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Artillery of heaven：American missionaries and the failed conversion of the Middle East

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Main Authors: Makdisi Ussama Samir 1968-
Published: Cornell University Press,
Publisher Address: Ithaca
Publication Dates: 2008.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: The United States in the world
Subjects:
Shidyāq > Asʿad > 1798-1830.
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
Missions, American > Middle East > History > 19th century
Religious pluralism > Middle East > History > 19th century
Maronites > Lebanon > History > 19th century
Christianity and other religions > Islam
Islam > Relations > Christianity
Missions, American > Lebanon > History > 19th century
Midden-Oosten
Carrier Form: xi, 262 p.: ill., maps, facsim. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9780801446214 (cloth : alk. paper)
080144621X (cloth : alk. paper)
Index Number: D871
CLC: D871.23
B979.971.2
Call Number: B979.971.2/M235
Contents: Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-251) 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 Asʿad Shidyaq.

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