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100 1 $aHeyrman, Christine Leigh,$eauthor.
245 10 $aAmerican apostles :$bwhen evangelicals entered the world of Islam /$cChristine Leigh Heyrman.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bHill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux,$c2015.
264 4 $c©2015
300 $a340 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPart one: American Orients -- The age of wonders -- "By the beard of Mahomet!" -- "A perfect romance" -- Part two: Jihad -- British connections -- "Our great weapon" -- Part three: Hegira -- Turning Turk -- An American Muslim -- Part four: The hidden man -- Epiphanies -- At the gates of Damascus.
520 $aIn "American Apostles," the Bancroft Prize-winning historian Christine Leigh Heyrman brilliantly chronicles the first fateful collision between American missionaries and the diverse religious cultures of the Levant. Pliny Fisk, Levi Parsons, and Jonas King became the founding members of the Palestine mission and ventured to Ottoman Turkey, Egypt, and Syria, where they sought to expose the falsity of Muhammad's creed and to restore these bastions of Islam to true Christianity. Not only among the first Americans to travel throughout the Middle East, the Palestine missionaries also played a crucial role in shaping their compatriots' understanding of the Muslim world. "American Apostles" brings to life evangelicals' first encounters with the Middle East and uncovers their complicated legacy. The Palestine mission held the promise of acquainting Americans with a fuller and more accurate understanding of Islam, but ultimately it bolstered a more militant Christianity, one that became the unofficial creed of the United States over the course of the nineteenth century. The political and religious consequences of that outcome endure to this day.
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