The Missionary Herald, Reports From Ottoman Syria 1819-1870 ( FIVE VOLUMES)

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ix 523 pp/467 pp/ 507 pp/ 397 pp/ 316 pp, 3 maps, end paper drawings, index. HARD BACK Binding in dust wrappers. Set in Mint condition. New Royal Institute For Inter-Faith Studies, Amman, 1995. "Scholars have long recognised the importance of the Syria Mission station reports as prime source material for the history of Ottoman Syria in the nineteenth century. These historical documents preserve a wealth of information on Syrian political affairs and social and cultural developments during a period when the countries of the Near East were beginning to experience the impact of the West. _x000d_ Sent from different cities, towns and villages of a land whose territory was ultimately to be divided between Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Palestine/Israel, the reports in question were originally published in The Missionary Herald: a Journal first issued in 1805 as the official organ of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (also in Boston). The authors of the reports were Protestant missionaries, mostly Presbyterians or Congregationalists from New England. All of them were university or college graduates knowledgeable in various subjects, conversant in Arabic and highly observant of the workings of a society of which they often managed to gain intimate - though not always sympathetic - knowledge._x000d_ Extracted from the pages of The Missionary Herald, the Syria Mission station reports are reproduced in the present five-volume publication, supplemented with a chronology and missionary list, and fully indexed." (Preface).