Artillery of heaven :

Makdisi, Ussama Samir, 1968-

Artillery of heaven : American missionaries and the failed conversion of the Middle East / Ussama Makdisi. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008. - xi, 262 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. - The United States in the world .

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 Asʻad Shidyaq.

9780801446214 (cloth : alk. paper) 080144621X (cloth : alk. paper)

2007029232


Shidyāq, Asʻad, 1798-1830.


American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.


Missions, American--History--Lebanon--19th century.
Missions, American--History--Middle East--19th century.
Religious pluralism--History--Middle East--19th century.
Maronites--History--Lebanon--19th century.
Christianity and other religions--Islam.
Islam--Relations--Christianity.

BV3210.L4 MAK / M35 2008

BV 3210.L4 MAK