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035    (OCoLC)903361871|z(OCoLC)898419556 
037    |bFarrar Straus & Giroux, C/O Mps 16365 James Madison Hwy,
       Gordonsville, VA, USA, 22942, (540)6727600|nSAN 631-5011 
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100 1  Heyrman, Christine Leigh. 
245 10 American apostles :|bwhen evangelicals entered the world 
       of Islam /|cChristine Heyrman. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bHill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus 
       and Giroux,|c2015 
300    340 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :|billustrations ;
       |c24 cm 
336    text|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-324) and 
       index. 
505 0  American Orients -- The age of wonders -- By the beard of 
       Mahomet! -- "A perfect romance" -- Jihad -- British 
       connections -- "Our great weapon" -- Hegira -- Turning 
       turk -- An American Muslim -- The hidden man -- Epiphanies
       -- At the gates of Damascus. 
520    In "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. 
648  7 1800 - 1899|2fast 
650  0 Missions|zMiddle East|xHistory|y19th century. 
650  0 Protestant churches|xMissions|xHistory|y19th century. 
650  0 Missions, American|zMiddle East|xHistory|y19th century. 
650  0 Missionaries|zUnited States|vBiography. 
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650  7 Missions.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01023771 
650  7 Missions, American.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01023860 
650  7 Protestant churches|xMissions.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01079897 
651  7 Middle East.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01241586 
651  7 United States.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204155 
655  7 Biography.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01423686 
655  7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628 
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