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03537aam a2200529 i 4500 001 1050755481F911E58D57CB8FDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20151103010200 008 150129t20152015nyuaf b 001 0deng 010 $a 2014047049 020 $a 0809023989 020 $a 9780809023981 035 $a (OCoLC)903361871 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d OCLCF $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d CGP $d JAI $d CDX $d GK8 $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- $a n-us--- 050 00 $a BV3160 $b .H48 2015 082 00 $a 266.0092/313056 $2 23 100 1 $a Heyrman, Christine Leigh, $e author. 245 10 $a American apostles : $b when evangelicals entered the world of Islam / $c Christine Leigh Heyrman. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $c 2015. 300 $a 340 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Part 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 $a 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. 650 0 $a Missions $z Middle East $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Protestant churches $x History $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Missions, American $z Middle East $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Missionaries $z United States $v Biography. 650 7 $a Missionaries. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01023720 650 7 $a Missions. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01023771 650 7 $a Missions, American. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01023860 650 7 $a Protestant churches $x Missions. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01079897 651 7 $a Middle East. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01241586 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1800 - 1899 $2 fast 655 7 $a Biography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423686 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 5 952 $l OZAX845 $d 20240525041331.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231021013859.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20210602012640.0 952 $l SOAX911 $d 20190223021542.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20160123011300.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1050755481F911E58D57CB8FDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search