Artillery of heaven : American missionaries and the failed conversion of the Middle East

Publication Data

• Title Artillery of heaven : American missionaries and the failed conversion of the Middle East
• Author Ussama Samir Makdisi
• Publisher Cornell University Press
• Publication date 2008
• Publication location Ithaca
• Language English

Contents

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 Asʿad Shidyaq.

Topics

• Shidyāq, Asʿad, 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

Artillery of heaven : American missionaries and the failed conversion of the Middle East by Ussama Samir Makdisi. ISBN 9780801446214. Published by Cornell University Press in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.