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100 1 _aMakdisi, Ussama Samir,
_d1968-
_eauthor.
_928559
245 1 0 _aArtillery of heaven
_h[electronic resource] :
_bAmerican missionaries and the failed conversion of the Middle East /
_cUssama Makdisi.
300 _axi, 262 pages :
_billustrations, maps, portraits ;
_c24 cm.
336 _aText
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aComputermedien
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _aOnline Resource
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aUnited States in the world
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 221-251) and index.
505 0 _aMather's America -- "The grammar of heresy" : coexistence in an Ottoman Arab world -- The flying of time -- The artillery of heaven -- An Arab puritan -- The apotheosis of American exceptionalism -- The vindication of As°ad Shidyaq.
520 1 _a"In Artillery of Heaven, Ussama Makdisi presents a foundational American encounter with the Arab world that occurred in the nineteenth century, shortly after the arrival of the first American Protestant missionaries in the Middle East. He tells the dramatic tale of the conversion and death of As'ad Shidyaq, the earliest Arab convert to American Protestantism. The struggle over this man's body and soul - and over how his story might be told - changed the actors and cultures on both sides." "In the unfamiliar, multireligious landscape of the Middle East, American missionaries at first conflated Arabs with Native Americans and American culture with an uncompromising evangelical Christianity. In turn, their Christian and Muslim opponents in the Ottoman Empire condemned the missionaries as malevolent intruders. Yet during the ensuing confrontation within and across cultures an unanticipated spirit of toleration was born that cannot be credited to either Americans or Arabs alone. Makdisi provides a genuinely transnational narrative for this new, liberal awakening in the Middle East and the challenges that beset it." "By exploring missed opportunities for cultural understanding, by retrieving unused historical evidence, and by juxtaposing for the first time Arab perspectives and archives with American ones, this book counters a notion of an inevitable clash of civilizations and thus reshapes our view of the history of America in the Arab world."--Jacket.
542 _nAll rights reserved.
600 1 0 _aShidyåaq, As°ad,
_d1798-1830.
_928560
610 2 0 _aAmerican Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
_928561
650 0 _zLebanon
_xHistory
_y19th century.
_928562
650 0 _zMiddle East
_xHistory
_y19th century.
_928563
650 0 _zMiddle East
_xHistory
_y19th century.
_928563
650 0 _zLebanon
_xHistory
_y19th century.
_928562
650 0 _xIslam.
650 0 _xRelations
_xChristianity.
_94408
650 0 _xRelations
_xIslam.
_928564
655 4 _aElectronic books.
830 0 _aUnited States in the world.
_928565
830 0 _aACLS Humanities E-Book.
_928566
856 4 0 _zVolltext
_uhttps://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb09274
975 _c9780801458989
_q(ebook)
942 _cEB
500 _aE-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal
653 _aMissions, American
653 _aMissions, American
653 _aReligious pluralism
653 _aMaronites
653 _aChristianity and other religions
653 _aIslam
653 _aChristianity
264 _aIthaca :
_bCornell University Press,
_c2008.
041 _aeng
500 _aAmerican Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about/
999 _c63702
_d63702