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American apostles : when evangelicals entered the world of Islam /

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 th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Heyrman, Christine Leigh
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2015]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Missions > Middle East > History > 19th century.
Protestant churches > Missions > History > 19th century.
Missions, American > Middle East > History > 19th century.
Missionaries > United States > Biography.
Missionaries.
Missions.
Missions, American.
Protestant churches > Missions.
Middle East.
United States.
1800 - 1899
Biography.
History.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.