The Orphan Scandal: Christian Missionaries and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood

by Beth Baron

Book Overview

On a sweltering June morning in 1933 a fifteen-year-old Muslim orphan girl refused to rise in a show of respect for her elders at her Christian missionary school in Port Said. Her intransigence led to a beating--and to the end of most foreign missions in Egypt--and contributed to the rise of Islamist organizations.

Turkiyya Hasan left the Swedish Salaam Mission with scratches on her legs and a suitcase of evidence of missionary misdeeds...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804791384
• ISBN13: 9780804791380
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"