The orphan scandal : Christian missionaries and the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood / Beth Baron.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014Description: xxi, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780804790765 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0804790760 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780804791380 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0804791384 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • BV 3570 .B37 2014
Contents:
Prologue : the Turkiyya Hasan affair -- Part I. The best of intentions : evangelicals on the Nile. Forgotten children : caring for the orphaned and abandoned -- Winning souls for Christ : American Presbyterians in Cairo -- Speaking in tongues : Pentecostal revival in Asyut -- Nothing less than a miracle : the Swedish Salaam Mission of Port Said -- Part II. Unintended consequences : Islamists and the state. Fight them with their own weapons : the origins of the Muslim Brotherhood -- Combating conversion : the expansion of the anti-missionary movement -- Crackdown : suppressing the League for the Defense of Islam -- The battle for Egypt's orphans : toward a Muslim welfare state.
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Book Storms Research Center Main Collection BV 3570 .B37 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 98648535

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue : the Turkiyya Hasan affair -- Part I. The best of intentions : evangelicals on the Nile. Forgotten children : caring for the orphaned and abandoned -- Winning souls for Christ : American Presbyterians in Cairo -- Speaking in tongues : Pentecostal revival in Asyut -- Nothing less than a miracle : the Swedish Salaam Mission of Port Said -- Part II. Unintended consequences : Islamists and the state. Fight them with their own weapons : the origins of the Muslim Brotherhood -- Combating conversion : the expansion of the anti-missionary movement -- Crackdown : suppressing the League for the Defense of Islam -- The battle for Egypt's orphans : toward a Muslim welfare state.

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