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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... captivity in the Muslem countries of North Africa . Tyler's novel , however , is not exclusively the story of the captivity of Dr. Updike Underhill in Algiers ; this occupies only a part of Book Two . The rest deals with Underhill's ...
... captivity in the Muslem countries of North Africa . Tyler's novel , however , is not exclusively the story of the captivity of Dr. Updike Underhill in Algiers ; this occupies only a part of Book Two . The rest deals with Underhill's ...
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... captivity in the Muslem states of north Africa . Even while some of the writers were still in captivity , their letters were published in America . This was the case of the letters of Captains Pen- rose and M'Shane which were included ...
... captivity in the Muslem states of north Africa . Even while some of the writers were still in captivity , their letters were published in America . This was the case of the letters of Captains Pen- rose and M'Shane which were included ...
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... captivity , and the treatment they received at the hands of the " Barbary Corsairs " and African tribes , resulted in the association of Islam with cruelty and barbarism . Descriptions of such experiences in captivity gave a general ...
... captivity , and the treatment they received at the hands of the " Barbary Corsairs " and African tribes , resulted in the association of Islam with cruelty and barbarism . Descriptions of such experiences in captivity gave a general ...
Contents
A Place for My People | 1 |
The Star in the West | 15 |
The Prophets Progress | 27 |
Copyright | |
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