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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... described the new system in 1783 as a " recent political phenomenon of a new sovereignty arising among the soverign powers of the earth ... [ which ] should be attended to and contemplated by all nations . " 33 At about the same time ...
... described the new system in 1783 as a " recent political phenomenon of a new sovereignty arising among the soverign powers of the earth ... [ which ] should be attended to and contemplated by all nations . " 33 At about the same time ...
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... described the bedouins as " Moslem in name only ; they break every rule of the faith . " 46 He was at the same time very jealous of the efforts of the local authorities who sent teachers to the Bedouins in order to educate them in their ...
... described the bedouins as " Moslem in name only ; they break every rule of the faith . " 46 He was at the same time very jealous of the efforts of the local authorities who sent teachers to the Bedouins in order to educate them in their ...
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... described as " the most hand- some man . ' " 35 And at one point he watched the Arabs cook and eat their food offering quite a " pastoral " spectacle which evinced from him ex- pressions of tender sympathy despite his physical revulsion ...
... described as " the most hand- some man . ' " 35 And at one point he watched the Arabs cook and eat their food offering quite a " pastoral " spectacle which evinced from him ex- pressions of tender sympathy despite his physical revulsion ...
Contents
A Place for My People | 1 |
The Star in the West | 15 |
The Prophets Progress | 27 |
Copyright | |
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