Title Artillery of heaven : American missionaries and the failed conversion of the Middle East / Ussama Makdisi.

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Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.

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Description	1 online resource (xi, 262 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	The United States in the world
	United States in the world.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 Asʻad Shidyaq.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Shidyāq, Asʻad, 1798-1830.
	Shidyāq, Asʻad, 1798-1830.
	American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
	American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
	Shidyq, Asad, 1798-1830.
	Missions, American -- Lebanon -- History -- 19th century.
	Missions, American.
	Lebanon.
	History.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Missions, American -- Middle East -- History -- 19th century.
	Middle East.
	Religious pluralism -- Middle East -- History -- 19th century.
	Religious pluralism.
	Maronites -- Lebanon -- History -- 19th century.
	Maronites.
	Christianity and other religions -- Islam.
	Christianity and other religions.
	Islam.
	Islam -- Relations -- Christianity.
	Relations.
	Christianity.
Chronological Term	1800-1899
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Makdisi, Ussama Samir, 1968- Artillery of heaven. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008 (DLC) 2007029232
ISBN	9780801458989 (electronic book)
	0801458986 (electronic book)
	080144621X
	9780801446214

Title Artillery of heaven : American missionaries and the failed conversion of the Middle East / Ussama Makdisi.

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