5. An Arab Puritan

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Prelude
6. 1. Mather’s America 19
7. 2. “The Grammar of Heresy”: Coexistence in an Ottoman Arab World 32
8. Part II. Intersections
9. 3. The Flying of Time 51
10. 4. The Artillery of Heaven 72
11. 5. An Arab Puritan 103
12. Part III. Reorientations
13. 6. The Apotheosis of American Exceptionalism 141
14. 7. The Vindication of As’ad Shidyaq 180
15. Epilogue 214
16. Notes 221
17. Index 253