The life of Sultan Abdulhamid II

The life of Sultan Abdulhamid IIInstructor: Dr. Yakoob Ahmed Date times: January 11 March 8, Saturdays 10 AM 12 PM US Eastern Standard Time Course summary: Sultan Abdulhamid II, known as the pious Sultan, is one of the most popular Sultans ever studied in Ottoman History, yet equally one of the most controversial of the late period. The enigmatic Sultan was in power for 33 years, making him one of the longest ruling Sultans in Ottoman history. The Sultan is known for re emphasising

from its earliest form

Private reading and assignment work is also a key part of the learning students will undertake

Cold War and the direction of Turkish foreign policy

as a small beylic

The primary objective of this course is to learn the legal and political manifestations of Islam in the light of revelation (Qur’an and Sunnah)

and finally colonized

Caliph ʿUthmān

The Early Years of Mehmet II

April 20 - June 22

This 8-week course explores the transformation of the Ottomans from a small frontier beylik into a powerful empire

● The origin of the rightly guided caliphate term

the course charts the major arguments and thematic trajectories of Dr Ahmed’s book prior to its publication