Receiving the promised blessing: Missionary reflections on Ishmae's (mostly female) descendants
The Arabian Mission of the Dutch Reformed Church set out in 1889 to introduce Christianity to the Muslims of the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula. The Mission failed in its efforts at proselytism, but persevered for 70 years providing medical and educational services. In the process, the Arabian missionar...
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Language: | English |
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[1998]
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Islam and Christian-Muslim relations
Year: 1998, Volume: 9, Issue: 3, Pages: 325-337 |
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Summary: | The Arabian Mission of the Dutch Reformed Church set out in 1889 to introduce Christianity to the Muslims of the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula. The Mission failed in its efforts at proselytism, but persevered for 70 years providing medical and educational services. In the process, the Arabian missionaries produced an historical record of culture and society especially about women that is unparalleled in any other available sources. These sources are both technical and dispassionate as well as up-close and highly personal, and are written with a point of view that tells us as much about the missionaries and their changing times as about men, women and society in the villages and towns of the Gulf, Hasa and Najd. |
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ISSN: | 0959-6410 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Islam and Christian-Muslim relations
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/09596419808721159 |