Artillery of heaven : American missionaries and the failed conversion of the Middle East / Ussama Makdisi.
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TextSeries: The United States in the worldPublication details: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.Description: xi, 262 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN: - 9780801446214 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 080144621X (cloth : alk. paper)
- Shidyāq, Asʻad, 1798-1830
- American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
- Missions, American -- Lebanon -- History -- 19th century
- 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
- BV 3210.L4 MAK 22
- BV3210.L4 MAK M35 2008
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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.
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