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Muhammad in the Seminary

Protestant Teaching about Islam in the Nineteenth Century

By: David D. Grafton

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Muhammad in the Seminary

Protestant Teaching about Islam in the Nineteenth Century

By: David D. Grafton

Uncovers what Christian seminaries taught about Islam in their formative years Throughout the nineteenth century, Islam appeared regularly in the curricula of American Protestant seminaries. Islam was not only the focus of Christian missions, but was studied as part of the history of the Church as well as in the new field of comparative religions. Moreover, Arabic was taught as a cognate biblical language to help students better understand biblical Hebrew. Passages from the Qur’an were sometimes read as part of language instruction. Christian seminaries were themselves new institutions in the nineteenth century. Though Islam had already been present in the Americas since the beginning of the slave trade, it was only in the nineteenth century that the American public became more aware of Islam and had increasing contact with Muslims. It was during this period that extensive trade with the Ottoman empire emerged and more feasible travel opportunities to the Middle East became available due to the development of the steamship. Providing an in-depth look at the information about Islam that was available in seminaries throughout the nineteenth century, Muhammad in the Seminary examines what Protestant seminaries were teaching about this tradition in the formative years of pastoral education. In charting how American Christian leaders’ ideas about Islam were shaped by their seminary experiences, this volume offers new insight into American religious history and the study of Christian-Muslim relations.

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NYU Press

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1479831468

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9781479831463

An American Biblical Orientalism

The Construction of Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Nineteenth-Century American Evangelical Piety

By: David D. Grafton

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An American Biblical Orientalism

The Construction of Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Nineteenth-Century American Evangelical Piety

By: David D. Grafton

An American Biblical Orientalism: The Construction of Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Nineteenth-Century American Evangelical Piety examines the life and work of Eli Smith, William McClure Thomson, and Edward Robinson and their descriptions of the “Bible Lands.” While there has been a great deal written about American travelogues to the Holy Lands, this book focuses on how these three prominent American Protestants described the indigenous peoples, and how those images were consumed by American Christians who had little direct experience with the “Bible Lands.” David D. Grafton argues that their publications (Biblical Researches, Later Biblical Researches, and The Land and the Book) profoundly impacted the way that American Protestants read and interpreted the Bible in the late-nineteenth century. The descriptions and images of the people found their way into American Bible dictionaries, theological dictionaries, and academic and religious circles of a growing bible readership in North America. Ultimately, the people of late Ottoman society (e.g. Jews, Christians and Muslims) were essentialized as the living characters of the Bible. These peoples were fitted into categories as heroes or villains from biblical stories, and rarely seen as modern people in their own right. Thus, in the words of Edward Said, they were “orientalized.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1978704879

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9781978704879

The Contested Origins of the 1865 Arabic Bible

Contributions to the Nineteenth Century Nahḍa

By: David D. Grafton

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The Contested Origins of the 1865 Arabic Bible

Contributions to the Nineteenth Century Nahḍa

By: David D. Grafton

This study examines the history of an Arabic Bible translation of American missionaries in late Ottoman Syria. Comparing the history of this project as recorded by the American missionaries with private correspondence and the manuscripts of the translation, The Contested Origins of the 1865 Arabic Bible provides new evidence for the Bible’s compilation, including the seminal role of Syrian Christians and Muslims. This research also places the project within the wider social-political framework of a transforming Ottoman Empire, where the rise of a literate class in Beirut served as a catalyst for the Arabic literary renaissance (Nahḍa), and within the international field of New Testament textual studies.

