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Join Professor Sevea Teran, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Harvard University, to discuss his essay Singapore’s Islamic Pasts: Alexanders in an Island Below the Winds, which explores Singapore’s first Islamic king, Iskandar Sahib, a descendant of the pre-Qur’anic prophet Iskandar Dhu al-Qarnayn. The essay traces the thirteenth-century Alexandrian-Abrahamic dynasty through Malay chronicles and oral histories, focusing on Singapore’s Islamic ‘Alexanders’ and the role of both Sufi masters and everyday community members in preserving these histories.