Islam and Arabs in Early American Thought: Roots of Orientalism in AmericaAcorn Press, 1991 - 244 páginas This book chronicles the dreams, illusions and aspirations of American missionaries, world travellers and national leaders, from colonial times forward, as they sought to establish "an American Israel" in the Holy Land. In their dispositions the reader can glimpse the battleground for Christian Americans and Middle Eastern Moslems in succeeding centuries. The author brings insights from his own religious roots to complement his grasp of the American phenomena which produced Orientalism. He traces the fundamentalist movements and national philosophies which influenced Americans to view themselves as the "Chosen People" and to extend their missionary resolves to the policy of "Manifest Destiny." Thus the future of American-Arab relations in the Middle East was set upon antithetical paths. |
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... York , boast that by this menace the American mission was the only one that got its money ! 74 The ultimate goal of the missionaries was to convert the entire world to their religion . This tendency was based , as the missionaries saw ...
... York , boast that by this menace the American mission was the only one that got its money ! 74 The ultimate goal of the missionaries was to convert the entire world to their religion . This tendency was based , as the missionaries saw ...
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... York writes to his mother on February 13 , 1842 , telling her that he visited the American cemetery in Jerusalem and that on Mount Zion he visited the Tomb of David and " prayed by the graves of W. Costigan who lost his life at the Dead ...
... York writes to his mother on February 13 , 1842 , telling her that he visited the American cemetery in Jerusalem and that on Mount Zion he visited the Tomb of David and " prayed by the graves of W. Costigan who lost his life at the Dead ...
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... York Times , March 29 , 1955 . 14. The Constitution of the American Bible Society ( New York , 1816 ) , 13. The same tendency to see the hand of Providence in the political events and in Inde- pendence led Samuel West to say in 1776 ...
... York Times , March 29 , 1955 . 14. The Constitution of the American Bible Society ( New York , 1816 ) , 13. The same tendency to see the hand of Providence in the political events and in Inde- pendence led Samuel West to say in 1776 ...
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A Place for My People | 1 |
The Star in the West | 15 |
The Prophets Progress | 27 |
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