What If the Ottoman Empire Had Embraced the Printing Press?

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Published2 months ago
Duration1:50
Video IDh2psII3JC78
Languageen
CategoryNews & Politics
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Made for KidsNo
Video TypeYouTube Short

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Munira Mirza shares her bold historical "what-if" with Andrew Roberts: had the Ottomans not restricted Arabic-script printing, could Islam have undergone its own reformation — and defused centuries of resentment toward the West? A surprisingly optimistic counterfactual from the latest episode Secrets of Statecraft.

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