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100 1 _aMakdisi, Ussama Samir,
_d1968-
245 1 0 _aArtillery of heaven :
_bAmerican missionaries and the failed conversion of the Middle East /
_cUssama Makdisi.
260 _aIthaca :
_bCornell University Press,
_c2008.
300 _a1 online resource (xi, 262 pages) :
_billustrations, maps.
336 _atext
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490 1 _aThe United States in the world
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
588 0 _aPrint version record.
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 Asʻad Shidyaq.
520 _aThe 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.
546 _aIn English.
590 _aMaster record variable field(s) change: 050
600 1 0 _aShidyāq, Asʻad,
_d1798-1830.
610 2 0 _aAmerican Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
600 1 7 _aShidyāq, Asʻad,
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610 2 7 _aAmerican Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
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650 0 _aMissions, American
_zLebanon
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aMissions, American
_zMiddle East
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aReligious pluralism
_zMiddle East
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aMaronites
_zLebanon
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aChristianity and other religions
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650 0 _aIslam
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650 7 _aHISTORY
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650 7 _aIslam.
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650 7 _aMaronites.
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650 7 _aMissions, American.
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650 7 _aReligious pluralism.
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651 7 _aLebanon.
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651 7 _aMiddle East.
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648 7 _a1800-1899
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655 4 _aElectronic books.
655 7 _aHistory.
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776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aMakdisi, Ussama Samir, 1968-
_tArtillery of heaven.
_dIthaca : Cornell University Press, 2008
_w(DLC) 2007029232
830 0 _aUnited States in the world.
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