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Karine Walther , Sacred Interests: The United States and the Islamic World, 1821-1921 (Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2014, $42.00). Pp. 480. isbn 978 1 4696 2539 3 .
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Karine Walther's Sacred Interests: The United States and the Islamic World, 1821-1921 explores the intersections between the histories of peoples and countries with which Americans interacted throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as the role of faith in shaping US foreign policy. The author uncovers the role played by Christians and Jews living in Islamic lands in exercising influence on American understandings of Islam. The book examines the rhetoric accompanying four historical moments, which shaped the US sentiment towards the Islamic world. In Part I, Walther examines the US and the Greeks and Bulgarians...