Dr. Yakoob Ahmed

Dr. Yakoob Ahmed is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Theology (İlahiyat) at Istanbul University and a researcher at the Institute of Islamic Studies (ISAMER). He holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Languages and Cultures at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, where he also completed a Master’s degree in Near and Middle East Studies with a focus on Ottoman history and Turkish politics.

​Dr. Ahmed is the author of The Ottoman Ulema and the Quest for an Islamic Constitution: Revolution and Revelation (Edinburgh University Press), a major study re-examining the intellectual and political role of the Sunni ulema during the late Ottoman constitutional period. He is also the author of Why History Matters: Reviving Faith Through the Lens of History (Ketebe), which explores the relationship between historical consciousness, identity, and the renewal of Islamic thought in the modern age.
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His research focuses on Late Ottoman history, Muslim intellectual thought in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Islamic constitutionalism, nation-state formation, the intellectual history of the late Ottoman ulema, and questions of identity and collective memory. In addition to his academic work, Dr. Ahmed is a regular contributor to Middle East Eye and TRT World, where he writes on contemporary political and historical developments in the Muslim world.