Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East
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 Prote...
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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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| spelling | Makdisi, Ussama Verfasser aut Artillery of Heaven American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East Ussama Makdisi Ithaca, N.Y. Cornell University Press [2007] © 2007 1 online resource txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier The United States in the World Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed May. 17, 2017) 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 In English American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (DE-588)118020-4 gnd rswk-swf Geschichte 1800-1900 Geschichte 1810-1860 gnd rswk-swf Geschichte Maronites Lebanon History 19th century Missions, American Lebanon History 19th century Missions, American Middle East History 19th century Religious pluralism Middle East History 19th century Mission (DE-588)4039567-4 gnd rswk-swf Naher Osten USA (DE-588)4078704-7 gnd rswk-swf Naher Osten (DE-588)4068878-1 gnd rswk-swf USA (DE-588)4078704-7 g Mission (DE-588)4039567-4 s Naher Osten (DE-588)4068878-1 g Geschichte 1810-1860 z 1\p DE-604 American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (DE-588)118020-4 b 2\p DE-604 https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801458989 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk 2\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
| spellingShingle | Makdisi, Ussama Artillery of Heaven American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (DE-588)118020-4 gnd Geschichte Maronites Lebanon History 19th century Missions, American Lebanon History 19th century Missions, American Middle East History 19th century Religious pluralism Middle East History 19th century Mission (DE-588)4039567-4 gnd |
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| title | Artillery of Heaven American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East |
| title_auth | Artillery of Heaven American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East |
| title_exact_search | Artillery of Heaven American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East |
| title_full | Artillery of Heaven American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East Ussama Makdisi |
| title_fullStr | Artillery of Heaven American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East Ussama Makdisi |
| title_full_unstemmed | Artillery of Heaven American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East Ussama Makdisi |
| title_short | Artillery of Heaven |
| title_sort | artillery of heaven american missionaries and the failed conversion of the middle east |
| title_sub | American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East |
| topic | American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (DE-588)118020-4 gnd Geschichte Maronites Lebanon History 19th century Missions, American Lebanon History 19th century Missions, American Middle East History 19th century Religious pluralism Middle East History 19th century Mission (DE-588)4039567-4 gnd |
| topic_facet | American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Geschichte Maronites Lebanon History 19th century Missions, American Lebanon History 19th century Missions, American Middle East History 19th century Religious pluralism Middle East History 19th century Mission Naher Osten USA |
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