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001			ocn774379501
003			OCoLC
005			20180516151233.0
008			120130s2009 nyuab b 001 0 eng c
010			_a 2007029232
020			_a9780801475757 (pbk.)
020			_a0801475759 (pbk.)
020			_a9780801446214 (cloth : alk. paper)
020			_a080144621X (cloth : alk. paper)
035			_a(OCoLC)774379501
040			_aALAUL _cALAUL _dBTCTA _dYDXCP _dCBC _dCDX _dVRC _dCWI _dDEBBG _dBDX _dLGV
100	1		_aMakdisi, Ussama Samir, _d1968-
245	1	0	_aArtillery of heaven : _bAmerican missionaries and the failed conversion of the Middle East / _cUssama Makdisi.
246	3	0	_aAmerican missionaries and the failed conversion of the Middle East
250			_a1st Cornell paperback.
260			_aIthaca : _bCornell University Press, _c2009.
300			_axi, 262 p. : _bill., maps ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext
337			_aunmediated
338			_avolume
490			_aThe United States in the world
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [221]-251) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction ---- 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		_a"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	1	0	_aShidyāq, Asʻad, _d1798-1830.
610	2	0	_aAmerican Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
650		0	_aMissions, American _zLebanon _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aMissions, American _zMiddle East _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aReligious pluralism _zMiddle East _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aMaronites _zLebanon _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aChristianity and other religions _xIslam.
650		0	_aIslam _xRelations _xChristianity.
830		0	_aUnited States in the world.
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999			_c42014 _d42014