Dr. Yakoob on Why History Matters || NBF 519 || Dr Shadee Elmasry: Safina Society - Dec 9, 2025

 YouTube Video: "Why History matters? Reviving Faith through lens of History" -Dr. Yakoob Ahmed.Interview with Shaykh Dr. Shadee Elmasry

https://www.youtube.com/live/2s7SbTbSYks?si=bd-rGOmsItPCPG8j

Mecca Books:"Why History matters? Reviving Faith through lens of History" -Dr. Yakoob Ahmed

https://www.meccabooks.com/products/why-history-matters-reviving-faith-through-the-lens-of-history

About The Book

Can history serve as a source of meaning, belonging, and direction for Muslims today?

In this timely and accessible work, Dr Yakoob Ahmed presents a compelling case for reviving historical consciousness as both an intellectual and spiritual imperative. Drawing from the Qur'an, Sīrah, and the Islamic tradition, he explores how history nurtures īmān, informs ethical knowledge production, and cultivates a living connection to the ummah across time.

Engaging themes from theology and civilisation to imagination and storytelling, Why History Matters? addresses the challenges Muslims face in approaching the past, while offering a methodology rooted in tradition and open to academic insight.

A vital resource for students, educators, and readers seeking to reconnect the past with the present and envision a future shaped by principled understanding.

Dr. Yakoob Ahmed Biography:

Dr. Yakoob Ahmed is currently an Assistant Professor at Istanbul University’s Ilahiyat (Theology) department as well as a researcher at the Institute of Islamic Studies (ISAMER) at Istanbul University. He holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Languages and Cultures, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) - University of London. He also graduated from the same institution with a Master’s degree in Near and Middle East Studies, focusing 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. Dr. Ahmed is also a regular contributor for Middle East Eye and TRT World where he has written about several subjects.

Source:https://alqasas.org/pages/instructors

Why History Matters? The Journey of my first book. Yakoob's Musings

"An Invitation to Conversation:
This book, then, is a conversation starter. It’s not a finished argument. It’s the beginning of a dialogue between academics, students, scholars, and readers who care about the future of Islamic thought.
Even the style in which I’ve written it — reflective, conversational, personal — is intentional. It’s the way I teach, the way I think, and, in many ways, the way I pray.
Insha’Allah, the book will be released in the coming weeks, with launches planned in London, possibly Turkey and the United States, ahead of Ramadan.
I wrote it as a form of sadaqah jariyah — a continuous charity. I wrote it for the Muslim reader, with sincerity, with care, and with love for this ummah, for this vocation, and for Allah Ta‘ala.
And if nothing else, I hope that comes across.
Thank you all for all your support, I hope that you find some benefit in what I have written, inshallah."

https://yakoob.substack.com/p/why-history-matters?utm_source=%2Fbrowse%2Fhistory&utm_medium=reader2