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289

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BRILL

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9004307109

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9789004307100

Piety, Politics, and Power

Lutherans Encountering Islam in the Middle East

By: David D. Grafton

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Piety, Politics, and Power

Lutherans Encountering Islam in the Middle East

By: David D. Grafton

From the time of Martin Luther's writing of On War Against the Turk in 1529 to American Lutheran military chaplains serving in the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, Lutheranism has had a symbiotic relationship with Islam in the Middle East, framed across cultural and religious borders. There have been those who have crossed these borders to engage in mission and dialogue. In Piety, Politics, and Power, David Grafton examines the origins of the American Lutheran missionary movement in the Middle East, with a focus on its encounter with Muslims and the varied Lutheran theological responses toward Islam. The narrative is placed within historical contexts to provide an overarching background of Middle Eastern history and Christian-Muslim Relations. The survey covers Lutheran missionary communities in Persia, Iraq, Egypt, Lebanon, and Jerusalem and the West Bank, including the work of the Lutherans working for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missionaries, the Anglican Church Missionary Society, the Lutheran Orient Mission, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Whether enthusiastic Pietists seeking the conversion of Muslims and Jews; cautious theologians in dialogue with Islam, Judaism, or Oriental Orthodoxy; or social activists working on behalf of refugees in Egypt and the West Bank, Grafton argues that these Christian missionaries were all enmeshed in the politics of the communities in which they lived, and either contributed to or suffered from the realities of Middle Eastern and international politics. Given the current reality of Pax Americana in the Middle East, the author asks the driving question about the role of American Lutheran missions and Lutheran-Middle Eastern Muslim dialogue in the age of American power in the Middle East.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1606081306

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9781606081303

The Governance of Water Innovations

To Quench a Thirst

By: Feldman, David L.

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The Governance of Water Innovations

To Quench a Thirst

By: Feldman, David L.

Providing an extensive comparative and international study of water innovations and the issues that arise in their implementation, The Governance of Water Innovations analyses the technical, economic, health and environmental impacts of water innovations and their policy implications.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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180088205X

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9781800882058

Strangers in Yemen

Travel and Cultural Encounter among Jews, Christians and Muslims in the Colonial Era

By: David Malkiel

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Strangers in Yemen

Travel and Cultural Encounter among Jews, Christians and Muslims in the Colonial Era

By: David Malkiel

Strangers in Yemen is a study of travel to Yemen in the nineteenth century by Jews, Christians and Muslims. The travelers include a missionary, artist, scientist, rabbi, merchant, adventurer and soldier. The focus is on the encounter between people of different cultures, and the chapters analyze the travelers’ accounts to elucidate how strangers and locals perceived each other, and how the experiences shaped their perceptions of themselves. Cultural encounter is among the most important challenges of our time, a time of global migration and instant communication. Today, as in the past, history provides a valuable tool for illuminating the human experience, and this scholarly work stimulates us to contemplate the challenge of cultural encounter, for it affects us all.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110710641

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9783110710649

Piety, Politics, and Power

Lutherans Encountering Islam in the Middle East

By: David D. Grafton

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Lutherans Encountering Islam in the Middle East

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Muhammad in the Seminary

Protestant Teaching about Islam in the Nineteenth Century

By: David D. Grafton

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Protestant Teaching about Islam in the Nineteenth Century

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1479831476

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The Contested Origins of the 1865 Arabic Bible

Contributions to the Nineteenth Century Naha

By: David D. Grafton

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The Contested Origins of the 1865 Arabic Bible

Contributions to the Nineteenth Century Naha

By: David D. Grafton

This study examines the history of an Arabic Bible translation of American missionaries in late Ottoman Syria. Comparing the history of this project as recorded by the American missionaries with private correspondence and the manuscripts of the translation, David Grafton provides new evidence for the Bible's compilation, including the seminal role of Syrian Christians and Muslims. This research also places the project within the wider social-political framework of a transforming Ottoman Empire, where the rise of a literate class in Beirut served as a catalyst for the Arabic literary renaissance, and within the international field of New Testament textual studies.

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Brill Academic Publishers

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9004307079

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An American Biblical Orientalism

The Construction of Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Nineteenth-Century American Evangelical Piety

By: David D. Grafton

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An American Biblical Orientalism

The Construction of Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Nineteenth-Century American Evangelical Piety

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Book's by David D. Grafton

Muhammad in the Seminary

Muhammad in the Seminary

An American Biblical Orientalism

An American Biblical Orientalism

The Contested Origins of the 1865 Arabic Bible

The Contested Origins of the 1865 Arabic Bible

Piety, Politics, and Power

Piety, Politics, and Power

The Governance of Water Innovations

The Governance of Water Innovations

Strangers in Yemen

Strangers in Yemen

Piety, Politics, and Power

Piety, Politics, and Power

Muhammad in the Seminary

Muhammad in the Seminary

The Contested Origins of the 1865 Arabic Bible

The Contested Origins of the 1865 Arabic Bible

An American Biblical Orientalism

An American Biblical Orientalism

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