Document Type
Review
Date of this Version
2008
Publication Source
Middle East Journal
Volume
62
Issue
3
Start Page
536
Last Page
537
Abstract
Lucid and elegantly written, Ussama Makdisi's Artillery of Heaven accomplishes two big things. First, while examining 19th century American missionary encounters in the Arab Ottoman territories, it presents a model for a new kind of transnational history that sheds light on American engagement with the world. Second, and at a time when much of the Arab past has been "effectively demarcated ... as a forbidden no-man's land" because of fear of what "divisive narratives" of the past may dredge up (p. 219), it scrutinizes the raw history of the "multi-religious world" in the Ottoman region that is now Lebanon.
Recommended Citation
Sharkey, H. J. (2008). Artillery of Fire: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East. Middle East Journal, 62 (3), 536-537. Retrieved from https://repository.upenn.edu/nelc_papers/23
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Comments
Heather J. Sharkey's review of Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East by Ussama Makdisi.
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