CONTENTS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION --- Heleen Murre-van den Berg -- SPIRITUALITY AND SCHOLARSHIP: THE HOLY LAND IN JESUIT EYES (SEVENTEENTH TO NINETEENTH CENTURIES) --- Bernard Heyberger and Chantal Verdeil -- WILLIAM MCCLURE THOMSON'S THE LAND AND THE BOOK (1859): PILGRIMAGE AND MISSION IN PALESTINE --- Heleen Murre-van den Berg -- LES FRANCISCAINS EN TERRE SAINTE: DE L'ESPACE AU TERRITOIRE, ENTRE OPPOSITION ET ADAPTATION --- Giuseppe Buffon -- THE COPTIC CATHOLIC CHURCH, THE APOSTOLIC VICAR MAXIMUS GIUAID (1821-1831), THE PROPAGANDA FIDE AND THE FRANCISCANS IN EARLY NINETEENTH-CENTURY EGYPT --- Anthony O'Mahony -- DANGER AND THE MISSIONARY ENTERPRISE: THE MURDER OF MISS MATILDA CREASY --- Nancy L. Stockdale -- PUBLIC SPACE AND PRIVATE SPHERES: THE FOUNDATION OF ST LUKE'S HOSPITAL OF NABLUS BY THE CMS (1891-1901) --- Philippe Bourmaud -- THE METAMORPHOSIS OF A PIETISTIC MISSIONARY AND EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION INTO A SOCIAL SERVICES ENTERPRISE: THE CASE OF THE SYRIAN ORPHANAGE (1860-1945) --- Roland Löffler -- DIE DEUTSCHEN KURDENMISSIONEN IN MAHABAD IN IHREM KONTAKT ZU DEN ORIENTALISCHEN CHRISTEN --- Martin Tamcke -- GERMAN "HOME MISSION" ABROAD: THE ORIENTARBEIT OF THE DEACONESS INSTITUTION KAISERSWERTH IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE --- Uwe Kaminsky -- AMERICAN PROTESTANT MISSIONARY BEGINNINGS IN BEIRUT AND ISTANBUL: POLICY, POLITICS, PRACTICE AND RESPONSE --- Habib Badr -- "MISSIONS IN EDEN": SHAPING AN EDUCATIONAL AND SOCIAL PROGRAM FOR THE ARMENIANS IN EASTERN TURKEY (1855-1895) --- Barbara J. Merguerian -- EVANGELIZATION OR EDUCATION: AMERICAN PROTESTANT MISSIONARIES, THE AMERICAN BOARD, AND THE GIRLS AND WOMEN OF SYRIA (1830-1910) --- Ellen Fleischmann -- MUSLIM RESPONSE TO MISSIONARY ACTIVITIES IN EGYPT: WITH A SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE AL-AZHAR HIGH CORPS OF 'ULAMÂ (1925-1935) --- Umar Ryad -- BIBLIOGRAPHY.

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