The Western Christian Presence in the Russias and Qājār Persia, C. 1760-C. 1870.

Intro -- The Western Christian Presence in the Russias and Qājār Persia, c. 1760-c. 1870 -- Copyright -- Dedications -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Note on Transliteration and Style -- Maps -- Introduction -- 1 The Historical Backdrop -- 2 Forerunners of the Nineteenth-Century Missionary Presence (1): Catholic Missionaries and Apologists in the Early Qājār Era -- Don Leopoldo Sebastiani, Romano: Classical and Biblical Scholar, Orientalist, Missionary Apostolic in Turkish Arabia, Persia, Kabul, and Qandahar (1804-14), Intelligencer, and the Attempted Catholic Mission to Afghanistan (1804-10) -- Leopoldo Sebastiani's Mission to Persia (1803-08) -- Leopoldo Sebastiani and European Politics -- The Attempted Mission to Afghanistan (1804-c.09) -- Sebastiani's Sojourn in British India (1808-13) -- Sebastiani's Difficulties with Rome -- 3 Forerunners of the Nineteenth-Century Missionary Presence (2): Early Modern Evangelical Protestant Missionaries in Persia and Baghdad -- United Brethren Missionaries in Afshār Persia (1747-48) -- Henry Martyn, Missionary, Biblical Scholar and Apologist in India and Persia -- Anthony Norris Groves: Mission to the East (Baghdad 1829-33 and Persia) -- 4 The United Brethren Mission in Sarepta in the Ciscaucasus (c.1765-1892): The First Decades and Asiatic Russian Mission (c.1765-1822) -- Exploratory Journeys and Surveys among the Tatar Tribes of Mount Caucasus (1773-81) and Missionary Sojourns among the Kalmyk tribes in the Ciscaucasus (1815-22) -- Biblical Translations into Kalmyk -- Further Contacts with the Kalmyk Tribes -- 5 Scottish Missionaries of the Edinburgh Missionary Society and Independent Scottish Bible Missionaries (1802-35) in the North Caucasus -- John Love and Proposals for a Scottish Mission to Asia -- The Russian Context: Enlightenment Influences and Military Expansionism.

Henry Brunton and the Karass Mission -- Henry Brunton, Scripture Translation and Printing at Karass -- The Influence of Protestant Pietism and the Foundation of the Russian Bible Society (1812-24) -- 6 Scottish and Jesuit Missionaries in the North Caucasus and the Imperial Russian Dominions: Karass, Astrakhan, Mozdok, Orenburg, the Crimea and Odessa (1805-30s) -- The Exploratory Journey of Ebenezer Henderson and John Paterson for the RBS -- Jesuit Missions Established during the Nineteenth Century within the Expanding Russian Empire -- The Jesuit Mission at Mozdok -- The Suppression of the Jesuits in Imperial Russia -- Karass, Astrakhan, Orenburg and Vladikavkaz (c.1815-23) -- The Crimea: Katti Girei and the Short-Lived SMS Mission Post -- Beginnings of William Glen's Caucasian and Persian Ministry -- Captain Peter Gordon, Itinerant Independent Missionary (1820) -- Conversion of Mīrzā Muḥammad ʿAlī Alexander Kāẓim-Beg (1802/3-70) -- The Astrakhan Mission and William Glen (1821-30) -- John Melville of Odessa: Bible Missionary and Distributor in the Russias (1820s-c.75) -- The End of the Karass Mission -- Concluding Remarks on the Scottish Missionaries -- 7 Basel (1833-37) and Scottish (1847-52) Bible Missionaries in the Caucasus, Transcaucasus and Persia -- Joseph Wolff's Sojourn in Georgia -- Basel Missionary Evangelistic Practices -- Difficulties at Shūsha -- Preparations for the Persian Mission and the Composition of Pfander's Mīzān al-ḥaqq -- Apologetical Content of the Mīzān al-ḥaqq -- Further Basel Missionary Travels among Muslims and Armenians -- The Basel Persian Mission (1832-33) and Founding of the Mission in Tabriz (1833-34) -- Friedrich Haas and the Mission Post in Tabriz -- Haas's Encounter with Persian Life and Culture -- The High Point of the Basel Mission Station in Tabriz -- Conflict between Haas and the Basel Committee.

