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- Title
American Ottomans: Protestant Missionaries in an Islamic Empire's Service, 1820–1919 *.
- Authors
Gorman, Henry
- Abstract
The article explores the encounter between the Ottoman state and an influential community of U.S. Congregationalist and Presbyterian missionaries who worked in Syria from 1820 until 1919. U.S. missionaries in Syria complied with Ottoman political structures and provided services which furthered the Islamic Empire's goals while Ottoman officials provided them with both political protection and material support. The U.S. civil war shaped the missionaries' relationship with the Ottoman state by securing the missionaries' access to the capital. The empire's ambitious educational program made missionaries active participants in the Ottoman state's political projects as well as passive subjects of its religious system. The Sublime Porte treated the missionaries as friends and collaborators.
- Subjects
PROTESTANT missions; OTTOMAN Empire; PRESBYTERIAN missions; MISSIONARIES; SYRIAN history; CONGREGATIONALISTS; PRESBYTERIANS; HISTORY of the Islamic Empire; EDUCATIONAL programs; INTERNATIONAL relations; HISTORY
- Publication
Diplomatic History, 2019, Vol 43, Issue 3, p544
- ISSN
0145-2096
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/dh/dhz005