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What a Muslim folk trickster can teach us about the danger of holding a single worldview

  • Written by Perin Gürel, Associate Professor of American Studies, University of Notre Dame
What a Muslim folk trickster can teach us about the danger of holding a single worldviewA man wearing a Nasreddin Hoja costume poses with children during Eid al-Fitr at Sunnyside Gardens Park in New York.Volkan Furuncu/Anadolu via Getty Images

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller told CNN in January 2026 that “we live in a world … that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by...

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