Russian Imperial Decrees Order the Closure of the Shūsha Mission -- The Nascent Persian Mission -- Pfander's Description of the Persian and Turkish Worlds -- The Basel Mission to Persia winds up (1837) -- William and Andrew Glen, Scottish Bible Missionaries in Persia (1847-52) -- 8 'The Nestorian Mission' (1833-69) of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in Azarbaijan and Kurdistan -- Background to the Early Nineteenth-Century American Protestant Missionary Movements -- Background to the Nestorian Mission -- Armenians in Tabriz and Tehran in the Early Nineteenth Century -- East Syrian Christian Antecedents to the Modern Missionary Era -- Background to and Establishment of the ABCFM Mission in Urmia (Urmi) Azarbaijan -- Education, Revivalism, Printing and Clashing Ideologies, 1835-70 -- The Evangelical-Nestorian Separatist Movement -- Bible Translation Work and Printing -- American Protestant Clashes with Persian Nestorianism -- 'Mission to the Mohammedans' (1834-41) -- Mission to the 'Independent' or 'Mountain' Nestorians (1839-51) -- Persian Government Interference and the Last Years of the ABCFM Mission -- 9 The Lazarist (Vincentian) Mission (1838-70): The Catholic Mission in Urmia (Urmi), Persian Azarbaijan and Tehran -- Historical Antecedents: Saljuqs, Mongols and Tīmūrids -- Intellectual and Cultural Interchanges between East and West -- Hospitallers, Humanitarian and Christian Orders and the First Western Missionaries to the East -- Origins of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists, Vincentians) -- The Madame de Ricouart Foundation -- The First Treaty between France and Persia (1708) -- France and Vincentian Missionary Expansion (1780-1804) -- Diplomatic Mission of General Claude Mathieu de Gardane to Persia (1807-09) -- Role of Eugène Boré (1838-41): Initiator and Catalyst of the Vincentian Mission.

The First Lazarist Pioneers: Ambroise Fornier, Joseph Darnis and Augustin Cluzel -- The Arrival of the Daughters of Charity (1856) -- The First Sojourn of the Mechitarists (1856-64) -- Statistical Survey of the Vincentian Mission (1842-59) -- Comte de Challaye's Report on the State of Catholic and Protestant Missions in Persia (1854) -- Augustin Cluzel (1815-82), Head of the Vincentian Mission (1858) and Apostolic Delegate in Persia (1874-82) -- 10 Persian Jews: Western Contacts and Missions (1811-90s) (1): Historical Perspectives: Early History of the Persian Jews, Persian and Western Intellectual Interaction with European Jews, and Missions to the Jews in Europe and Persia -- Missions to Jews Contextualised -- Early Nineteenth-Century Missions to Persian Jews -- Joseph Wolff: Missionary Extraordinary to the Jews and Muslims -- Joseph Wolff's Mission to Bukhārā (1843-44) -- Departure from Tabriz via Constantinople to London -- Jacob Samuel (c.1800-c.40): Intrepid Convert Missionary in Turkish Arabia, Persia and India -- 11 Persian Jews: Western Contacts and Missions (1811-c.90s) (2): The Mission to Baghdad, Mesopotamia and Persia (1844-90s) of the London Society for the Promotion of Christianity among the Jews -- Missionary Work of John Henry Brühl (1823-93) and Other Jewish Converts to Christianity -- Evaluation -- 12 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- I Manuscript Sources -- II Printed Sources -- A Sources in Persian and Arabic -- B Principal Printed Works in European Languages -- C Other Printed Works in European Languages -- Index.

Winner of The 2018 Saidi-Sirjani Book Award The Western Christian Presence in the Russias and Qājār Persia, c.1760-c.1870 recalls two long neglected European and North American missionary ventures in the Caucasus and Imperial Persia. It investigates the activities of Protestant and Catholic missionaries and provides valuable insights on the social and political backdrop of their experiences.

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