Artillery of Heaven : American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East available on August 28 2024 from BiggerBooks for 13.69
Artillery Of Heaven: American Missionaries And The Failed Conversion Of The Middle East available on May 08 2022 from Indigo for 20.95
Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East (The United States in the World) available on February 02 2015 from Amazon for 18.36
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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.
^Makdisi, Ussama (2014). Artillery of Heaven : American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East, Cornell Univ Pr. BiggerBooks. ISBN 9780801475757 (revised Aug 2024)
^Artillery Of Heaven: American Missionaries And The Failed Conversion Of The Middle EastIndigo. ISBN 9780801475757 (revised May 2022)
^Ussama MakdisiArtillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East (The United States in the World), Cornell University Press. Amazon. ISBN 9780801475757 (revised Feb 2015)
