Item Detail
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26018
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1
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15
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English
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Muslims Under the Mormon Eye : Theology, Rhetoric, and Personal Contacts, 1830-1910
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Journal of Mormon History
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April 2016
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42
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2
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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61-94
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Beginning in the early twentieth century, as the LDS Church endeavored to open new mission fields, Mormons began to assert that Mohammad had received partial truths from God. However, Mormon views of Muslims expanded beyond the merely theological. Latter-day Saints also parlayed popular perceptions of Islam into potent critiques of religious sectarianism and American constitutionalism. In so doing, a coterie of Mormon officials and missionaries narrowed the rhetorical distance between themselves and Ishmael's kin. By imagining Muslims as both fellow sufferers, as well as militant protectors of God's chosen, these Latter-day Saints justified their own status as a "peculiar people," and also defended their first forays into the Near East. Seen as barbaric enemies in the mid-nineteenth century, Muslims would enter the twentieth as tentative allies in Mormon eyes. [From the article]
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