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American Ottomans: Protestant Missionaries in an Islamic Empire’s Service, 1820–1919*
Diplomatic History ( IF 0.730 ) Pub Date : 2019-03-20 , DOI: 10.1093/dh/dhz005
Henry Gorman

This essay explores a complex, changing encounter between the Ottoman state and an influential community of American Congregationalist and Presbyterian missionaries who worked in Syria over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The missionaries’ own accounts present the history of their relationship with the world’s most powerful Islamic empire, where they lived and worked, as a saga of struggle and unmitigated hostility. In 1921, Charles Dana, a managerial missionary who took care of finances for the American Mission Press in Beirut, recapitulated decades of his colleagues’ anti-Ottoman rhetoric when he wrote that “The American Press has in its century of service been forced to fight its way up through countless discouraging reverses, through wars, massacres, pestilence, and famine, and the vicissitudes of the Turkish Empire. Its buildings and grounds have . . . been the only shelter for the thousands of refugees, fleeing from the fire and sword of the despotic Turk.” His phrases echo a century

中文翻译:

美国奥斯曼帝国:为伊斯兰帝国服务的新教传教士,1820-1919*

本文探讨了奥斯曼帝国与十九世纪和二十世纪初在叙利亚工作的美国公理会和长老会传教士的有影响力社区之间复杂的、不断变化的遭遇。传教士自己的叙述将他们与世界上最强大的伊斯兰帝国的关系历史呈现出来,他们在那里生活和工作,作为斗争和无休止的敌意的传奇。1921 年,负责管理贝鲁特美国传教士出版社财务的管理传教士查尔斯·达纳 (Charles Dana) 回顾了他同事几十年来的反奥斯曼言论,他写道:“美国出版社在其服务的世纪中被迫战斗它经历了无数令人沮丧的逆转,经历了战争、屠杀、瘟疫和饥荒,以及土耳其帝国的沧桑。它的建筑物和场地都有。. . 是逃离专制土耳其人的火与剑的成千上万难民的唯一避难所。” 他的话回响了一个世纪
更新日期:2019-03-20
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