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Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East (The United States in the World) by American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.;Makdisi, Ussama Samir;Shidyāq, Asʻad is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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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 c
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- Author
- American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.;Makdisi, Ussama Samir;Shidyāq, Asʻad
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780801475757
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Religion, Christian
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