 Shw 43 ◦︎ 29 May 22 0 Min Read

On the grand reopening of Masjid Aya Sophia, Ottoman historian Dr Yakoob Ahmed discusses the history and broader Eurocentric discourses surrounding the Hagia Sophia, Islamic history and conquest. He speaks about decolonising history, epistemicide, empowering the next generations of Muslims, and much more.

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Source: www.islam21c.com

TAGGED: AYA SOPHIA, CATHEDRAL, CHURCH, CONQUEST, CONSTANTINOPLE, FATIH, FETIH, HAGIA SOPHIA, HISTORY, MASJID, MEHMET, MOSQUE, MUHAMMAD, MUSEUM, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, TURKEY

Dr Yakoob Ahmed 28 Shw 43 ◦︎ 29 May 22 3 Hij 41 ◦︎ 24 Jul 20

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By Dr Yakoob Ahmed

Dr Yakoob Ahmed is a PhD graduate from SOAS, University of London. An Ottoman historian, he is currently teaching Islamic history at Istanbul University and was a visiting fellow at the Modern Turkish Studies Centre at Istanbul Şehir University. His research focuses are Muslim intellectual thought in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Islamic constitutionalism, identity, nationalism and collective memory construction.