# Dr. Yakoob Ahmed

**Title:** Guest Contributor
**Department:** Contributors
**Affiliation:** Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research
**URL:** https://yaqeeninstitute.org/team/yakoob-ahmed
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**Total works:** 1

## About
Dr. Yakoob Ahmed is a PhD graduate of the Department of Languages and Cultures, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He also graduated from the same institution with a Masters degree in Near and Middle East Studies with a focus on Ottoman history and Turkish politics. His research focuses are Late Ottoman History, Muslim intellectual thought in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Islamic constitutionalism, nation-state construction, ulema history of the Late Ottoman state, identity and collective memory construction.

## Topics
- [History](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/topic/history.md) (1)
- [Islamic Civilization](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/topic/islamic-civilization.md) (1)

## Papers (1)
- [Muslims’ Collective Amnesia of the Ottoman Past—and Why We Should Reclaim Our History](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/read/paper/muslims-collective-amnesia-of-the-ottoman-past-and-why-we-should-reclaim-our-history.md) (2019)