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"The true story of how an American couple paid the ultimate price because of their love of Muslim people"--Provided by publisher.
Carrie Taylor McDonnall joined the International Mission Board Service in 1999 and served in Israel, Jordan, Iraq, and other Middle Eastern countries. During that time, she met and married David McDonnall, a fellow relief worker in the Islamic world. They served together in Iraq doing humanitarian work until March 15 2004,...
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In "American Apostles," the Bancroft Prize-winning historian Christine Leigh Heyrman brilliantly chronicles the first fateful collision between American missionaries and the diverse religious cultures of the Levant. Pliny Fisk, Levi Parsons, and Jonas King became the founding members of the Palestine mission and ventured to Ottoman Turkey, Egypt, and Syria, where they sought to expose the falsity of Muhammad's creed and to restore these bastions of...
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Interchurch Press
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[1920]
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English
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Discuss the effects of World War I on Egypt, Syria, Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, and Persia, and analyzes post-WWI Middle East politics and culture. Most of it was written while great changes were happening (including the war for independence in Turkey), so the last chapter summarizes subsequent political events.
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American Society of Missiology monograph volume 30
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Pickwick Publications
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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In this book--part biography, part critical analysis--John Hubers introduces us to a man whose pioneering ministry in the Ottoman Empire has gone largely unnoticed since his memoir was penned in 1828, three years after his death in Beirut, by a seminary colleague. His name was Pliny Fisk, and he belonged to a cadre of New England seminary students whose evangelical Calvinism led them to believe that God was opening up a new chapter in the life of...