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The question whether Islam is compatible with American, or generally “Western”, values has now imposed itself on public debates, gaining more urgency and traction with every tragic act of terrorism committed in the name of Islam. In these debates Islamic identity is usually defi…

The dissertation presents a literary historical analysis of an early Ottoman Turkish narrative about Alexander of Macedon. Ahmedi wrote this Iskendername (Alexander narrative) in the late 14th century, the period of the emergence of Turkic political and literary culture in Anato…