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Akbar's Chamber - Experts Talk IslamThe Muslim World: The History of an IdeaWhether in newspaper articles, books, or conversations about Islam, the ‘Muslim world’ is a commonplace term. Yet it was only coined in the late nineteenth century, and didn’t gain wider currency till the 1920s. Moreover, the ‘Muslim world’ wasn’t even a Muslim invention. In this episode, we trace the history of this term which, over the course of a century, came to serve many different purposes when it was taken up by a range of political and religious figures, Muslim and non-Muslim alike. We begin by asking how Muslims thought about geography before this new term was invented, th...2025-05-011h 00
Imagining TurkeyRe-imagining Turkey with Cemil Aydin and The Idea of the Muslim WorldIn this first episode, we are having Prof. Cemil Aydin from UNC. Join us in our inaugural episode as we delve into the rich tapestry of Turkey's history, its current dynamics, and the prospects for its future with the esteemed Professor Cemil Aydin from the University of North Carolina. In this engaging conversation, we center our discussion around Prof. Aydin's illuminating book, "The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History." "The Idea of the Muslim World" serves as a guiding thread throughout our conversation, unraveling the intricate intellectual history that has influenced Turkey's perceptions and interactions with...2024-02-0144 min
Asian Studies CentrePan-Nationalist Notions of Rights, Indian Khilafat Movement and the Treaty of Lausanne (1923)Talk by Cemil Aydin from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Cemil Aydin (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 6 June 2022. For queries, please contact seminar convenors at saih@history.ox.ac.uk.2022-09-2250 minAsian Studies CentrePan-Nationalist Notions of Rights, Indian Khilafat Movement and the Treaty of Lausanne (1923)Talk by Cemil Aydin from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Cemil Aydin (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 6 June 2022. For queries, please contact seminar convenors at saih@history.ox.ac.uk.2022-09-2250 min
International History NowEpisode 3: Cultural Crises in the Pandemic: Hagia Sophia as a MosqueHosts: Dina Gusejnova, Georgios GiannakopoulosGuests: Cemil Aydin, Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel HillMarc David Baer, Professor of International History at the London School of EconomicsMusic:Yavuz Akyazıcı, Renkli Rüyalar Oteli, from his Album Turkish Standards, vol. 2https://archive.org/details/yavuzakyazicisendendahaguzel/Yavuz+Akyaz%C4%B1c%C4%B1+-+Renkli+R%C3%BCyalar+Oteli.mp3Hacı Arif Bey (1831-1885), ‘Güzel Gün Görmedi Avare Gönlüm’, performed by Ahmet Özhan,at Community Audio https://archive.org/details/huzzam/Guzel+gun+gormedi+avare+gonlum.mp3 Erdogan waves goodbye to Kemalism--the end of the pos...2020-07-3152 min
EU TodayGlobal BrexitThis podcast features Professors Susan Pennybacker and Cemil Aydin, organizers of the spring 2019 Global Brexit panel and Lost Futures conference at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. They share reflections on the conference, its themes, and the academic research produced from it. The events were supported by the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence, housed at the UNC-CH Center for European Studies. Our interviewer is Mark Reeves, a PhD candidate in the UNC-CH Department of History.2019-09-1335 min
POMEPS Middle East Political Science PodcastThe Idea of the Muslim World: A Conversation with Cemil Aydin (S. 5, Ep. 38)How did the idea of a unified global Muslim community come about? That's the question Cemil Aydin and Marc Lynch tackle in this week's podcast. Aydin's new book explores the how the world's 1.5 billion Muslims have become seen as a single religious/political bloc.
"In many ways, I wanted to engage with the contemporary discussions of Muslim unity, Muslim solidarity or Muslim exceptionalism by going back to the last 200 years to try to understand the genealogy and the roots of the idea of Muslims constituting a global community and a shared political project," says Aydin, an associate professor of history...2017-06-2623 min
Ottoman History PodcastA Short History of the Ertuğrul | Michael Talbot & Cemil AydınMichael Talbot offers a short history of a late Ottoman goodwill mission to Japan followed by commentary by Cemil Aydin
Recorded by Michael Talbot in Yokohama, Japan2017-05-1616 min
Ottoman History PodcastThe Idea of the Muslim World | Cemil AydınE313 | In political discourses today, the “Muslim world” is evoked in a variety of contexts, ranging from pan-Islamic visions of political unity to a set of racist generalizations that present roughly a fifth of the world’s population as a monolithic whole. But as our guest in this episode, Cemil Aydın explains in his new book The Idea of the Muslim World, the very notion of a Muslim world is recent and requires historicization. In this episode, we explore the imagining of the Muslim World as a concept, tracing its early origins in the history of colonialism and the late Ot...2017-05-1654 min
New Books in Islamic StudiesCemil Aydin, “The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History” (Harvard UP, 2017)Almost daily in popular media the Muslim World is pinpointed as a homogeneous entity that stands separate and parallel to the similarly imagined West. But even scratching the surface of the idea of a Muslim World reveals the geographic, social, linguistic, and religious diversity of Muslims throughout the world. So what work is performed through the employment and use of this phrase? And in what context did the idea of the Muslim World emerge?
Cemil Aydin, Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, tackles these questions in his wonderful new book...2017-05-011h 07
New Books in GeographyCemil Aydin, “The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History” (Harvard UP, 2017)Almost daily in popular media the Muslim World is pinpointed as a homogeneous entity that stands separate and parallel to the similarly imagined West. But even scratching the surface of the idea of a Muslim World reveals the geographic, social, linguistic, and religious diversity of Muslims throughout the world. So what work is performed through the employment and use of this phrase? And in what context did the idea of the Muslim World emerge?
Cemil Aydin, Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, tackles these questions in his wonderful new book...2017-05-011h 07
The Harvard BriefCemil Aydin, “The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History” (Harvard UP, 2017)Almost daily in popular media the Muslim World is pinpointed as a homogeneous entity that stands separate and parallel to the similarly imagined West. But even scratching the surface of the idea of a Muslim World reveals the geographic, social, linguistic, and religious diversity of Muslims throughout the world. So what work is performed through the employment and use of this phrase? And in what context did the idea of the Muslim World emerge?Cemil Aydin, Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, tackles these questions in his wonderful new book...2017-05-011h 07