: American missionaries and the failed conversion of the Middle East
/ Ussama Makdisi.
Ithaca
: Cornell University Press
, 2008.
xi, 262 p.
: ill., maps
; 24 cm.
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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Shidyaq, Asad,1798-1830.
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.