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Ussama Makdisi. Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008, 262 pages.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2015

Nurçin İleri
Nurçin İleri*
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Binghamton University
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New Perspectives on Turkey , Volume 41 , Fall 2009 , pp. 264 - 267
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1 “Of all the founding missionaries—Parsons, Fisk, Goodell, and Bird—he was the most comfortable in Arabic; by 1825 he could write in the language and expressed himself fluently in it […] King readily adapted his outer habits to gain admirers and converts. And yet for all his immersion in local culture, King was the most reluctant to compromise with it, and ultimately the least accommodating to its constraints.” (p. 101).

2 Butrus al-Bustani wrote an Arabic version of the story of Shidyaq's conversion and death, entitled “The Story of As'ad Shidyaq.” Like him, al-Bustani, was a Maronite who converted to Protestanism. (pp. 180-181).

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