Christians Under the Crescent in Asia: New Introduction by David Malick 9781463211448

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CHRISTIANS U N D E R T H E CRESCENT I N ASIA

CHRISTIANS UNDER THE CRESCENT IN

ASIA.

By THE KEY. E. L. CUTTS, B.A., Hon. D.D., Universitf op the South U.S.; Author of " Turning Points of English Church History " and of " General Church History"

PUBLISHED tTNDER T H E DIRECTION OF T H E COMMITTEE 0 7 GENERAL LITERATURE AMD EDUCATION, APPOINTED BY T H E SOCIETY T O E PEOKQTINO CHRISTIAN

KNOWLEDOE.

A GORGIAS PRESS 2006

First Gorgias Press Edition, 2006. Copyright © 2006 by Gorgias Press LLC. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States of America by Gorgias Press LLC, New Jersey. This edition is a facsimile reprint of the original edition published by The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London.

ISBN 1-59333-405-2

This edition is based on digitized images kindly provided by Mr. David Malick.

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Introduction By David Malick Christians under the Crescent in Asia is the account of a journey among the Assyrians in Turkey and Persia in 1876. The author, Edward L. Cutts, was sent on a mission of inquiry by the Archbishop of Canterbury in response to petitions from Assyrians to the Church of England requesting the establishment of a mission to open schools among them in order to bring about their educational and spiritual renewal. The full context and the results of this mission, including the subsequent establishment of the Archbishop of Canterbury's Mission to the Assyrian Christians, are admirably detailed by J. F. Coakley in The Church of the East and the Church of England (Oxford, 1992). The importance of making this book more widely available to Assyrians and non-Assyrians alike is two-fold. This book serves as primary source material for a very important period in Assyrian history which also happens to suffer from the fact that few other sources survive. While we are fortunate that modern studies of the period exist, it is always profitable to have access to the primary sources to help evaluate studies based upon them and mine them for more information. Secondly, this book contains detailed descriptions of life and customs that have all but disappeared. During this period, the Assyrians were still living in their original homelands. Their economic and political situation was sometimes better and sometimes worse, but the horrific events of 1915-1918 were still far off and it is tempting to read this book and imagine what might have been if genocide and exile could have been avoided.

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