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Artillery of heaven : American missionaries and the failed conversion of the Middle East
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- Creator
- Ussama Makdisi
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008
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- xi, 262 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780801446214, 080144621X
- OCLC
- ocn156902275
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [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
Subjects
- 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.