Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East
(Part of the The United States in the World Series and The United States in the World Series)
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:080144621X
ISBN13:9780801446214
Release Date:January 2008
Publisher:Cornell University Press
Length:280 Pages
Weight:1.15 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.4" x 9.0"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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