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03511cam a2200445Ia 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
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ocn774379501 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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OCoLC |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20180516151233.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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120130s2009 nyuab b 001 0 eng c |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2007029232 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780801475757 (pbk.) |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0801475759 (pbk.) |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780801446214 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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| International Standard Book Number |
080144621X (cloth : alk. paper) |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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| System control number |
(OCoLC)774379501 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
ALAUL |
| Transcribing agency |
ALAUL |
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BTCTA |
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YDXCP |
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CBC |
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CDX |
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VRC |
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CWI |
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DEBBG |
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BDX |
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LGV |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Makdisi, Ussama Samir, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1968- |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Artillery of heaven : |
| Remainder of title |
American missionaries and the failed conversion of the Middle East / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Ussama Makdisi. |
| 246 30 - VARYING FORM OF TITLE |
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| Title proper/short title |
American missionaries and the failed conversion of the Middle East |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
1st Cornell paperback. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
Ithaca : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Cornell University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2009. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xi, 262 p. : |
| Other physical details |
ill., maps ; |
| Dimensions |
24 cm. |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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| Content Type Term |
text |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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| Media Type Term |
unmediated |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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volume |
| 490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT |
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| Series statement |
The United States in the world |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-251) and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Introduction ---- Part I. Prelude. 1. Mather's America --- 2. "The grammar of heresy" : coexistence in an Ottoman Arab world ---- Part II. Intersections. 3. The flying of time --- 4. The artillery of heaven --- 5. An Arab puritan ---- Part III. Reorientations. 6. The apotheosis of American exceptionalism --- 7. The vindication of Asʻad Shidyaq. |
| 520 1# - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
"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."-- BOOK JACKET. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Shidyāq, Asʻad, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1798-1830. |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME |
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| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element |
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Missions, American |
| Geographic subdivision |
Lebanon |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
19th century. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Missions, American |
| Geographic subdivision |
Middle East |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
19th century. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Religious pluralism |
| Geographic subdivision |
Middle East |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
19th century. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Maronites |
| Geographic subdivision |
Lebanon |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
19th century. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Christianity and other religions |
| General subdivision |
Islam. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Islam |
| General subdivision |
Relations |
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Christianity. |
| 830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE |
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| Uniform title |
United States in the world. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Library of Congress Classification |
| Item type |
Books |
