05762cam a2200913Ma 4500 ocn726824184 OCoLC 20200709060024.0 m d cr cn||||||||| 070717s2008 nyuab ob 001 0 eng d E7B eng pn E7B OCLCQ DKDLA OCLCQ JSTOR N$T COO YDXCP OCLCO OCLCF IDEBK EBLCP OCLCQ OCL OCLCQ AGLDB OCLCQ MERUC IOG DEGRU EZ9 OCLCQ OCLCO P@U 740885534 764556553 768666976 987934068 992549853 1016814116 9780801458989 (electronic bk.) 0801458986 (electronic bk.) 080144621X 9780801446214 9780801475757 10.7591/9780801458989 doi 673674 (N$T) (OCoLC)726824184 (OCoLC)740885534 (OCoLC)764556553 (OCoLC)768666976 (OCoLC)987934068 (OCoLC)992549853 (OCoLC)1016814116 22573/ctt4s8xf JSTOR a-le--- aw----- BV3210.L4 M35 2008eb HIS036040 bisacsh REL 045000 bisacsh 266/.0237305692 22 MAIN Makdisi, Ussama Samir, 1968- Artillery of heaven : American missionaries and the failed conversion of the Middle East / Ussama Makdisi. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008. 1 online resource (xi, 262 pages) : illustrations, maps. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda The United States in the world Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record. Mather'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 Asʻad Shidyaq. The complex relationship between America and the Arab world goes back further than most people realize. 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. In English. Master record variable field(s) change: 050 Shidyāq, Asʻad, 1798-1830. American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Shidyāq, Asʻad, 1798-1830. fast (OCoLC)fst00350622 American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. fast (OCoLC)fst00515262 Missions, American Lebanon History 19th century. Missions, American Middle East History 19th century. Religious pluralism Middle East History 19th century. Maronites Lebanon History 19th century. Christianity and other religions Islam. Islam Relations Christianity. HISTORY United States 19th Century. bisacsh RELIGION Christian Ministry Missions. bisacsh Christianity. fast (OCoLC)fst00859599 Interfaith relations. fast (OCoLC)fst01353343 Islam. fast (OCoLC)fst00979776 Maronites. fast (OCoLC)fst01010394 Missions, American. fast (OCoLC)fst01023860 Religious pluralism. fast (OCoLC)fst01094200 Lebanon. fast (OCoLC)fst01206063 Middle East. fast (OCoLC)fst01241586 1800-1899 fast Electronic books. History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628 Print version: Makdisi, Ussama Samir, 1968- Artillery of heaven. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008 (DLC) 2007029232 United States in the world. EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=673674 De Gruyter DEGR 9780801458989 EBL - Ebook Library EBLB EBL3137927 ebrary EBRY ebr10457548 EBSCOhost EBSC 673674 ProQuest MyiLibrary Digital eBook Collection IDEB cis31329905 YBP Library Services YANK 11974154 YBP Library Services YANK 3713253 Project MUSE MUSE muse58420 92 N$T 54228 54228