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Sarah and her Sisters
When newly married Sarah Smith arrived in Beirut in 1834, she was appalled by the ignorance and ill treatment of Arab women and girls. Well educated for her times, she was not content just to keep house for her missionary husband. Rather, having taught Mohegan Indians in Connecticut, she, in her two remaining years, opened a small school for girls that began the transformation of education for Arab females. Sarah’s pioneering venture inspired a series of Protestant “sisters,” married and single, to follow in her wake as missionary teachers. Leaving loved ones and the comforts of home behind, they crossed two perilous seas, learned Arabic, and against great odds continued her work in el...
Welsh Lady from Canaan
The incredible adventures of Margaret Jones, a lady from Rhosllannerchrugog who became famous in nineteenth-century Wales as the 'Welsh Lady from Canaan' as a result of her travels on five continents. She published two books about her travels in Canaan and Morocco. Her letters from Jerusalem appear in this book alongside an account of her extraordinary life.
German Religious Women in Late Ottoman Beirut
In German Religious Women in Late Ottoman Beirut. Competing Missions, Julia Hauser offers a critical analysis of the German Protestant Kaiserswerth deaconesses’ orphanage and boarding school for girls in late Ottoman Beirut as situated within the larger field of educational development in the city. Drawing, among other sources, on the deaconesses’ largely unpublished letters home, her study illuminates that the only way missionary organizations like the deaconesses' could succeed was by entering into negotiations with their local environment, adapting their agenda in the process. Mission, therefore, was shaped not merely at home, but by conflictual negotiations on the periphery ‒ a perspective quite different from the top-down isolationist perspective of earlier research on missions.
Y Gymraes o Ganaan
Hanes rhyfeddol Margaret Jones, merch o Rosllannerchrugog a ddaeth yn enwog yng Nghymru'r bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg fel 'y Gymraes o Ganaan' yn sgil y ffaith iddi deithio i bedwar ban byd a threulio cyfnodau hir yn byw dramor. Cyhoeddodd ddwy gyfrol o'i hatgofion, Llythyrau Cymraes o Wlad Canaan (1869) a Moroco, a'r hyn a welais yno (1883).
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Taylour-Tonneys
55,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2002.
Protestants, Gender and the Arab Renaissance in Late Ottoman Syria
The Ottoman Syrians - residents of modern Syria and Lebanon - formed the first Arabic-speaking Evangelical Church in the region. This book offers a fresh narrative of the encounters of this minority Protestant community with American missionaries, Eastern churches and Muslims at the height of the Nahda, from 1860 to 1915. Drawing on rare Arabic publications, it challenges historiography that focuses on Western male actors. Instead it shows that Syrian Protestant women and men were agents of their own history who sought the salvation of Syria while adapting and challenging missionary teachings. These pioneers established a critical link between evangelical religiosity and the socio-cultural currents of the Nahda, making possible the literary and educational achievements of the American Syrian Mission and transforming Syrian society in ways that still endure today.
