Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-194) and index.
Contents:
Early American Christians and Islam -- The Barbary wars, the last days, and Islam in early national America -- Foreign missions to Muslims in nineteenth-century America -- Samuel Zwemer, World War I, and "the evangelization of the Moslem world in this generation" -- The new missionary overture to Muslims and the Arab-Israeli crisis -- Christians respond to Muslims in modern America -- Maturing evangelical missions and war in the Middle East -- American Christians and Islam after September 11, 2001.
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