TY  - BOOK
AU  - Makdisi,Ussama Samir
TI  - Artillery of heaven: American missionaries and the failed conversion of the Middle East 
T2  - The United States in the world
SN  - 9780801458989
AV  - BV3210.L4 M35 2008eb
U1  - 266/.0237305692 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Shidyāq, Asʻad,
KW  - Šidyāq, Asʻad,
KW  - American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
KW  - fast
KW  - gnd
KW  - Maroniten
KW  - idszbz
KW  - Missions, American
KW  - Lebanon
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Religious pluralism
KW  - Maronites
KW  - Christianity and other religions
KW  - Islam
KW  - Relations
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Missions américaines
KW  - Liban
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 19e siècle
KW  - Christianisme
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - United States
KW  - 19th Century
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christian Ministry
KW  - Missions
KW  - Interfaith relations
KW  - Mission
KW  - amerikanische
KW  - Naher Osten
KW  - Geschichte 19. Jh
KW  - idsbb
KW  - Evangelische Kirche
KW  - Konversion (Relig.)
KW  - Libanon
KW  - Konversion
KW  - (Relig.)
KW  - Protestantische Kirche
KW  - Religiöse Verfolgung
KW  - Konversion (Religion)
KW  - Kulturkontakt
KW  - USA
KW  - Midden-Oosten
KW  - gtt
KW  - Amerikaner
KW  - Araber
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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
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