Artillery of heaven American missionaries and the failed conversion of the Middle East - Makdisi, Ussama Samir 1968- (Cornell University Press, 2008)
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