Artillery of Heaven American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East

Name: Artillery of Heaven American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East
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ISBN: 9780801475757

ISBN-10: 0801475759

ISBN-13: 9780801475757

Edition: 2011

Authors: Ussama Makdisi

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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…

Book details

List price: $43.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 7/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English