Islam and Arabs in Early American Thought: Roots of Orientalism in AmericaThis 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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... Zion portrayed in the present work of Dr. Sha'ban shows the depth of these beliefs which have now come to the fore in the context of the Arab - Israeli question . It reveals a dimension which has heretofore been eclipsed , or at least ...
... Zion portrayed in the present work of Dr. Sha'ban shows the depth of these beliefs which have now come to the fore in the context of the Arab - Israeli question . It reveals a dimension which has heretofore been eclipsed , or at least ...
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... Zion . These verses , however , represent only one of the early American poetic attempts at ar- ticulating its first and most lasting myth : that of a vision of America as the city on a hill.2 The Pilgrim Fathers and Zion Hill ...
... Zion . These verses , however , represent only one of the early American poetic attempts at ar- ticulating its first and most lasting myth : that of a vision of America as the city on a hill.2 The Pilgrim Fathers and Zion Hill ...
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... Zion , and in Jerusalem , and before his ancients gloriously " ( xxiv , 23 ) .100 Recited by Barclay on Mount Zion , this clearly was no longer a dream of Mexico City or Salt Lake City as the New Jerusalem . It is , as Barclay and ...
... Zion , and in Jerusalem , and before his ancients gloriously " ( xxiv , 23 ) .100 Recited by Barclay on Mount Zion , this clearly was no longer a dream of Mexico City or Salt Lake City as the New Jerusalem . It is , as Barclay and ...
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A Place for My People | 1 |
The Star in the West | 15 |
The Prophets Progress | 27 |
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