Following the first European voyages of exploration to the New World, several Ottoman authors debated whether Alexander the Great may have already known of the American continent in classical antiquity. By exploring the contours of this previously unstudied intra-Ottoman debate, the present article challenges the prevailing scholarly view that sixteenth-century Ottoman writings about the Americas were at best frivolous and at worst incoherent. Instead, these texts engaged with many of the same questions provoked by the discoveries in contemporary Europe, while at the same time intersecting with the most profound and contested concerns of Ottoman statecraft.

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亚历山大大帝发现美洲了吗？在伊斯坦布尔文艺复兴时期辩论时空

在欧洲探索新大陆的第一次航行之后，几位奥斯曼帝国的作家争论亚历山大大帝是否在古代就已经知道美洲大陆。通过探索这一先前未研究过的奥斯曼内部辩论的轮廓，本文挑战了盛行的学术观点，即 16 世纪奥斯曼关于美洲的著作充其量是轻浮的，最坏的情况是不连贯的。相反，这些文本涉及当代欧洲的发现所引发的许多相同问题，同时与奥斯曼帝国治国术中最深刻和最有争议的问题相交叉。