Faithful Encounters: Authorities and American Missionaries in the Ottoman Empire Volume 281

by Emrah Sahin

By the early twentieth century, there were close to two hundred American missionaries working in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. They came in droves as early as 1830, organizing hundreds of schools, hospitals, printing presses, and seminaries. Until now, the missionaries' sources and perspectives have dominated discussions of this moment in history, but the experiences of the Ottoman authorities are just as, if not more, revealing of an increasingly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773554629
• ISBN13: 9780773554627
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"