The Jesuits in Syria: 1625-1683
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"Based on extensive archival research, Mazin Tadros presents the first detailed analysis of the role of Jesuit missionaries in Bilad al-Sham. For students of the globalization of early modern Catholic missions, this book is indispensable."
—Nabil Matar, Professor of English, University of Minnesota, USA
This book examines cross-cultural encounters of the Jesuit missionary enterprise in early modern Southwest Asia. It analyzes the early mission to Syria, paying attention to the key interlocutors of the Jesuits and the many challenges they experienced in their exchanges with other Europeans, Ottoman officials, and Eastern Christians. It demonstrates that there was nominal Muslim-Christian dialogue and important relationships formed between the Jesuits and their Christian and Muslim hosts. The Jesuits in Syria shows that the Jesuits worked in a very complex environment, where competing factions of Europeans, European religious, Eastern Christians, Arab Muslims, Turkish officials, and Turkish Muslims, not to mention “renegades,” played important roles.
The book examines missionary correspondence and other complementary sources. It also contrasts the way that the Jesuits wrote about their efforts internally with how they addressed the same topics in “public” documents, either printed or manuscript. It shows that the Jesuits described Islam and Syria in several ways, depending on the nature of the sources. For internal audiences, they wrote of their challenges with Franciscans, French, and Venetian consular figures, and Ottoman officials. For the broader public, whether in Jesuit colleges or in print, they harped on the problems posed by “schismatics” and Muslims. In this way, this volume enriches the story of the early modern Mediterranean.
Mazin Tadros is Associate Professor of History at Georgia Gwinnett College, USA.
This book examines cross-cultural encounters of the Jesuit missionary enterprise in early modern Southwest Asia. It analyzes the early mission to Syria, paying attention to the key interlocutors of the Jesuits and the many challenges they experienced in their exchanges with other Europeans, Ottoman officials, and Eastern Christians. It demonstrates that there was nominal Muslim-Christian dialogue and important relationships formed between the Jesuits and their Christian and Muslim hosts. The Jesuits in Syria shows that the Jesuits worked in a very complex environment, where competing factions of Europeans, European religious, Eastern Christians, Arab Muslims, Turkish officials, and Turkish Muslims, not to mention “renegades,” played important roles.
The book examines missionary correspondence and other complementary sources. It also contrasts the way that the Jesuits wrote about their efforts internally with how they addressed the same topics in “public” documents, either printed or manuscript. It shows that the Jesuits described Islam and Syria in several ways, depending on the nature of the sources. For internal audiences, they wrote of their challenges with Franciscans, French, and Venetian consular figures, and Ottoman officials. For the broader public, whether in Jesuit colleges or in print, they harped on the problems posed by “schismatics” and Muslims. In this way, this volume enriches the story of the early modern Mediterranean.
Reveal the mentalities of European clergy as they adapted to the cultural norms of the Middle East Illustrates a complex portrayal of the inhabitants of the region during this period Explores the surprising capacity to engage with and appreciate the multifaceted cultures of the eastern Mediterranean
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“Based on extensive archival research, Mazin Tadros presents the first detailed analysis of the role of Jesuit missionaries in Bilad al-Sham. For students of the globalization of early modern Catholic missions, this book is indispensable.” (Nabil Matar, Professor of English, University of Minnesota, USA)
“Drawing on a wealth of archival and printed sources, Mazin's study provides a fascinating and nuanced look at the Jesuit mission in Syria in the 17th century. Private letters written by members of the order reveal both their unexpected engagement and friendships with local Muslims and indigenous non-Catholic Christians, and their struggles with fellow Catholics as they sought to establish their place far from home. Without ignoring the tensions that often marked the activities and goals of the Jesuit mission, Mazin also finds respect and curiosity mixed in with the usual polemic of more public writings--complicating rigid models of self and other or harmonious coexistence. This is a refreshingly human portrait of Jesuits, Arab Christians, and Ottoman citizens and rulers, which shows these individuals both maintaining and rising above their differences. Mazin's book adds complex and valuable new evidence to our picture of interactions between members of different faiths in this region and sheds new light on the Jesuit order as a whole.” (Nancy Bisaha, Professor of History, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York)
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