{"product_id":"faithful-encounters-9780773554627","title":"Faithful Encounters","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA riviting and timely narrative of how Muslim authorities treated Christian missionaries in the final age of the Ottoman Empire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Faithful Encounters takes a close, detailed, and necessary look at the imperial and Islamic side of a seminal interaction with American missionaries in the late Ottoman world, without many of the pitfalls present in Islamist or nationalist books on this topic. Appraising hitherto little-used documentation in the Ottoman state archives, it gives intimate insights into the logics and rhetoric of an Istanbul-based Islamic Empire that was faced, from the early nineteenth century, with the challenge of a globe-oriented, egalitarian-minded millennialist mission springing from the United States.\" Hans-Lukas Kieser, University of Newcastle and University of Zuric\u003cbr\u003e\"Sahin's empirically rich book gives the Ottoman perspective on interactions between their government and the American missionaries. The main strength of Faithful Encounters lies in the many fascinating examples of Ottoman-missionary interactions that Sahin employs. Though he utilizes some missionary-produced material, the book is most groundbreaking when it uses evidence from the Ottoman archives.\" H-Net\u003cbr\u003e\"Faithful Encounters makes a major contribution to our knowledge. Governmental authorities were accommodating of missionary work in Istanbul and in larger cities such as Beirut, Latakia, and Damascus, possibly because of these locations' proximity to government control. But distant areas, especially eastern Anatolia, that were prone to public unrest, posed multiple problems.\" The Journal of American History","brand":"McGill-Queen's University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51534972223831,"sku":"9780773554627","price":36.77,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780773554627.jpg?v=1755858376","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/faithful-encounters-9780773554627","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}