History of the Arabian Mission.

MASON (Rev. Alfred DeWitt). & BARNY (Rev. Frederick J.).

History of the Arabian Mission.

MISSIONARY WORK IN THE GULF

First edition. Frontispiece map and twenty-two black and white photographic illustrations on fifteen plates. 8vo. Original green cloth, spine gilt; minor wear to extremities, corners slightly bumped, otherwise very good. Crossed out ownership inscription to front free endpaper. 256pp. New York, Board of Foreign Missions, Reformed Church in America, 1926.

£650.00

MASON (Rev. Alfred DeWitt). & BARNY (Rev. Frederick J.).

History of the Arabian Mission.

A detailed history of missionary work in southern Iraq and the Persian Gulf. It includes fascinating early photographs taken at the five main stations of the Arabian Mission: Basra, Amarah, Bahrain, Kuwait and Muscat.

Growing interest in foreign missions gripped American Protestantism at the turn of the twentieth century, resulting in far-flung endeavours such as the Arabian Mission, which was established by the Reformed Church in America in 1889. Mason and Barny tell the story of its first decades, outlining the creation of its initial stations, and their schools and hospitals. Though much of their writing shows a strong (and sadly predictable) bias against Islam and the social structures they encountered, the text contains valuable sketches of places occasionally visited but seldom inhabited by Westerners, such as Bahrain and Kuwait. The short accounts of trips undertaken by the Mission’s doctors are also interesting, especially those taken inland to Riyadh at the behest of Ibn Saud (see ‘Opening the Interior’, p.196-199).

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