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Sep 2023
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Dr Uthman Lateef | Islamic History: Roma...

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About this episode

In this episode of the Blood Brothers Podcast, Dilly Hussain speaks with the prominent Islamic historian and author, Dr Uthman Lateef, of Sapience Institute. #BloodBrotherspodcast #Islamichistory #Ummah 

Topics of discussion include:

  • Quick fire Q&A on Islamic military leaders.
  • Quick fire Q&A on major battles in Islamic history. 
  • Making sense of Islamic history: Romanticisation and reality.
  • Was the past better than the present for the Ummah?
  • Fall of Jerusalem 1099, sacking of Baghdad 1258, and the abolition of the Ottoman Caliphate 1924 — how did these events impact the collective Muslim consciousness?
  • State of the Ummah, collective consciousness, and Islamic revival.

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